"Germany may hesitate about being disarmed before knowing her fate but if she is to have a negotiated peace she must purge herself of Kaiserism and all it stands for."
of mistaken snap judgements and needless exuberance of invective." Frequently, Creel was attacked either for total irrelevancies or for sins he had not committed, he was accused of "Kaiserism," of "cynicism and insincerity." Well, he created the soil that was fertile to such accusations.