Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1920 — Called Himself an American. [ARTICLE]

Called Himself an American.

The blood in my veins is mingled, English, Scotch and Irish. With a somewhat similar ancestry, some years ago, Baron Speck von Sternburg, who \vas ambassador of Germany to the United States prior to the recent war, boasted himself an American. I was present at a banquet in Berlin one night when, responding to a personal toast, he rose and said: “My father was German, my mother was Scotch and I was born In England; that makes me an American.” The baron’s conclusion was received with more enthusiasm at that motnent than it would be today.—Melville E. Stone in Collier’s Weekly.