The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-11
Enver Pasha, Who Took the Koran.
Koran, Taken by Turks, Goes to King
of the Hedjaz, as Political Success
sor of Mohammed. and Skull of
Sultan of Okwawa to Britain

order to avenge Austria of her defeat
in the Six Weeks Campaign Of 1866.
IE means of these Chateau de Ger
' cay papers Bismarck was able not
only to ,terrorize all the on-Prussian
States of Germany into electing King
William as Emperor, but also subse-
Quently to render them amenable to
dictation from Berlin. Little by little
| their independence was usurped by
Prussia. Every now and again the
| rulers Of Saxony. of Bavaria, of Wurt-
temberg, OF Hess, OF the two Grand
duchies of Mecklenburg, of Oldenburg.
OF the sovereign Duchies OF SaXe-Co-
| burg Gotha. Of Saxe-Meiningen, Sake
Weimar, etc, would show signs of re-
volt against the intolerable tyranny
! OF the Hohenzollerns and against the
unwarrantable interference of the I'm
perial Government at Berlin in the
affairs of their own dominions. But
they always ended by more or less
abject surrender, terrified by the re-
membrance OF the papers OF Cercay,
until toward the last the Constitution
of the German Empire had become
OF Just as little Importance in the eyes
OF the Kaiser and of his ministers as
! the treaty by means OF which Prussia
guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium.
In one memorable instance the
Kaiser. entertaining personal objec-
tons to the lawful heir to the throne
Of Lippe, excluded him from the sue
cesslon by force and invested his own
Drother-in-law with the rulership of
this sovereign State and with the pos
session of the Crown property in con-
temptuous defiance of the protests of
the Government and OF the people of
the Principally. And while Emperor
William was bound by the Constitu-
ton to refrain from declaring war
without the sanction of the various
| sovereign States of the Confederation
| through their respective rulers and
their plenipotentiaries in the Federal
Council at Berlin, he plunged the en-
tire world in the great conflict which
has Just been brought TO an end with
out any warning to them. acting en-
tirely or his own bat and treating his
brother sovereigns of the Empire not
as allies, but as insignificant vassals
| whose wishes and views were matters
OF supreme Indifference both TO himself
and to his Government.
No More BIackmaiI.
1t must be borne in mind that there
are several survivors to this day of
the war of 1870 and OF the negotia-
| tions in connection with the creation
at that time OF the now defunct Ger
man Empire among the recently de-
throned sovereigns OF Germany. Thus
there is ex-King Leopold OF Bavaria,
now refugee in Switzerland, and
crippled by Prussian bullet received
in the Six Weeks War of 1865. Then
there is the ci-devant King Of Wurt-
temburg, who was at Versailles when
William of Hohenzollern was pro-
| claimed German Emperor in 1871. Nor
must l omit the name of the eX-
| Grandduke of Oldenburg. Even those
German sovereigns who were not liv-
| ing in 1870 did not relish the idea OF
the memory of their fathers being
besmirched by revelations from the
| Cercay papers.
The surrender of the Cercay papers
| by Prussia to France will deprive
! Prussia in general and the Hohenzol-
| their restoration--of ever being able
| again to blackmail and to terrorize
into submission the other States OF
Germany. Any power that the DOS