Evening star., 1911-08-20

living. He has an appetite which he
freely INDUCES. with the, result that he
finds It necessary to go to Kissingen from
time to time to make a cure. as Bismarck
did in his day. In appearance he sug-
gests an imposing man exhaiing the idea
of savoir vivre. He is very punctilious
in matters of toilet and has a weakness
for fancy waiStcoats. Take these and his
cigars away from him, and he would
consider himself robbed of two of his
greatest pleasures in life.
Kiderlen- Waechter is fifty-nine years or
age. and has been connected with the
German foreign service all his life. He
did nothing particularly remarkable unt!i
the Balkan crisis. Even war 1st es, the
German who's who" has thus FAR dis-
posed Of his career i'm a dozen lines or SO.
He was born in Stuttgart. in Wurttem.
burg, where, by the way the social
democrats do not consider him as
prophet. When only eighteen years o.
age he volunteered for the war In 1SIC.
and when that struggle came to an end
he studied four years at Tubingen ana
Leipzig. Then followed a course of law.
and in 1879 he began his career in the
foreign service.
Served in st. Petersburg.
For three years he was secretary of the
German embassy in st. Petersburg. 1t
was lucky for him that his first appoint
ment should have been in the Russian
employed In Paris and Constantinople
the kaiser remembered when he made his
state visit to st. Petersburg, Stockholm
and Copenhagen, after his accession IN
1888. Kiderlen-Waechter accompanied
the kaiser on these Journeys.
The kaiser was greatly taken with hlln.
He admired his activity. his bluntness OF
speech, and was surprised at his general
knowledge KiderlenW Waechter proved
himself an admirable press agent and
organizer He discharged SO thoroushly
the duties which fell to him that the
emperor decided he should accom-
pany him on future Journeys.
kiderlen-W -Waechter now was nigh IN
imperial favor. He got his reward Tor
his personal service to the kaiser in the
Bucharest in 1900. Previously the only
other independent posts he occupied were
those of minister at Hamburg and Copen-
hagen. During the years he was In the
of doing things which vastly pleased the
kaiser.
Afraid of Nothing.
He stuck at nothing. Confident in his
own powers. no task frightened him.
Thus he went cheerfully to Constantine
pie and acted as relief ambassador, be-
sides keeping an eye on affairs at Bukha-
rest He had a hand in the coup d'etat
in Turkey, but his greatest and, indeed,
his only triumph was scored during the
Balkan trouble. His utterances during
this period appealed to the i, kaiser. f., ne te
the fore. and bullied and bluffed in the
true Bismarckian vein, talking OF shin,
mering armor' 'weltpolitik and
"machtfrage' in way which went 70
the kaiser's heart. There is no douos
in Germany that the transference OF
Bosnia and Herzegovina to Austria was
largely due to the efforts of Kiderlen-
Waechter.
The very high opinion which the kaiser
had formed of him was demonstrated IN
a striking fashion at the time when his
majesty was under a cloud consequent
on the publication of the famous inter-
view which made all the world wonder.
Herr Won Schoen, as he then was. oc-
cupied the position of foreign minister.
The publication of the interview came as
a great shock to him, and he fell Ill. a
strong man had to be got to fill his place.
Send for Kiderlen- Waechter, SAID the
kaiser before going into retirement. his
majesty had an idea that, between them.
Prince Won Buelow and kiderlen-Wa
ter would get him out of the dilemma In
which his indiscretion had placed MIN.
Prince Won Buelow promptly summoned
the favorte from Bucharest. His idea
was to make him foreign secretary.
Baron Won Schoen recovered from MS
shock, but Kiderlen- Waechter was very
comfortable at Wilhelmstrasse, and re-
mained at his post. 1t was while acting
in Baron Won Schoen's absence that he
was first brought into contact with his
antagonist Of the moment, Jules Cambon,
the French ambassador at Berlin.
French Ambassadors Impression.
In the light of what has happened since
those days, 1t is interesting to record the
impression which the French ambassa-
dor formed of the foreign secretary. The
matter to be adjusted was the casa
Blanca incident. NJ. Jules Cambon had
no fault to find with the way that Kider-
len-Waechter handled his business, and
he readily spoke in high praise OF his
methods. He next came In contact with
Kiderlen-Waechter as foreign secretary
in reality when the Moroccan agreement
of 1909 had to be drawn UP. Again NJ.
Jules Cambon was charmed with the
methods of precision which marked the
diplomacy of the German foreign secre-
tary.
But the French ambassador WIS des-
tined to change his view of the man who