Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28

ssbly augmented on the 10th
instant by the appearance in Berlin Of the
memoirs in two volumes Of thousand
pages OF more.
The vossische ZeitunR declares: ITO
speak frankly the publication IL the great
est political scandal that has been known
for a long time" And the Berliner Tage-
blatt says Of 1t: "A book Of sensation in
the realm Of politics and Of courts such as
had not appeared within the memory of
man in any German country" And the
Tageblatt continues These are merely su-
perfcial views. 1t is futile to deny that
the book is great performance. 1t en-
shrines a great personality. and the i'm
preston which Is constantly received in
perusing Its pages Is that this was a man
who. born to the highest station and with
all the advantages which others of his
class so often regard as the passports to a
lie Of seaf-indulsent ease. literally wore
himself to the bone in the service of his
country, in the service Of three German en-
perors, and Of that great but hard and in
confederate task master Prince Bismarck.
lohe's character and career are refuted by
the picture In the memoirs OF one of his
busy days as ambassador In Paris or as
plenfpotentiary at the Berlin conference.
have worn out much shoe leather'-he
must have wandered many q weary step
in the service Of his fatherland."
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The kaiser's surprise and anger over the
published extracts were understandable. He
addressed the following tele-
Aa1ser's gram to Prince Philippe Won
Anger. Hohenlohe:
II read with establishment
and indignation the publication of intimate
conversations between your father and my
self relative to the retirement Of Prince
Bismarck. How could such document be
given to the public without my previous
authorization I denounce such an act as
being the highest degree tactless, indis-
Greet and inopportune. For 1t is unheard
Of that events which concern the reignng
sovereign may be published without his
assent"
The text of the imperial dispatch as given
in the Journal de Prague was sensibly diff
ferent from the above. and said in these
Identical words: "Such publications may
precipitate political consequences impossible
to foresee." This expression, it appears,
was rectified by the semi-oftcial journal,
the Gazette du Nord. The German press
attributed the correction as having special
reference to a passage in the Memoirs in
which the kaiser Is represented as ready
to declare war against Russia even If al
lied to France, If Russia provoked Aus
tria by armed Intervention in Bulgaria. The
Gazette de Voss on this point declared that
the indignation of the emperor could be ex-
planned by the effect these revelations
would produce in Russia and in France,
and the same journal concludes that from
the incident 1.-The sovereign might learn
lesson Of exercising more prudence In his
conversations, which had often been the
cause of international complications.
1t does not appear clear why the kaiser
should have addressed his telegram to
Prince Philippe, when he must have known
that Prince Clovis had charged Professor
Curtius with the publication of his memoirs
at his death and that Prince Alexander Won
Hohenlohe had become the possessor of
the documents by inheritance.
Prince Clovis was in his seventy sixth
year when he yielded with reluctance to
the emperors desire to have him accept
the post Of chancellor He visited his pred
ecessor, Prince Won Bismarck, at Fried
richsruh, January IA, 1893. When Bis
marck had been thawed out by a., few
glasses of Mozelle he observed that his
Prussian 'fellow-junkers' had never for
given him for having risen above them in
becoming prince"
Prince Bismarck remarked to his sue
cessor with ill-concealed irony that AS
prince of the holy Roman empire he. would
have an easier time in this respect since
the junkers' would have no occasion to
envy him." adding the warning-t that
Prince Hohenlohe's position would be diff
f1cult by reason Of the sudden decisions OF
the emperor" $50
Prince Hohenlohe mentions his interview
with the car at Peterhof September IL.
1895: THE car said he had
Czar ana written Emperor William
England. that he had nothing against
his taking pied terre. or
coaling station, in China. 1 then mentioned
the Chusan Islands, which. however. the
English claimed: Yes said the emperor,
they always want to have everything for
themselves. When anybody takes any
thing the English at once want to take
much more, and he made gesture with
his arm He was at dinner at the Ger
cellor, said: I'VE really did Europe a
great service by taking up France. God
knows what these people might have gone
and done If we were not keeping them
refined in" and Prince Hohenlohe adds:
II find some truth in this" On October
II, 1895, the prince wrote his son Alexander:
1T is very curious the Way my relations
with the emperor are conducted. Now and
ton - (kleine Observation-Disclosures con-
vince me that he is Intentionally holding
aloof from me, and things cannot go on
like this. Then I have another little talk
with him and see that was mistaken"
The prince mentions the question of aug
mentation of the navy The emperor is in
favor of "schlachtflotte," or fighting fleet,
and he adds: Eat the time Of the bum
and we looked on and saw Austria and
Prussia fighting one another in the bun
destag, and the middle and small states
now took the one side, now the other. But
that did not satisfy the German people.
They wanted to be united and to play a
part in the world. The movement of 1913
was the first result, and then came the
reaction of the sos, but the German peo-
pie never abandoned it's aspirations. Then
came 1870 and German unity was welded
by blood and iron and the empire arose
amid the jubilation of the German people.
But 1t soon turned out that there was no
money to keep the German empire on its
legs"
The prince regrets, manifestly, the bum
destag, but he finally wants the "schlacht-
flotte'' bill to pass. The emperor's i'm
pulsive ways are disquieting. 1t would be
better II he were little more phlegmatic."
In spite Of his own defects ne, Prince H.,
is "the best possible chancellor"
The chancellor refers to M. Herbette, the
new French ambassador in Berlin, 1885, HE
wants to get Germany to
Germany and act with France in the
France. Egyptian and other quar-
tiers against England. Bis
marck thinks France too uncertain an ally
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