The official report on the conduct of Sir Edgar Speyer
during the War was issued on Friday; January 6th. The Committee said that they were satisfied that Sir Edgar Speyer " had ceased to entertain any feeling of loyalty to His Majesty or affection for this country and that he desired (at least in the event of a German victory) to' substitute for British citizenship a German allegiance." It is pointed out that Sir Edgar Speyer shared with his brother-in-law, who was an enemy, the profits of trading with Germany and relinquished that partnership with obvious reluctance and on compulsion. He also made use of various expedients for evading the censorship and ho attempted to seduce his English partners into doing likewise. Immediately the report had been published, two of Sir Edgar Speyer's English partners wrote to protest against it and declared that in their opinion Sir Edgar Speyer was " incapable of any act of treachery against the country of his adoption."
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