Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-16
EX-CROWN PRINCE
PROVEN A COWARD
BY HIS OWN BOOK
Book With Advance Sale
Surprising Masterpieces
of Centuries Is Criticized
by Macmillan Harden
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN
Germany's Foremost Publicist
Ueased Wire Service to The Journal
lCnn,.rt,rht 1922. J

BERLIN, May 15.-Throughout
Germany there had been an advance
sale of 100000 copies of the book
which appeared yesterday entitled
Memoirs of Crown Prince Will
helm" AS the father still signs
himself kaiser and king" so this
eldest son still calls himself "crown
prince" although he officially has
=, renowned all claim to the imperial
Prussian crown. Nobody contra
diets as official documents still speak
OF royal house" and the law does
not compel the Hohenzollerns to use
the family name, nobody marvels
that these Prussian kings and
princes nominally survive the mon
archy.
After the French revolution a
book whose author called himself
Dauphin Of France was confiscated
and when the exiled Conte de Cham
bord called himself King Henry V
he became the laughing stock OF
the Paris boulevards. Even Aus
tria, which seemed inseparatingly at
tached 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 superficialties are as unimpor-
tant from the viewpoint of popular
education as Republicans here de-
clare. I myself do not believe it.
Those who overthrow the monarchy
which existed for half a century
should Danish its ornaments and not
allow celebrations OF the "ail high
ests birthday nor titles like maj
esty, imperial, royal highness, etc.
Otherwise the DEVELOPMENT of a Re
publican spirit will be difficult.
I was hopeful that young Wilhelm,
after 40 months in simple Wieringen
would have acquired a serious out
look on life counteracting an er-
as a malicious blockhead. The book
of this 40 year old man painfully
disappoints this hope. Written with
the help of skillful literary man it
d.scloses no new important facts. 1t
glorifies the military monarchy al
most without censure. 1t represents
all Hohenzollerns as models of moral
and intellectual virtue and repeats
oil I1Hop6Orff linden burg
and company have said about the
conspiracy against Germany. 1t
tries to awaken in the reader the
thought that no human being ever
experienced such ingratitude as this
hard-Working crown prince who fore
saw everything in war and peace,
lived only for his people and his
soldiers, and now is obliged to live
in misery.
The HohenzOllern COwardice
This is what this Hohenzollern
calls a frank honest representation
of facts" His mother is a saint,
his father noble in the highest sense
of the word, brothers brave and in
telligent, army commanders wonder
full strategists and heroes. Not a
word of manly just recognition of
where the least feeling for the suf-
fering of the people whose land was
the scene Of the war and in whose
unfortified towns German bombs
made deep wounds. On the con.
trary the worst invective is used to
prove the malice of the victors and
the unexampled baseness Of the
peace treaty which this, prince calls
criminal and the birth of blind vim
dictiveness" seeming to forget what
terms his family and generals had
decided to impose on the enemy.
The political contents are a mere
repetition of what already has been
said a thousand times in Germany's
defense and are not worth contra
dieting. Ministers are scolded in the
tones of a general yet they were
appointed by the noble kaiser" and
during the war were only puppets
of the military dictatorship. They
are blamed because peace was not
concluded at the right time, before
the great disaster, as if peace would
: have been acceptable to LudendOrft
or to a nation taught to believe GER
tain victory always was obtainable
The fault always is put on others
and his own blunders nowhere are
recognized. He even holds ministers
and generals responsible for the
flight to Holland of the kaiser, and
war lord by Divine Right.
By his own confession the AL
Highest War Lord, who had sent
millions of Germans to the firing
line fled because he might be in
danger for the first time. In mucE
less danger, of course, than any
rear trench soldier who would have
been shot as a deserter if he haC
tried to flee. The physically cour
ageous crown prince has so little
moral courage that he follows his
fathers bad example fleeing Over
the Dutch frontier by night ant
stopping to call an old militiamar
a miserable devil and to swear al
him because he complained that his
officers were well fed while he him
self was starving. The prince re
1ates this proudly not realizing the
incongruity of the deserter who haf
not suffered a moment from the wal
hut dared to preach to the old half
starved warrior who, though com
nIaining. leastways was doing his
dutv tending cattle.