Evening star., 1922-10-01


shelter religious and national
minorities.
I must not yield to the temptation
to write satire on this touching
offer. but merely note that even in
peace times retreats occur which
England was obliged to make
these concessions to protect her
petroleum hopes and on account Of
Egypt and India But didn't the
signers realize how this extremely
deferential note. canCeling the obli-
cations of Sevres. would react on
the other conquered peoples. espe-
cially Germany. We hear already:
The Turks were not such patient
lambs as we were. Instead Of let
ting the wool be drawn over their
eyes they secretly reorganized their
army. sought and found strong lead
ers far from the capital and foreign
control. and to their chief they gave
the powers of dictator. They de-
feated their neighboring enemies and
as gently as a basket OF eggs Let's
do the same.
Dynastic Intrigues.
The fact that Germany is not, like
Islam. situated on rich soil. while
Russia is far from having Frances
military power which. with strategy
and military plans helped Turkey,
Is not taken into account nor is it
remembered that dynastic intrigues
would not succeed so readily in Ber-
lin as IN Athens
Tho idea of creating a continental
tngora in Bavaria or Pomerania or
SileSta or West Prussia is disturbing
some brains from their last shreds
OF reason. The gate is wide open for
ambitious princes, generals, admirals
and adrenturers who imagine them
selves Bona parties. for at the moment
the Hohenzollern standard is some
what dropping. The news Of Will
helms second marriage, the private
reasons for which are too delicate to
discuss. has frightened and angered
many monarchists. The formula.
The poor. lonely kaiser longs for a
sympa thetic heart in his exile, has
not been 80 effective as was hoped.
Women especially have revolted over
his marrying woman thirty years
Younger so soon after his first wife
died and then saying that it is for
love
Wilhe!m's ther Fried
rich Wilhelm III. never was forgiven
for replacing the sanity Queen
Louise, whom he sent as a peace en-
voy TO Napoleon. by another When
the victor at Jena was vanquished at
Waterloo he dictated his memoirs in
real. not pretended. exile, in the aus
tere little house In st. Helena, and he
left the proceeds to his faithful COM
Hohenzoilern. who called Napoleon a
Corsican parvenu and himself the
chosen Of God. who lives in royal
splendor in Doom Castle. with a sill
yer treasure worth many million dol
lars. surrounded by costly furniture,
has money for war victims or even
old servants. but has received from
his memoirs Of the misfortunes Of the
German peoples at least half mil
lion paper marks.
Business Like Ex-kniser.
This divine-right. ex-emperor. who,
as head of the Evangelical Church,
repeatedly warned against mammon,
Is more business-like in these mat
tors than Lloyd George, who does not
keep a penny from his memoirs
Moreover, WilheIns book-which
contains less novelty than can be
agreeable to the man who purchased
the rights before reading-requires
patience to read and even German
patriots find it boresome. Even those
will scarcely believe that this kaiser
who ruled more automatically than a
CHAR, foresaw everything rightly. but
was prevented from carrying out his
Houlc ny CndnCSlOTS "uO,
since Bismarck was dismissed as a
:. servant, were all his obedient menials.
The book only completes the pic
ture Of vain. untruthful cripple in
mind and in body who soon will get
the answer he deserves. With it's
ugly proflteering it can only add one
scandal to the many, mostly hushed
which have taken place in dethroned
royal houses in late years.
Millions will starve this winter. Our
bread is SO bad that British work.
men here for study won't eat it, Child
mortality has terribly increased
through lack Of milk and inherited
disease horribly frequent since the
war. Public charities are so bur
dened that even tubercular patients
cannot go to hospitals until their
condition actually menaces others.
which means after all hope of healing
has gone. Such distress engenders
adventure and therefore the fatal
question:: Who will be Germany's
AustApha Kemal?