Evening star., 1920-02-10
MASTER PL0TTER
DOUBLE CROSSED"
BY COUNT W|TTE
Kaiser's Scheme Spoiled by
Russian Statesman, Who
Discouraged Plan.
(Copyright. 192O.)

| Copyright. 1920)
Kaiser Wilhelm III never doubted that
! Count Sergius Witte Of Russia. the great
| plenipotentiary in the peace negotiations
| at Portsmouth. in 1905. would work FOR
! the Russo German alliance. So he con-
! fided to Witte on his arrival in Berlin
| that the car had entered into the de-
| fensive agreement. And apparently the
| kaiser, who put in his time weaving
| plots and counterplots. was cleverly
taken in by Witte For he writes
Nicholas under date of September 26
| that Count Witte Is a firm advocate OF
! an alliance between Russia, Germany
| and France.
| 1t was this information. given to
Witte in Berlin, that brought the treaty
| to naught. Witte returned to Russia and
| by pointing out to the czar the dangers
Of an alliance with Germany spoiled the
kaiser's scheme. In the vernacular the
kaiser was double crossed"
The letters of the kaiser were copied
| in Moscow by Isaac Don Levine. staff
correspondent of The Daily News.
Rominten September 26, 1905
Dearest Nicky: Whites visit gives me
the agreeable opportunity to send you
/, few words. This always affords me
| great pleasure and I only trust that the
letter may not bore you too much. I
had most interesting conversations with
Witte. He has impressed me as a man
| of uncommon perspicacity and foresight
and rare gift of energy. He has man.
aged to turrrwith Roosevelt's [sic]
equally energetic and clever help-the
Portsmouth conference to n very good
end. So much so. that in the rest of
the world it is regarded as a signal and
effective victory of Russia over Japan.
This may be of interest to you. be-
cause doubtless enemies Of his and in
vfdious people in Russia may wish to
detract from his work and make believe
st,yt l. l,1E, g. 1t
try's interests as he ought to. Great
men-and he must be, believe, counted
among them-will ever have to face
certain amount of envy and lies which
counterbalance the share of praise
lavished on them by their admirers. But
it is the facts that speak for them and
Portsmouth speaks for itself.
Witte Advocates Alliance9
Il found. to my great satisfaction.
with the base upon which we rested
our views exchanged at Bjoerkoe. He
Is firm advocate Of a Russo-German-
france alliance which, as he tells me,
viii be gladly 'cotaoyge' by America
for the maintenance Of the peace and
status suo in the world. the balance of
which has been disturbed by the
Anglo-Japanese treaty. He was conse-
quently very agreeable surprised when
told him of our work at Bjoerkoe. 1t
-. eHo siou ping VI powers Wnlcn is
the most natural-they being the rep
resentants OF the 'continent'-and will
have the consequence Of drawing all
the other lesser powers in Europe into
the orbit OF this great block. America
will stand on the side Of this combine
ton Firstly. from the racial point
OF view, they are decidedly white
anti-'yellow.' Secondly, politically.
from fear Of Japan on account Of the
Philippines upon which the japanese
have cast longing eyes. their loss
in the Pacific. Thirdly, from the dam
gerous competition Of the Japanese
trade sustained by very cheap labor
and without the cost Of long transport
with its tari1s for freight and for the
to be paid for its passage being q
heavy tax on the whole European com
merce. The same thing will be with
the Panama canal
Sceores British Tactics Axafn.
The continental combine fianked
by America is the sole and only man
ner to effectively block the way to
the whole world becoming John
Buits sa.t private property. which he ex-
having. by lies and intrigues with
out end. set the rest Of the civilized
nations by each others ears for his
own personal benefit. We see this
pernicious principle at work now in
the Morocco question in which John
Bull is equally doing his best to set
the French dead against us. there
by causing endless delay and trou-
BILE. But your allies are SO hypno-
tized by Cowes' and 'Brest' and the
ANYTHING in foreign politics with
out consulting London first. Think
it would be a good thing If you
would have Nelfdoff advised to put
stop to this AnglomAnia and to re-
mind the French that their future
he is also somewhat 'anglomane.'
Witte kindly gave the French advice
about Morocco to take reason and I
have ordered Radolin to be a. con.
that we shall come to terms in .
with regard to the Anglo-French
'entent cordiale' you may, perhaps,
find in my letters to you from two
sse 1hsss Sa,n you Of II:
when they commonly opposed your
policy in Macedonia after the :Muerx-
steg punctations.' I then showed
that they were resuming their old
called them the 'crimean combina-
tion.' The liberal western powers
have combined as I predicted; and
are not only opposing you In foreign
policy, but more hotly and open on
the field Of internal Russian policy.
The French and English liberal press
quite openly and in conjunction de-
nounce all monarchical and energetic
actions in Russia-the :Zardom.' ~
they call it-and openly espouse the
cause Of the revolut ionaries for the
expansion and maintenance Of lib
eralism and 'enlightenement' against
the 'Zardom' and imperialism of
certain backward countries. That is
yours and mine. The phrase (with)
which the French are always re-
caught by England is to uphold in
common the interests of liberalism
in the world and to propagate it in
other countries That means to
foster and help revolutions all over
Europe. especially in countries which
are happily not yet under the abso-
lutte nominations Of those Internal
parliaments.
New Charge Against Edward VII.
"A piece of news that will amuse
you come from Vienna q few days
ago. The American ambassador, Mr..
Bellamy Storer. told a friend Of mine
that he had been with tho King Of
England at Marienbad q few days
before the conclusion OF peace. The
king told Storer that there was no
idea of peace. as Japan would never
be allowed to give up tho demand for
indemnity. which was due to it as
victor. He then went on saying that
it was most necessary that Russia
should be and remain financially help
less and crippled for long time.
Storer said he was in very awk-
ward nosition as the king asked his