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To pry loose the American loans the Central Powers desperately needed, Schwarzwald proposes an unlikely lever: silver. His confidential memorandum, printed in Vienna two months into the war, tells the statesmen of Berlin and Vienna that Britain's command of the sea lanes and of finance gives the Entente a durable edge, and that only organized interest, not appeals to neutrality, will move the United States. A permanent pledge of free silver coinage would enrich American mining and banking groups while loosening London's grip. The coins, marked by metric weight, would circulate beside the untouched gold mark and crown at market value, a parallel currency he sharply severs from the discredited fixed ratios of bimetallism and defends, with precedents from Hamburg to China, as older and more honest money.
Das Mittel dazu ist die dauernde Freigabe unbeschränkten monetären Gebrauchs des Silbers.
English translation: “The means to that end is the permanent authorization of the unrestricted monetary use of silver.”