The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-29

1 influence swaying him was that of the Junker Landholders of East Prus- sia. Other people attribute 1t to the armament firms and the industrial or | ganizations allied to them. Nobody doubted that some secret and power ful force had selected the Crown Prince as a figure head, and nobody doubted that the object of this force was to ensure a more aggressive poli cy on the part of Germany toward other European nations.
 No other explanation seems possi- ble of the attitude of this Prince, whose every spontaneous action and word acquitted him of any interest in | high policy. Seeing him at close quarters, engrossed in coarse pleas ures, sport of a rough kind, malicious meddling with his brothers and cous- ins, hearing his vapid and pointless remarks about trivial affairs, I could not believe then that he cherished any ideas about German policy or German aims.
 In his personal quarrel with the Kaiser, which eliminated during my stay in Potsdam in the demonstration he made at the Reichstag and in his Iconsequent punishment to East Prus- sia, he had strong and influential SUD- port. No one who knew him credit ed him with brains enough to origi- nate the actions he performed, whereby he posed as a popular figure in the eyes of the Berein mob. In his public actions, and in all his re- lations with the Kaiser, he followed coursel of action, which was care- fully marked out for him by others, and in which he was carefully re- hearsed.
 In a word, he drew his inspiration from the people who were then call ed the War party. He was believed to draw also, from the same source, a large proportion of the money which he spent so recklessly during the per- iod of his revolt against the Kaiser. The puppet of others, he was the most brainless and unpleasant among kall the German princes with whom I came in contact. His brothers, his cousins, and his intimates all refus- ed to credit him with any ideas or purposes of his own.
 Little Willie's Pose
 Yet so cleverly was he engineered that he contrived to stand, in the eyes of those who were not in a position to see him as he was, for @ young man of big ideas, steadfast purpose, and high spirits. The very absurdity of it was the factor which outraged the Kaiser more than anything else, as I heard one of the Princes remark in comment on one of the many de- Ivelopments of the quarrel.
 | fa nov if 7Q10-tha Kaiser Prize was won by a horse which the Crown Prince owned. When the number of the winner was hoisted the Crown Prince appeared on the course, and led in the winner, as the owner of the winner of the Eng fish Derby would do. He was greet ed with roars of applause in the midst of which the Kaiser rose, with face as black as night, and sta1ked away from the stands in furious temper.
 That action of the Crown Prince was the cause of 8 bitter quarrel be- tween father and son, and was uni versally condemned by the rest of the family.
 I frequently encountered the Grown Prince in the aristocratic sporting re- sorts of Berlin. He was frequent at- tendant at the Hot Tennis Club in the kurfuesstendamm, and played a ) hard, rough game. Often he would
 come to the exhibition nights at my Hof Boxing Club.
 !, I often watched him exercising his