New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Suggestion Made That Lon
don Court Might Raise
Suspicion of Prejudice
and Keep E,lmity Alive
Royal Relation Figures
One Element Still Remem-
bers Culprit Is Grand
son of Queen Victoria
Ne1o York Tribune

Copyright 1919. New York Tribune Incl
LONDON, July 6.--Speculation is
rife regarding the arrangements for
the trial of the ex-Kaiser, but for the
present very little definite information
is available. So many points are in
volved, and so many necessary deci-
slons are to be taken, that it seems
likely the arrangements will not reach
stage permitting full public an
nouncement for some time.
slowly but surely dividing into two
camps, those who favor trial and
those who are opposed to any such
procedure. Among the strongest ad-
herents of the former policy there may
be many who realize that the plan as
outlined at present is none too likely
of fulfilment and the failure to hold
a trial after so much publicity would
be embarrassing to Premier nloyd
George.
Interest Centres on Details
Among. the matters exciting the
greatest interest in connection with the
proposed trial are:
Farst. The place Of the ex-Kaiser's
trial.
Second The choice of the building
where the trial is to be held.
THIRD. The personnel of the court
The selection of London as the place
for the trial is accepted by large sec
ton of the public as "a magnificen
compliment to British law and JUS
tice," but there is a tendency in all the
discussion to ignore the possibility
that the former monarch may not ap-
pear here at all. The last word from
Holland indicated that he may leave
that country any moment he desires.
that no difficulty will be raised by
the Dutch government regarding the
delivery of Wilhelm to the Allies and
that probably he will be sent in a
Dutch warship to the mouth of the
Thames. In spite of THIS declaration
there is every indication that Holland
will require a lot Of persuading before
she will surrender her guest, and there
is no indication yet that the Allies
are ready to demand the surrender of
the former Emperor.
London Trial Questioned e.
The other side of the case is put
forward by A. G. Gardner in "The
Daily News" He says:
ut is possible that on reflection
there will be less confidence in the
wisdom Of choosing London as the
place for the trial. So great and un-
precedented an event in the history
OF the world should be invested with
as dispassionate and judicial an at
mosphere as possible, and every tempt
alton to present it as a spectacle should
be resisted and resented.
"No one will pretend that the at
mosphere in this country in regard to
the cxAKaiser is dispassionate or ju-
dicial. 1t would be a miracle if it
were. The mind of this country has
been made up about the Kaiser for
five years, and the tongues neither of
of men nor angels would change it.
There is no court, however judicial,
that cannot be influenced by universal
popular feeling Of this sort Here is
scheme for keeping the wounds of
the war open and the mind of the
country excited and infamed.
Royal Relations Involved
"But there is another objection to
London which should have been final.
The decision throws into violent re-
lief certain considerations whereon no
one desires at this time to lay en-
phasis. The conflict between blood re-
lationships and national relationships
has been one Of the cruelist expert
ences of the war. 1t is conflict which
has been peculiarly poignant in GER
tain quarters which have a command
ing claim to our sympathy and pro-
lection. The prisoner who is about
to be brought to London for trial is a
grandson of Queen Victoria, the son of
British princess royal and a cousin
of the reigninr monarch"