Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-26
KAISER MAKES
H|SPEACE WITH
CROWN PRINCE
Son Seems to Have Won His Fight
Over the Question of Han
overian Kingdom.
BY STEVEN BURNETT.
Special Gable to The American.

special SaDie TO ne american.
BERLIN, oct. 25.-That the Kaiser
should have become reconciled with
his oldest son, as he undoubtedly has,
for they are now seen together every
where, after all has not surprised US
very much, for we all know that at
the bottom of his heart the Kaiser has
a great admiration for his dashing
boy, who is so strongly human, so
charmingly young. that he captivates
all hearts, and in whom the Kaiser
sees so many of his own best quail
ties
What does surprise us, however. is
that many things seem to prove that,
regard to the Guelph question, the
Kaiser, ordinarily the most stubborn
of men, has come to look upon mat
ters through the glasses of the Crown
Prince, who is said to favor the resur-
rection of the old kingdom of Han
over. But, after all, there is really
nothing very surprising should the
tales of the Kaiser's change of mind
prove to be true.
Crown Prince Patriotic.
No one has ever doubted that the
strongest trait in the future Kaiser's
character is an almost exaggerated
patriotism, an all-pervading love OF
Germany and an irrepressible faith
in this country's great mission as a
colonizing and civiizing power.
The Crown Prince holds that to full
fill its great mission, Germany must
be absolutely united, socially as well
as politically, and the Guelph question
must therefore be settled In man
ner which will prevent it from crop
ping up again at an inconVenient
time.
The Crown Prince is firmly con-
WINGED that real sympathy between
the Prussians and the Hanoverians,
who are such great contrasts in many
WAYS, Is out of the question and that
a kingdom, happy and satisfied, under
a ruler closely allied to the Hohenzol-
lern family is far more valuable to
the empire than an always growing
and dissatisfied province of Hanover.
1t is said that this view is shared
by the Chancellor of the Empire,
Herr Won Bethmann- Hollweg, who Is
an old college friend OF the Kaiser
and who is said to have championed
the betrothal and marriage between
the Kaisers only daughter and Prince
Ernest August of Cumberland, wheh
all, including the Kaiser, were about
to give il up because the Prince would
not formally give up his claim to the
throne Of his ancestors.
Kaiser Yields Stiffly.
The Kaiser gave in, at the time
most unwillingly principally because
of his love of his daughter, who was
really in love with her present hus-
band, but even at the time of the
wedding he was still determined that
his son-in-law must yield before be-
coming the formal ruler of the Grand
Duchy of Brunswick. -
The change In mind on the part OF
the Kaiser will not be openly pro-
claimed, if for no other reason than
because he is too fond of posing as a
most stern and unbending character,
but Prince Ernest August will be per-
mitted to ascend the throne of Bruins
wick without formally giving up his
claims to the old kingdom of Han
over And then public opinion VIII
gradually be prepared for the change,
and at some opportunity, perhaps not
even during the lifetime of the pres
ent Kaiser. change will be made in
the constitution of Prussia which
will provide for the revival of the old
kingdom of Hanover.