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By 1917 President Woodrow Wilson’s insistence that the U.S. stay out of the war was being assaulted on all sides. The Germans were aware the U.S. had increased aid to the British from $2 billion to $4 billion since the war’s beginning in 1914.
Thomas Kerl was an exemplary citizen, patriot and businessman who ran afoul of the Espionage Act of 1917 with tragic results. How could a Coeur d’Alene citizen be a WW I era spy for the Germans? What is there about his story that is still so important even for today?
Hundreds of anti-government and pacifist protesters rallied in the city of Lubmin.