Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-07
HOW COL. ROOSEVELT VIEWED THE FORMER
 KAISER REVEALED
Memoirs Touch on Stage of Anglo-Teuton
 Feud


 New York, Mar. -sAn intimate pen-picture of the former emperor of Germany, drawn by Colonel Roose- welt in a letter to Sir George Otto Trevelyan in 1911, which shows him in the light of an "adorer' of Eng land, appears in the March number of Scribner's magazine out tomor- row.
 It is the concluding portion of Roosevelt's personal 25,000-word ac- count of his travels in Egypt and Eu- rope following his return from his memorable African hunting trip.
 The former president wrote that William agreed with him. during the course of long interview at Pots dam, that war between England and Germany would be 'an unspeakable calamity" The colonel said that Prince Henry of Prussia, of whom the then kaiser was rather jealous" was "a more really powerful and cold -blooded man" than the emperor and that of the two, he was the more hostile to England.
 Referring to his visit to Berlin. fol- lowing delightful" receptions in Belgium, Holland, Denmark. Norway and Sweden, the colonel wrote that the German authorities and people showed him every courtesy and civili- ty, but that. excepting the universi- ty folk, "they really did not want to see me-" America, he said, was very unpopular in Germany. The upper classes regarded democracy, he said, as irregular, unna tural and debasing. The lower classes, on the other hand. were socialists who re- garded me as an enemy rather than friend. The middle class looked upon me as q representative of an American which consisted of busi- ness rivals whose rivalry was irritat- ing and obnoxious
 An interesting sidelight on Von Tirpitz, then the secretary of war. was afforded by the colonel's refer ence to an interview with the man who later inaugurated the ruthless submarine warfare. Von Tirpitz, he said, was intensely interested in the voyage of the American battle fleet around the world, and he told the former president that he had not be- ieyed Eve could do it successfully" adding that the British naval and foreign offices had felt the same way. "He said. he expected Japan on its way round.
 Il told him." he wrote, "that I had not expected such an attack, but that had thought it possible; in oth- ! CT words, that r thought the chances were against it, but there was a [ chance for it. My point of view at the time the fleet sailed, was that if the Japanese attacked it, it was i a certain sign that they were intend ! ing to attack us at the first favorable ! opportunity.
 T had been doing my best to be | polite to the Japanese and had if | nally become uncomfortably con scious of very, very slight un- dertcne of voiled truclence in their communications in connection with { things that happened on the Pacific | slope; and finally made up my ! mind that they thought I was afraid ! of them. {
 Every particle of trouble with the ' Japanese government and the Japan csc press stopped like magic as soon as they found that our fleet had ac- tually sailed, and was obviously in good trim. As l told Von Tirpitz. l thought 1t good thing that the Japanese should know there were fleets of the white races which were totally different from the fleet of poor Rojestvensky." Won Tirpitz and William, he said, told him that they regarded the voyage of the fleet as having "done more for peace in the Orient than anything also that could possibly have happened"
 Other portions of the colonel's let ter to Sir George teem with ancc- ddotes and reference to his associa- ton with European royalties. The simple, unaffected. democratic sim plicity of the rulers 0f Norway i'm pressed him deeply. At Christi ania,' he wrote, "we were taken at once to the palace" where we stay ed; and 1 could hardly speak too strongly of King Haakon, Queen t Maud and little Olaf. They were dears: we were genuinely sorry when we left them, to think that we would never see them again; if ever --or- way decides to turn republic we should have them come to live near Sagamore Hill.
 Norway is funny kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe although it isn't opera uoullt dL all, TOT tite NOTWeglaoSA are fine, serious, powerful lot of { men and women. But they have the most genuinely democratic, so- ciety to be found in Europe, not ex- | cepting Switzerland; there are only two or three states in the American union which are as real democ acies. !, They have no nobles, hardly even gentry; they are peasants and small wnspeoplc-farmers, sailors, fisher ; folk, mechanics and small traders. On this community royal family is suddenly pumped. It is much as 1 if Vermont should offhand try the { experiment of having king. Yet it certainly seemed as if the experi- l ment were entirely successful Vyy- A. HYI