excerpt from the book..1. The Kaiser's Hatred of the United StatesIt is a proverb that things done in secret soon or late are publishedfrom the housetops.Certainly everything that was hidden as to the plots of the Potsdam gangis, little by little, now being revealed.Nothing illustrates this fact better than that volume published inLeipsic in 1907, called "Reminiscences of Ten Years in the GermanEmbassy in Washington, D. C."When that aged diplomat published the story of his diplomatic career hedoubtless thought that the volume prepared for his children andgrandchildren and friends was forever buried in the German language. Itnever even occurred to the Councillor of the Ambassador, von Holleben,that the book would ever fall into the hands of any American. The veryfact that an American author found the volume in a second-handbookstore of Vienna in 1914 and translated the three chapters on theKaiser's representatives in the United States and the organization ofthe German-American League, must have roused the Foreign Department inBerlin to the highest point of anger.