The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-23
Deposed German Ruler Dscloes Steps Leading Dismissal
of Bismarck Whose Blood and Iron Policies Did Not Fit
in with ExKaisers Views Domestic and Foreign Mat
ters-Former Emperor Expresses Belief in Compromise
To Attain Ends

to the home of the Prince and to that
of Count Herbert.
When l had thus become more init
mate in the Bismarck circle l heard
more open talk about Herr Won Hol-
stein. l heard that he was very clever,
a good worker, Unfortunately proud, an
odd sort of man, who never showed
himself anywhere, and had no social
relations, full of distrust, much in
fluenced by whims, and, besides all
this, good hater, and, therefore, dan
gerous. Prince Bismarck called him
1.-THE Man with the Hyena'S Eyes"
and told me that it would be well for
me to keep away from him. 1t was
quite apparent that the bitter attitude
which the Prince showed later toward
Holstein, his former collaboration, was
forming even at that time.
The foreign office was conducted
with the strictest discipline by Count
Herbert, whose rudeness toward his
employees particularly struck me. The
gentlemen there simply flew when
they were summoned or dismissed by
the count, so much so that joking
saying arose at the time that their
. coattails stood straight out behind
. Quoted and dictated by Prince Bis
marck alone, after consultation with
: Count Herbert, who passed on the
commands of the Chancellor and had
: them transformed into instructions.
Hence the foreign office was nothing
but an office of the great Chancellor,
where work was done according to his
directions. Able men, with independ-
ent ideas, were not schooled and train
ed there.
This was in contrast to the General
. Staff under Moltke. There new oftlc-
ers were carefully developed and train
! ed to independent thinking and action,
in accordance with approved principles
and by dint of preserving old tradi-
, tions and taking into account all that
modern times had taught. At the for
; eign office there were only executive
r instruments of will, who were not
informed as to the important inter
relationship of the questions turned
; over to them for treatment, and could
/ not, therefore, collaborate independ
) entity The Prince doomed up like a
, huge block of granite in a meadow
were he to be dragged away, what
!. would be found beneath would be
! mostly worms and dead roots.
: L
who consulted me about many things
For instance, when the Prince brought
: about the first German colonial &C
quisitions (Gross and Klein Popo
|. Togo, &c), / informed him, at his wish
: concerning the state of mind created
: in the public and the navy by this
move, and described to him the en-
thusiasm with which the German peo
: pie had hailed the new road. The
: Prince remarked that the matter hard
: ly deserved this.
q Later on | spoke often with the
+ Prince about the colonial question anC
always found in him the intention tC
3 utilize the colonies as commercial OBJ
jects, or objects for swapping pur
/ poses, other than to make them use
q full to the Fatherland or utilize then
/, as sources of raw materials. AS was
= my duty | called the Princes attention
> to the fact that merchants and capital
lists were beginning energetically tt
develop the colonies and that, there
fore-as l had learned from Hanseatit
). circles-they counted upon protection
r from a navy. For this reason, point
. ed out that steps must be taken TO
4 getting a fleet constructed in time, il
= order that German assets in foreign
:, ton; that, since the Prince had un
= furIed the German flag in foreigI
q parts, and the people stood behind il
a there must also be navy behind it.
II Bismarck's Continental Prepossessior
. But the Prince turned a deaf ear t
q my statements and made use of hi
\ pet motto: IF the English should Ian
- on our soil l should have them arrest
= ed" His idea was that the colonie
~ would be defended by US at home. Tn
- Prince attached no importance to tn
o. fact that the very assumption that tn
. English could land without oppositio
- in Germany-sincc Heligoland wa
= EngIish-Was unbearable for Germany
y, and that we, in order to make a lane
ar ing impossible from the start, needle
- a sufficiently strong navy, and, likt
n wise, Heligoland.
u, The political interest of the Primo
was, in fact, concentrated essential
If upon Continental Europe; England la
a. somewhat to one side among the care
~ that burdened him daily, all the NOR
~ so since Salisbury stood well with hil
~ and had, in the name Of England, hal
- ed with satisfaction the Double ii. e
= Triple Alliance, at the time of il
y. formation. The Prince worked prin
II arily with Russia, Austria, Italy an
- Rumania whose relations toward &c
=, many and each other he constant
- watched over AS to the prudence an
=, skill with which he acted, EmperC
William the Great once made a poin
,a ed remark to Won Albedyll, his Chief
Cabinet
~ The general found his majesty muc
IA excited after a talk with Bismarck
a,1 such an extent that he feared for tt
I'D health of the old Emperor. He r
- marked, therefore, that his majes
- should avoid similar worry in future
- that, if Bismarck was unwilling to {
i1o as his majesty wished, his males
IA should dismiss him. Whereupon IL
~. Emperor replied that, despite his a
~ miration and gratitude toward Il
- great Chancellor, he had alreaC
no. thought of dismissing him, since Il
- self-conscious attitude of the Prin
90 became at times too oppressive. B
- both he and the country needed b
- marck too badly. Bismarck was Il
"a one man who could juggle five balls
~ which at least two were always in Il
"a air. That trick, added the Emperc
- was beyond his own powers.
Prince Bismarck did not realize thu
"a through the acquisition of colonies f
ice
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