Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-23
THE WILLY-NICKY LETTERS

Copyright, 1920, by The Chicago Daily
News Foreign Seryice.)
In this installment of The Willy
Nicky letters, the ex-kaiser eXhorts
the former car of Russia on the
duty of royalty to stand togethe,
solidly for the protection of the
divine right of kings the
car still further of the perils OF
intimate association with the re-
public of France Or. F.). Also he
enters upon a discussion of Turkey
and it's European relations as well
as other political events of interest
Continuing his last letter, he says:
Laments Death of Louis XVI.
Don't forget that Faure---not his
personal fault-sits on the throne %
the king and queen of France by
the grace of God whose heads
Frenchmen, republicans, cut Oh!
The blood of their majesties is still
on that country. Look at it-has It
since then ever been happy or quiet
again? Has it not staggered from
bloodshed to bloodshed? Ard in its
great moments did it not go from
war to war till it soused all Europe
and Russia in streams of blood? Till
at last it had the commune over
again? Nicky, take my word on it
the curse of God has stricken that
people forever! We Christian kings
and emperors have one holy duty
imposed on us by heaven; that is to
uphold the principle Won Gottes
Gnaden' (by divine yight we can
have good relations with the R. F.,
but never be intimate with her! l
always fear that in frequent and
long visits in France people with
out feeling it imbibe republican
ideas. Here I must tell you an ex-
ample! l remember a few years ago
gentleman-no Communicating me
full of horror that when he was at a
fashionable salon in Paris he heard
a Russian general answer French
ones question whether Russia would
smash the German army, answer:
oh, nous seront battu a plate cou-
ture, mais quesque ca fait? Nous
aurons alors aussi la republiuue.
con, we will be smashed to pieces
but what does that matter? We will
then also get a republic") That l.:
what l am afraid of for you, my deaE
Nicky! Don't forget Skobelew and
his plan for carrying off the i'm.
perial family at a dinner once!
therefore, take care that your gen
erals don't like the R. F. too much
Please forgive my being SO open,
put L want you to see how warmly
L feel for you and how anxious I
am about you and that you should
tuily know what my motives are.
"Lobanow told me about Turkey.
he said that he had cause to suspect
England was after the Dardenelles!
And therefore had revived the Ar
men1an question. | confess that |
was utterly stupefied at this piece
OF news. No doubt since Salisbury's
eyenement Coming into office) Eng
lands foreign policy has become
most mysterious and unintelligible
and the quaint way in which the
fleet sulks around the Dardanelles
indicates that it means something
there. But if they do that they vio-
late the treaty of Berlin, and this
they cannot be allowed to do without
the permission of all the other sigma
tory powers; which they never will
give. But it seems that they have
SOM idea or other of changing their
policy in the Mediterranean, for. two
days ago Malet, on paying his fare
well visit to our foreign office, used
very clustering words about Ger
many behaving badly to England in
Africa, that it would not stand it
any longer and that after buying off
the French by concessions in Egypt,
they were at liberty to look after us.
He even was so undiplomatic to utter
the word war, saying that even Eng
land would not shrink from making
war upon me if we did not knock
down (climb DOWN in Africa
have made an answer to the effect
that the British were making them
selves ridiculous in this case. and
obnoxious to every body, and if they
go, into trouble with anybody else