Evening star., 1920-02-07
EXPLAINS VALUE
OF SECRET TREATY
Kaiser in 1905 Wrote Car
Regarding 'Groupement"
Which Omitted Britain.
Copyright, 1870. \

today and copied from the letters on
file in Moscow by Isaac Don Levine
followed Immediately after the visit
of the kaiser to Bjoerko. a historic
island in the Mslar sea off the coast
of Sweden, where the car signed the
secret treaty with the kaiser and the
latter felt that he had completed
great step in fashioning the new
''groupement" that was to include
practically all the powers except
Great Britain. The signing of the
secret treaty by the cIar was Will
liam's master stroke. Both the car
and william were defeated by Scrgius
Witte. Witte caused the czar to re-
pudiate the treaty. The cars weak
character had given William his op-
portunity, but had also lost the game
for him.
After Secret Treaty Was Signed.
"Pillau. July 81. 7.ls05.-Dearcst
Nicky: On reaching the shores of my
home l take the earliest opportunity
of sending you a line to onrc more
thank you for the way in which you
received me and the kindness shown
to me by you. The hours I was al
lowed to spend in your society will he
ever craven in my memory: you were
like a dear brother to me-. shall al
ways respond to your feelings with
the same warmth and with the same
intensity as you and YOU can count
on me as on a firm friend. who is filled
with the sole wish and hope to sec YOU
successful in your heavy work, and
your country soon recover from the
severe test it has undergone through
the will of Providence. The alliance
for mutual support in case of need
which we concluded will be of great
use to Russia. as it will restore quiet
in the minds of the people and con-
fidence in the maintenance of peace in
Europe. and encourage financial cir
cles in foreign countries to place
funds in enterprises to open up Rus-
Sia, and its vast stores OF wealth yet
untouched. In times to come IT may
not be impossible that even Japan
may feel inclined to join it, This
would cool down English selfassertion
and impertinence. as she is her ally
too. The cath of July. 1905. is cor
ner stone in European politics and
turns over new leaf in the history
of the world: which will be a chapter
of peace and good will among the
great powers of the European conti-
nent, respecting each other in friend
ship. confidence. and in pursuing the
general policy on the lines OF COM
munity of interests. The moment the
laws of the new 'groupement will
have become known to the world, the
smaller nations. Holland, Belgium.
Denmark, Sweden, Norway will all be
attracted to this new great center or
gravity. by quite natural laws OF the
attraction of smaller bodies by the
larger and compacter ones. They Will
revolve in the orbit of the great block
of powers (Russia. Germany, France.
Austria, Italy) and feel confident in
leaning on and revolving around this
mass The dual alliance combining
with the triple alliance gives a quin-
tuple alliance. well able to hold all
unruly neighbors in order. and to i'm
pose peace even by force. IL there
should be a power harebrained enough
to disturb it.
"DOn't Forget German Shipbuil1ers."
"In the conversation with that excel
lent man Birilew-capital choice you
made-I mentioned that when once
your types of ships are decided upon.
you ought to build them as many as
possible at once. and not forget the
German private firms, besides the
French. Because they would work as
for their own country. whereas other
of your builders and engineers against
yourself and country. Between Bjoer-
koe and Hochland 1 met my cruiser
coming from Sweden. unshaven. un-
washed and perfectly black like
chimneysweep-a picture of woe from
the smoke of the torpedo boat. l got
some French newspapers. in which /
read a resume of the Brest fetes:
II Y a 12 ans nous avions Toulon ct
Cronstadt c'etait lie marriage d amour.
CONNIE chez tous les marriages d'amour
est survenu un desillusionnement gem
eral surtout depuis Ia guerre 1904-05.
Maintenant nous avons Brest ct Cowes
cest lie marriage d'affairs. ct CONNIE
chez tous les marriages d'affairs ii en-
resultera un marriage de raison."
("For twelve years Toulon and Cron-
stadt were united in a marriage of love.
Ea n af
ment came: this followed the war of
19O4-05. Now Brest and Cowes 90 are
united in a business marriage and like
all of these it will turn out to be "A
prudent marriage.")
Il think that really cool, for an
ally; to let her annie ct allies drop like
that! 1t will do the French a world of
good if you draw the reins little
tighter. Their 10 milliards of francs
they placed in Russia. of course. him
der them from quite falling off. but the
language shows to what a point the
English batteries have already brought
the French: hope they won't go quite
off their heads at Cowes. To use the
meta phor of marriage again, Mari
anne (France) must remember that
obliged to lie in bed with you. and
eventually to give a hug or kiss now
and then to me. but not to sneak into
the bedroom of the ever-intriguing
touche-a-tout on the island.
AdmonftiOn Accompanies "Good-By."
Now goodbye. dearest Nicky; don't
forget about magma charta thabeas cor
pus acD and the recompense for your
line army in bringing il to level with
the guards. You promised it to me.
Don't mind the ill humor of Glad: or
the guards opposition, remember the
10th Army Corps in the field that bled
for you, and those in the provinces at
home, who are daily fighting for you
against the revolution. Best love to
Alix from your
Most devoted friend.
WILLY"
"P. S-As you told me that Bouly-
gine had already finished a bill after
your directions. responding to the ideas
1 told you about. it would. i think. be
urgent to promulgate it now at once, to
let the members be chosen as soon as
possible so that. when the conditions
for peace are submitted to you, you can
communicate them to the Russian peo-
pie, who would have to bear the re-
sponsibility (doubly underscored) of
rejection or approval. This would
shield you from a general attack on
your policy from all sides If you did il
alone;" (underlined).
(To Be Continued.)