How are we to convince the American public of our
true aims and position? It must be remembered that the Ameri- cans are morbidly sensitive to anything in the nature of foreign propaganda, and that they have during the past twenty years been assured that it was British propaganda alone which dragged America into the First German War. Books have been written and institutions founded for the sole purpose of warning the citizens of the Great Republic against the spider-web of intrigue in which Great Britain hopes to ensnare them. This agitation has made a wide impression. Compared with the average American woman little Miss Muffet was a girl of the utmost heroism ; all she did was to remove herself rapidly from the vicinity of an actual spider, carrying her milk-slop with her ; the Ameri- cans continually see spiders where no actual spiders exist.
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