The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-31
BY KARL II. Won wEIGAND

Berlin August 3o.--'"The auto
cratic airs of this kaiser striding in
mystical delusion above all reali-
ties. have disturned the whole
Globe for a generation, internally re-
tarded the progress OF the German
People and externally endangered
their peaceful position. However.
just judgment lis to be arrived at only
II one takes into consideration the
'Fsllucination or delusion which domi-
mated hi1n---that he was predestined
sSvior--and the limits of = his sub
Jeetive responsibility which through
nature or pathological condition has
Teen set to his intellect.
THE kaiser on the throne too
often was comparable TO night
wanderer, who either sees everything
glorified and TRANSPORTED in the
moonlight, or distorted into terribly
ing phantoms, who dreamed OF sue
cesses which we've none, or saw dan
rers which in day light need not
fr.ghten any one
The words summarize the analysis,
opinion and Judgment OF DR.. Otto
Iamman. who was often referred to
as the kaiser's press agent, In his book
Around the Kaiser" which is to be
put out by the publishers in a few
days. DR.. Hannah for about fifteen
years was the head of the press de-
rartment of the German foreign Of
fee, retiring In 1915. He shares with
Macmillan Harden the reputation of
Knowing more state secrets, more
about the personality. character and
Ife OF high personages in Germany
than any other German.
This book, written by the man
whose mission for years was to in
ruence the German and foreign press,
who was intimately connected with
Germany's foreign policies during
that period and in the closest con-
tact with several chanceilors, is per-
haps the keenest analysis of the
kaiser and his surroundings yet writ
ten by German. IT treats him
severely, but not unkindly and char
acterizes him as more or less Of an
enigma whose doings and altitude are
expiatnable only by lack of full
mental normality.
DR.. Hannah brings out that Bis
raarck doubted Wilheim's sense of
responsibility when he was still a
young prince and gives a letter from
the kaiser's father to Bismarck in
which the then crown prince, Fred
erick almost prophetically warned the
iron chancellor against letting Will
helm have anything to do with
foreign affairs
In view of the back of maturity
and experience OF my eldest son, to-
gether with his tendency to naughty
| assump tion. his inclination towards
evaggeration and snap Judgment"
F frederick wrote, he would "desig-
nate 1t actually dangerous to bring
him in contact with foreign affairs"
DR. Hanman refers to the Eulen-
burg round table" Camarilla of de-
generates which was broken up by
Maximilan Harden and asks:
How came it that the Berlin and
potsdam court under Wilhelm second
attracted so many 'Weibmenner"
Literally translated IF G m n e
Menu when the kaiser himself was
a manly man? How could he so long
rnknowingly tolerate a circle OF more
or less abnormals In his immediate
ertrourage? Where is the explana-
contact?"
After going into the traits and
characteristics of these abnormals.
Or. Hannah concludes:
Not their sweetish ways or their
alteration Of the kaiser, which Prince
Eulen burg cultivated. can. accord
TO my opinion. sufficiently explain
the stronge degree and duration OF the
influence of the Cammilla OF Webb
menner at the court OF Wilhelm
second. The determining factor lay
more with the kaiser himself in GER
tain predispositions. in his youth. In
his lack OF knowledge of men and in
the unreality of the world in which
his mind lived"
Dr. Hannah insists that the
faiser's intentions were good and a
desire for war was the last thing In
his mind. He fully believed he de-
cIares that he was sent by God to be
a great peace kaiser and TO bless his
own people and the world
The writer points out that the