Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-09
Ey ISAAC DON LEVINE.

Nv LSAikAO OVN LIZ AN
OForeign CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Daily
News.)
Upon the. execution of Nicholas
Romanoff, the ex-czar of Russia. in
Ekaterinburg in July, 1918, a case
containing his private correspond
ence was found among his personal
effects. This case was transmitted
by the soviet authorities to MOSCOW
Among it's contents was a batch OF
letters written in English, addressed
to ''Nicky" and signed willy" Thei G
were seventy-three letters in the
batch, covering a period of twenty
years, 1S94-1914.
| examined these original letters
during my Stay in Moscow last Octo.
Der. The somewhat faded blue Of
the stationery used by the German
emperor, his heavy and firm hand
writing as well as his quaint English
distinguished this batch from a
number OF other papers kept in the
same safe. | cause to be made It
complete copy of all the letters, and
photographs OF. some of them.
The collection that Thu, Daily
News and The Atlanta JON nal will
publish is complete--not selection
from the llaiser's letters to the cZar.
1t includes all such letters in exist.
ence None Of these letters has ev "
been published, although more thar
a year ago number of kilograms
exchanged between the kaiser and
the car in the years 1904-1907 APP
peared under the name Of The
Wtly-Niclzy Correspondence,
Without questioning the genuine
ness OF the kilograms referred IS IL
should nevertheless be emphas t2ed
that the so-called "Willy-Nichy Cor
respondence," being kilograms, cam
rot by their very nature be autheflti-
Gated. For 1T is scarcely possible
that no errors should have been cotn
mitted in the transmission of a large
humber of kilograms. In the case Of
letters here published we have really
set of irrefutabe and unguestion-
able documents.
The first OF these communications
was written in 1894, on the occa sion
Of the succession to the throne OF
Nicholas Romanoff The last was
dispatched in 1914. The twenty
years encompassed by these com
munications from the kaiser to the
czar will always remain period of
profound interest to the future his
torian. In these twenty years the
forces which eliminated in tn.
bloodiest and vastest war in the life
of mankind grew and developed.
After the countless contemporary
histories the causes of the world war
have turned into dust and vanished
from the memory Of man. these let
tiers will hold their, own.
AS time goes on and passions and
prejudices, give way to calm iudg-
ment and impartial analysis, people
will peruse these pages more and
more frequently. What a boon to
humanity it would be if the enor-
nous volume of truth lying buried in
the private archives of half a dozen
European courts. existing and ex-
tinct, were suddenly to be revealed
to the world! So far little has come
out of the archives of the fallen Ger
man and Austrian royal houses. The
letters here published are the first
collection Of it's kind from the arch
ives of the deposed Romanoffs to seq
the light
The kaiser was the apostle of the
principe de la monarchie." This
appears very early in his commune
cations to the Russian autocrat. His
big purpose, running like red
thread through all these letters, was
to divert Russia's attention from
the west to the east and ALLEVIATE
her from France. In the first part
of his program the Kaiser succeeded.
He turned the attention of the czar
to the Far East, he aroused in Nicky
the belief that Russia's mission was
to stave off the yellow peril. mas
much as the car followed the sug-
gestions of the kaiser-and this cor
respondence shows 1.-THE kaiser
was actually responsible for the
Russo-Japanese war;
What would have happened to the
world had Europe's mightiest autoc-
racies Joined hands in a military
alliance is a matter for interesting
speculation now. In all probability
there would have been no revolutions
in Russia and Germany, and Willy
and Nicky would still be on their
thrones. The whole world now prob
ably would be respectively under the
arrogant rule of Prussian and Rus
sian militarists.
1t is impossible to recount here
all the characteristics of the admiral
of the Atlantic'-as the kaiser call
ed himself-reveaIed in these let
ters. Every letter contains a differ
ent feature, disc1oses a new trait, of
the kaiser's nature. But by far the
most outstanding phase of Will
helms mind appears to be his in
tense hatred of Great Britain.
The kaiser's English is far from
perfect. His spelling leaves much
to be desired. ALREADY" "all-
ways" welfare" are some of his
commonest mistakes. He almost in
variably employs "&" for 'ard." He
writes ''beeing" instead of being
'wether" instead of whether" ''un-
noble" in place of 'fgnoble," "cour-
tesey," assistance" "takle," sex
istant," 'openess," are some of his
other errors. Instead of Turkey"
the kaiser writes "Turky" and in
stead of 'Dardanelles" he spells
'Dardanels." His letters are replete
with faulty constructions and con-,
tain scores of .misspellings in addi-
ton to those here mentioned. These
mistakes have been corrected in the
text of the letters as they are to be
published in The Journal.