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Rh Von Holleben was recalled in disgrace by the Kaiser and dismissed from the Diplomatic Service.

There is one other interesting side light on this whole affair. In the American navy there were then as there are now many officers with German names and lineage. They were then as now patriotic Americans and Mr. Roosevelt took particular pains that in so far as their naval fitness allowed these men were in service on the battle fleet under Dewey so that the Kaiser might get the most unmistakable evidence that any dependence he placed on hyphenism here would cost him dear.

These matters, and many more—such as the thwarted effort of the Kaiser to establish a naval base at the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, and his abortive attempt to purchase two "private" harbours on the Pacific Ocean—these matters and many more constitute the working basis upon which American distrust of the protagonists of "Kultur" was built, long before the Lusitania. Those interested in