Chapter I: Front Matter

COPYRIGHT BY
FREDERICK FRANKLIN SCHRADER
1920

PUBLISHED BY
CONCORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
INCORPORATED

NEW YORK, U. S. A.

Illustration: Frederick Franklin Schrader (‡ signature)

“1683-1920”

The Fourteen Points and What Became of
Them--Foreign Propaganda in the Public
Schools--Rewriting the History of the
United States--The Espionage Act and
How it Worked--“Illegal and Indefensible
Blockade” of the Central Powers--1,000,000
Victims of Starvation--Our Debt to
France and to Germany--The War
Vote in Congress--Truth About
the Belgian Atrocities--Our
Treaty with Germany and How
Observed--The Alien Property
Custodianship--Secret Will
of Cecil Rhodes--Racial
Strains in American
Life--Germantown
Settlement of
1683

_And a Thousand Other Topics_

by

FREDERICK FRANKLIN SCHRADER

Former Secretary Republican Congressional Committee
and Author “Republican Campaign Text Book, 1898.”

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