Evening star., 1922-05-14


! himself "crown prince" although he
officially has renounced all claim TO
the imperial Prussian crown. Nobody
contradicts. AS official documents still
| speak of royal house" and the law
| does not compel the Hohenzollerns to
that these Prussian kings and princes
nominally survive the monarchy.
| After the French revolution book
| whose author called himself Dauphin
| of France was conf1Scated and when
| the exiled Comte de Chambord called
laughing stock of the Paris boule-
wards. Even Austria, which seemed
! inseparably attached to It's ancient
| imperial house, has abolished all titles
! Of nobility and after the revolution
never called the emperor anything
but Carl Hapsburg. Time alone will
! show whether these superficialttfes
are as unimportant from the view
point of popular education as repub-
| licans here declare. myself do not
| believe it. Those who overthrew the
| monarchy WHICH existed for half
century should Danish it's ornaments
and not allow celebrations OF the
| 'ali highests birthday" nor titles like
! majesty, imperial, royal highness,
etc, otherwise the development of q
| republican spirit will be difficult.
Facts Not Important.
| was hopeful that young Wilhelm,
after forty-two months in simple
| Wieringen, would have acquired a
! serious outlook on life. counteracting
an erroneous popular conception OF
| him as malicious blockhead. The
| book of this forty-year-old man pain
| fully disappoints this hope. Written
| with the help of a skillfur literary
man, 1t discloses no new, important
facts. 1t glorifies the military mon
| archy almost without censure. 1t
| represents all Hohenzollerns as mod
els of moral and intellectual virtue,
and repeats all that Ludendorf. Hin
! denburg and company have said
| many. 1t tries to awaken in the
! reader the thought that no human be-
| ing ever experienced such ingratitude
as this hard-working crown prince.
! peace. lived only for his people and
| his soldiers, and now is obliged to
| live in misery. This is what this Ho-
henzollern calls a frank, honest rep
resentation of facts" His mother Is
a saint. his father noble in the high
est sense OF the word. brothers bravo
| and intelligent, army commanders
wonderful strategists and heroes.
Not a word Of manly. just recogni-
| ton of the enemy armies and lead
| ers. Nowhere the least feeling for
| the suffering of the people whose
whose unfortified towns German
bombs made deep wounds On the
| contrary, the worst investive is used
| to prove the malice of the victors and
the unexampled baseness of the peace
| treaty, which this prince calls crimi-
nal and the birch of blind vindic-
| tiveness," seeming to forget what
! terms his family and generals had de-
eided to impose on the enemy.
Politics Only Repetition.
The political contents are a mere
repetition of what already has been
said a thousand times in Germany's
defense and are not worth contradict
ing. Ministers are scolded In the
tones of general, yet they were
appointed by the noble kaiser" and
during the war were only puppets of
the military dictatorship. They are
cluded at the right time. before the
| great disaster, as II peace would
have been acceptable to Ludendorff or
to a nation taught to believe certain
| victory always was obtainable. The
fault always is put on others, and
[ his own .blunders nowhere are recog
nized. He even holds ministers and
generals responsible for the flight to
| Holland Of the kaiser and war lord
| by divine right. By his own confess
| sion the all-highest war lord. who
| had sent millions of Germans to the
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! in danger for the first time. In much
| less danger. of course, than any rear
| trench soldier, who would have been
! shot as a deserter il he had tried to
| flee. The physically courageous
courage that he follows his fathers
| bad example. fleeing over the Dutch
| frontier by night and stopping to
call an old militiaman miserable
| DEVIL" and to swear at him because
L. t.
! we'll fed while he himself was starv-;
| ing. The prince relates this proudly.
| not realizing the incongruity of the
deserter who had not suffered 4
| moment from the war. but dared to
| preach to the old half-starved war
| ways was doing his duty tending
| cattle.
Boasts Informing Father.
He also boasts of giving his father
information about the conduct of
Prince Eulenburg and other friends
of the kaiser. This information was
taken from my articles which pointed
duct. The crown. prince knew my.
| information was true and he now
relates that the kaiser was almost Inn
| mediately convinced and thanked
him tremendously" Despite this the
yers to save his friends and to jail
me as a slandersr. He bullied me for
years with lawsuits, declared the
| oaths Of Eulenburg and his friends
| were authentic testimony and sue
| ceeded in having me condemned. I
was able to protest only when, far
from tho Berlin court atmosphere.
The crown prince was silent before
this abominable farce of Justice. He
| well knew an innocent man was be,
ing prosecuted and was daily in dam
ger of his life for doing what duty
and necessity demanded. Tho crown
prince, watching this shameful bust
ness silently. calls tho kaiser who
perpetrated It mobile in tho highest
sense" and proudly relates after f1f-
teen years that no himself had done
what undoubtedly long had been the
duty of those In official positions
And this intellectual blind man
darss to reproaeh tho German people
for mistakes and blunders in an arro-
giant tone. His efeverly written book,
which gives food to nationalists, can
only do harm. The Germans still are
SO credulous that they imagine they've
scored tremendous success In the
Rapallo treaty and have recovered
their former rank among nations. On
such soil this books evil seed viii
thrive, as the advance sales, outstrip.