England and Germany in the War: Letters to the U.S. State Department by Former Consul Robert J. Thompson (1915)
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England and Germany in the War: Letters to the U.S. State Department by Former Consul Robert J. Thompson (1915)
Author: Thompson, Robert J.
Year: 1915
Thompson, Robert J. England and Germany in The War: Letters to the Department of State. Boston: Chapple, 1915. Contextual Background Published in 1915, this book is a series of open letters written by Robert J. Thompson, former U.S. Consul at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), Germany, during the initial months of World War I. Thompson, a Chicago businessman turned diplomat, resigned his post to freely express his views, claiming that State Department directives restricted his ability to investigate and report objectively on alleged atrocities and broader wartime conditions. His resignation followed an instruction from the U.S. Department of State ordering him to cease such investigations. The work was first serialized in the Chicago Tribune and then published in book form due to public interest. Thompson’s perspective is highly unusual for an American diplomat of the time: though of English descent and personally tied to both England and France (he had helped erect the Lafayette monument in Paris and was decorated by the French government), he became increasingly sympathetic to Germany’s position in the war. He openly criticized British diplomacy, arguing that England deliberately isolated
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