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Title: A year as a government agent
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whitehouse, Vira (Boarman), Mrs., 1875-
Subjects: United States. Committee on Public Information Propaganda, American World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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scipline ofthe German army was breaking down. Someof these Swiss business men, who were Germanin sympathy, feared, now that it had started,it would go very fast. About this time one of the German democratshad information that trouble was brewing in theGerman navy and an outbreak beginning theremight be expected. We probably did not thenrealize the significance of this report. But later,after the signing of the armistice, when it wascommon gossip that the political revolution hadbegun in the German navy at Kiel, and that themovement there was of so determined a naturethat groups of sailors were sent about the coun-try to stir the civilians to action, I often thoughtof this early report and wondered how it had sopromptly reached the German exiles in Switzer-land. In September, when the Allies were advancing,I heard from an editor of a German-Swiss paperthat the severity of the German censorship andthe methods of its military propaganda had de-feated their own purpose and that the German
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THE AN. II .I.iKKKN I (KM. BERNE, SWITZERLAND The Approaching End 217 people had begun to discount all military andpolitical information and disbelieve everythingthey were told. To such an extent was this truethat in many of the more remote parts of theempire it was firmly believed that the Allieswere already on German ground. The general trend of this gossip, unreliable asmost of it was, seemed to show undoubtedlythat conditions in Germany were bad. Thisknowledge, taken in connection with the collapseof Bulgaria, the peace advances of Austria inSeptember, and the steady military victories ofthe Allies on the western front, led me to feel thatthe end of the war was near. I lost interest inthe military news; I found I could not even readit, and I seemed to myself to be holding mybreath, waiting for the way in which the finalpeace step would come. I began to feel that thework I had gone to Switzerland to do was over,and my thoughts turned insistently towardhome. Yet, when the request fo

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