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Excerpt from Germany's Economic Power of Resistance
In February, 1916, the German Minister at Stockholm asked me, as a neutral economist, to visit Germany to study the economic and financial conditions in that country and embody the result of my observations and investigations in a public report.
Quite naturally, I hesitated before undertaking a task that must inevitably be attended by so many great difficulties, and the completely satisfactory performance of which was quite beyond the power of any one individual. But equally obvious was the fact that I had placed before me an opportunity for scientific study of which I could not refuse to take advantage. I answered, therefore, that I was prepared to accept the invita tion of the German Government on the condition that my journey was to be considered as one undertaken for purely scientific purposes, having as its sole object to make an objective investigation of things as they really were, and also that an opportunity should be given me of seeing all of the economic life of Germany that I might consider necessary for the execution of my purpose. The German Minister accepted these conditions without the least reservation and I started for Germany at the beginning of March.
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