Sounds hokey. Nothing of the sort googles up, except of course for this entry.
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume I, 1898-1922, edited by Valerie Eliot, p. 59, letter from T.S. Eliot to Conrad Aiken. At the end of the verse Eliot writes, "The poem was declined by several musical publishers on the ground that it paid too great a tribute to the charms of German youth to be acceptable to the English public."
I put the lines down here from memory and got it slightly wrong; the first two lines should be "Now while our heroes were at sea | They pass'd a German warship."
The internet is a big place, but Google isn't the be-all and end-all of human knowledge.