, 1922-11-16
n KAIsER's MEMOIRS,
ALL SWIVEL AND DRIVEL,
ARE SURELY A RLOOMER
rLaramie Republicanl

Laramie Republican,
rhe annual recurrence of Armistice
4 will always call to the mind the
twhile Kaiser and the part that he
kyed in the great war. Much in
est was felt. in his Memoirs up to
time of their publication, but
rdly had they begun to appear by
btallments in some of the great
lilies than it was at once apparent
at not only would they contribute
thing to the history Of the causes
d conduct of the war. butthat they
Suld simply substantiate what a
arful liar this last of the Hohen-
llerns always has been and still is.
think of paying the great sum for
is stuff that a great American firm
d is almost Incredible, and now
at they have been issued in book
brm one can scarcely believe that
nyone would buy them, except as a
terary curiosity.
In a recent number of the New
FORK Times Book Review Joseph
collins reviews them, and a more en-
ertaining sketch or a keener an
klysis of a book that one had ex-
bected much from has not been writ
EN- in many a day. Mr.. Collins say
|that' the Kaiser assumes an Uriah
DHsep attitude from the very first
Paragraph. He assumes the blame
Nor nothing, hi passes the buck on
everything. He gives the most trivial
excuses for any terrible act, and in
his feigned humility maligns the
memories of all whom he should have
held sacred. The Kaiser tells of the
little things that he did in the way
of relieving distress, as IL to offset
such things as Belgian atrocities. He
created a fund for his domestics and
their families for trips to bathing re-
sorts. etc. He advocated a fund to
take care Of the families of those who
were injured in accidents, etc. In
other words he wishes to give the i'm
preston that he was always inter-
ested in what we call social welfare.
which draws this caustic comment
from Mr.. Collins:
Page after page of this sort of
SWIVEL and rivel, which is not only
misleading, but provocative of a com
bination of disagreeable bodily sensa-
tons and spiritual depression that
no words can convey. 1t is as If a
brutal man on trial for rape should
offer in p%alliation of his crime the
evidence that he had once lifted into
the warmth a kitten found mewing
outside his door,
1t isn't possible in the limits of a
single item to reproduce all of this
review, but here are Mr.. Collins con-
%clusfona:
William H." he says, played the
role OF s~washbuckler in Germany, and
now he rs playing the role of Uriah
Heep in Doom. He gave far great
er verisimilitude to the former than
to the latter character. II posterity
should Judge him by the Memoirs its
verdict would be that he was a stupid
individual of infantile makeup, a
Narcissus-like creature given to at
tempts at Standardization through
falsehood. He will not, however, be
judged by the Memoirs. No one but
Eluenbergs will be in the least in
fuenced by them. unless and we
are permitted to hope that she is
sufficiently credulous to do SO -
Princess Herminie of Reuss may be-
Ne them. II he believes what he
- written In this book he Is a mad
man: II he expects the American pub
lie to believe II he Is as unfamiliar
with American psychology now as he
showed himself to be a few years
ago. Kaiser Wilhelm II. has made
himself immortal. first by his infamy.
second by his stupidity. He commit
ted the greatest crime the world has
ever known: he conditioned and
fostered the war and he has written
the stupidest book OF the twentieth
Gentry. By doing the latter he has
cleared himself OF the accusation Of
lunacy. but he has laid himself open
to have substituted for It that of
imbecility."
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