"In this dark and fateful hour, the German nation needs the sympathy of the world, and particularly the United States, and this sympathy will not be withheld if the reorganization goes in an orderly manner."
Another New York German paper makes a strong bid for our sympathy for the poor Germans, so distressing with the aftermath of war. The New Yorker Herold says:
"The great upheaval in Germany, according to all the news at hand, has been as thorough as could possibly be imagined. The mood of the masses for a political change was so overwhelming and manifested itself with such force and directness that the classes which hitherto ruled and their representatives could not even dream of offering resistance. 