The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-12
REMARKABLE INTERVIEW

lore In preparation for his guest
 There is nothing dearer to the | Kaiser than caste and social distinc- l ton Morganatic marriages were nat i urally abhorrent to him. Nevertheless, before Archduke Franz Ferdinand the I successor to the Austrian throne, was murdered, the Kaiser not only reeog- | nized his morganatic wife, who was | only a countess but went out of his way to show her difference. He placed 1 her at his right at all state functions which she attended. To bring America and Germany closer together. he was willing to waive one of his deep-rooted prejudices
 SIGNIFICANCE OF ACTS
 The significance of the Kaiser's many visits to Italy. his presentation of statue to Stockholm, his yachting excursions in Scandinavian waters his fhrtations with Turkey from his castle on the island of Corfu. and similar acts of ingratiation, become quite ap- parent in the face of more recent de- velopments but his efforts to curry favor with America during all the years of peace which preceded the war were so much more elaborate that they deserve more than passing men, ton.
 No more subtle piece of propaganda was ever conceived than the Kaisers plan or exchanging professors between the ", establishment of the Roosevelt and Har- yard chairs at the University of Ber- iin and corresponding chairs at Harvard and other American universities. Osten- sibly the purpose of the project was to foster good will between the two nations. Actually, it. was intended to AGermanize Americans to such an extent that their cooperation might be relied upon in the event of war for which Germany was seduously preparing.
 It was believed that the exchange of professors would accomplish the German purpose in two days: not only could the professors the Kaiser sent to Amer lea be depended upon to SOW German seed in American soil. but the Amer- can professors who were sent to Berlin, if was hoped, could be so inocuated with the German viewpoint that when they returned to their native land they would disseminate it among their asso- ciates and students.
 ATTENDED OPENING LECTURE
 The interest which the Kaiser took in this well laid plan is evidenced by the . fact that he attended the opening ec- lures given by the American professors every year, although he had never paid such honor to a German professor. h. deed, the first visit the Kaiser ever paid in his life to the University of Berlin vas to hear Professor Burgess, the first exchange professor that Harvard sent across.
 It was because the Kaiser's underly ing purpose was to some extent frus- trated when Harvard sent Professor Muensterberg, a German. to Berlin, to occupy the Harvard chair, that that well known psychologist was so badly re- ccived It was noted by the newspaper correspondents at the time that te ser conversed fully half an hour with Professor Smith of the University of Vir- ginia, who occupied the Roosevelt chair, but that he devoted only five minutes to Muensterberg. What was the sense of wasting time and effort on German? The object was to Germanize Americans.
 The report that although the Kaiser attended Muensterbergs lecture, he paid very little attention to the lecturer, brought a spirited rejonder from the professor in question He declared that it vas quite untrue that the Kaiser had slghted him in any way. On the con trary, he insisted the Kaiser had been a most interested listener and had been seen, indeed, to nod his head several 1 times in the course of the lecture-which l led an American foreign correspondent | to comment that, mot only was the Kali 1 ser seen to nod at Muensterberg's lec- ture; he was likewise observed to yawnH'
 PRINCE HENRY'S VISIT
 Sometime before the Kaiser conceived l the scheme of the exchange professors, | he sent his brother, Prince Henry, to | this country to draw the two nations | closer together and to instill in the heart l Of every child born in America of Ger | man parents an abiding love for the | fstherland
 Just before the war broke out, he was planning to send one of his sons here with the same object.
 He told me of his project and asked | me to which part of the United States I thought he ought to send the prince.
 That depends, your majesty I re- piled, upon the object of the visit. If the purpose is to meet American so- ciety, I would recommend such places as Newport in summer and Palm Beach in winter. To come in contact with our statemen and diplomats, Washington would naturally be the most likely place to visit"
 The Kaiser thanked me for the infor- nation but did not enter into fur ther details as to the object he had in mind or which son he had planned to send across.
 It was to curry favor with America | that the Kaiser had his yacht Meteor built in our shipyards, and it is a fact i that more American women were pre- 1 scented at the German court than those l of any other nation.
 when he presented statue of Fred 1 erick the Great to this country, in Me | Kinley's administration, it created a | k less appropriate, it was argued, than | the statue of a monarch in the capital I of a republic? The statue was not set l up in McKinley's administration. but | x Roosevelt accepted it in the interest of | diplomacy and had it erected in front | of the Army building.
 Seeing that his gift had had just the l opposite effect to that intended, the | Kaiser reprimanded his ambassador for | not having interpreted American senti- | ment more accurately.
 ROOSEVELT IN BERLIN
 A few days after the death of King | Edward, Roosevelt arrived in Berlin I Despite the fact that all Europe was in l mourning, the Kaiser arranged the | most elaborate military dress review | ever given in honor of private citi- l zen to celebrate Roosevelts visit The i review was held in the large military l observation near Berlin. More than 1o0,- GOO soldiers passed in review before the | K zdser and his staf and their honored gueat rl
 How far the Kaiser would have gsne