The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
MEMOIRS FASTEN
GUILT ON KAISER
Continued from First Pa0s.

Prussia and Germany began 70 recover
from It's fright. The conservative,
Junker Bismarck family, which might
have been counted on exerting its entire
Influence for final vindication Of the
illustrious grandfather, also regained
courage and took q new step 10 have
the great testament suppressed.
Sworn 10 Prevent Publication.
'"The young Prince, spurred on by his
mother. proceeded to Berlin, gathered
about him group OF titled officers and
others of the Kaisers faithful, and of
an evening read aloud the perilous book
to them The clique thereupon swore TO
prevent its publication. The famous
Privy Counsellor Kriege, the Kaiser's
attorney and one OF the shrewdest Off
Gals OF the old regime, was marshaled
and he it was who first brought pressure
to bear on the exlled william The for
mer Kaiser was and remains the object
Of his friends initiative in this matter
Only one member OF the company, the
former Privy Chancellor. Count zu
Gutenberg. grasped from the reading
that for specific reasons the book might
help the Emperor. With these reasons
in view he offered to beard the lion him
self, but he lost heart at the last mo-
ment and made the classic comment
The first years of my gracious sover-
eign's reign were heavily clouded by
Prince Bismarck, ana / could not bring
myself to poison the evening Of his days
with the same name
1.-THE Kaiser's attorney was thus free
to file the claim that the Kaiser as
William Won Hohenzollern and a private
person had not lost his civic rights in
Germany. hence could demand protec-
ton against the publication Of several
personal letters in the Bismarck volume.
A temporary injunction forbade the APP
pearance of the book eight days before
It's publication. and since then three
courts with their monarchistic Judges
have affirmed the decision.
Called Private Correspondence.
Political letters of Prince William
nearly all the letters were written before
he assembled the throne-are adjudged
er offered to remove the letters. despite
the great technical difficulties. he was
referred to the clause in the old contract
which pledged the publication of the
book without additions or deletions
This same clause, however, had been
overridden quickly enough when years
before Prince Herbert Bismarck had
wanted to save himself with the Kaiser
party and have the publication of the
third volume deferred.
New reasons are always found II
give moral justification to the Kaiser
party year ago extradltion was
pressing. and public opinion was not 20
be further incensed against the depart
ed monarch. Now the book must welt
until the financial adjustment between
the former Kaiser and the Prussi2n Par
Lament Is reached. That Is to say he
fears he might receive a few millions
less IL the Deputies get to read his early
letters and NBismarcks opinions. CAT
the beginning Of the revolution when a
German officer went TO Amerongen to
obtain the Kaiser's signature to his ABB
dication. the first angry question was:
And how about our property?D But
while Bismarck is forbidden after his
death to defend himself before the world
tho Kaiser party has the new Austrian
Government dig from the Vienna ar
chives long letter OF the Kaiser to En-
peror Franz Joseph--a letter giving a
palpably untrue account of Bisma rck's
dismlssal-and gleefully publishes it in
Germany.
The German people. despite all that
has happened. let's the play go on ana
remains In Ignorance of masterpiece"
Chapter on Prince William.
''rhe book begins with chapter or
Prince William In which, like a fine
novelist, Bismarck shows the young
mans reverence for him and then the
first quick quarrel which came while
both grandfather and father were stir
living. In one OF his letters, dated in
1887, Prince william denoted the Chan
cellor as the man whose glorious work
must continue to guard and shield the
country which he has created CThir-
teen years later the great Chancellor
was merely the assistant OF my grand
father OF highly blessed memory.D At
the same time the Prince defended his
partisanship for the anti-Semetic clergy
man Stoecker. Bismarck answered with