The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
Dictum Of Reactionnry Judges.


who prevents IT? Did perhaps Will
lam II. return from Paris a victorious
King that now with imperial voice he
can forbid his mighty antagonist to
Judge him before his subjects? An
escaped Prince. an officer deserter, a dis
throned Emperor, extends n hand from
the asylum OF exile. and a book which
lies by the hundred thousands I'm the
publishers warehouse is withheld from
the eyes of the world. And Germany
fails to rebel against the dictum of re-
dictionary judges; even in the victor )
country. where authorized translations
might appear at any moment. there Is
hesitation to risk letting the greatest
German sit in Judgment upon the man
for whose overthrow n world war was
fought.
Germany herself is incredibly ig-
norant OF the situation. 1t still is be-
lieved that Bismarck prescribed the time
when his royal adversary died for pub
fishing his defence. But Bismarck. the
great hater, released all three volumes
from the day of his own death. Yet
hardly were his blue eyes closed before
an incredible campaign was begun by
his own heirs. campaign against him
and for the Emperor. Prince Herbert
asked Kroener. the proprietor of the
Gotta publishing house. TO resign his
rights to the third volume so that a
scandal might be prevented. Rroener
had been chosen years before by Bis
marck as the publisher of his memoirs
and had fixed upon the highest royalty
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under the sons pressure. But he told
himself-it was then 1SsS--the Kaiser
is yet young. the conflict Is still fresh,
the personalities In the third volume are
living time may modify the necessity.
Surprise to His Son.
THE Bismarck family was so
meagrely informed about the last great
work OF the aged Chancellor that Prince
Herbert. the son, when Kroener soon
after the fathers death referred TO the
possibility OF publishing the memoirs.
said with naive surprise and alarm
"Memoirs7 Why. they never were nm
ishedv whereupon Kroener produced
book printed as correction copy for
the Prince and displayed II to the
astOnlbneu nelT.
AT that time the work was in six
volumes. But II was redivided in three,
and the third was to appear after the
Kaiser's death. Kroener voluntarily obli-
eating himself. During these negotia-
tons the Bismarck family asked and
received an increase In royalties. In this
they acted in another spirit from the
Chancellor. who. when Kroener made
his first offer. answered the publisher:
Figure that through once more II seems
like a great deal to me Z
''The Kaiser's political death satisfied
the claims for silence. SO thought young
Krocner. who twenty years after Bis
marcks demise became proprietor of the
house After the revolution
he approached the twenty-five-yea old
grandson and heir, Prince Otto Won
Bismarck The fall Of the Hohenzollerns
and the flight of the Kaiser had nullified
all political considerations he argued.
The young Prince yielded. guided by his
mother. Hungarian Countess. The in
fuence of the revolution was then
strong.
80 finally the book was printed and
was TO appear In the Christmas season
1919. after waiting twenty y-one years
But during tho year the reaction in
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