Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-03
EVEN GERMANS ARE
BORED BY MEMOIRS
Of FORMER KAISER
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN,


possibly some convinced militarist
now will try to play the famous
Turkish leaders, part in our political
theater. Even steadier heads might
be turned by KemaIs example.
The Sevres treaty treated Turkey
like, condemned criminal for whom
| it was only a question into which
dungeon he was to be thrown.
Curzon, Poincare and Sforza's joint
note now treats Turkey as a great
power whose valuable friendship
must be bought at any price. Eng
land, France and Italy offer Tur-
key the preservation of her own in.
terests, the Adrianople-Mari
frontier, the evacuation of Constan-
tinople and even invite her to join
the League of Nations wherein the
Turks will help to supervise the
straits of the Dardanelles and shell
ter religious and national minori-
ties.
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
communicates call 'regrouping."
Concessions Necessary
England was obliged to make
these concessions to protect her Pc
troleum hopes and on account of
Egypt and India. But didn't the
signers realize how this extremely
deferential note cancelling the obi.
cations of Sevres, would react on
the other conquered peoples, especial.
ly 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 leaders far from the capital
and foreign control and to their
chief they gave the powers of a die
tator. They defeated their neigh
boring enemies and now they are
handled as gently by the entente
as a basket OF eggs. Let's do the
same"
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 Berlin as in Athens.
The idea of creating a continent
tai Angora in Bavaria, or Pome-
rama, or Silesia, or East Prussia
is disturbing some brains from their
last shreds of reason. The gate is
wide open for ambitious princes,
generals, admirals and adventurers
who imagine themselves Bonapartes
for at the moment the Hohenzol-
lern standard is somewhat dropping.
The news of Wilhelm's second mar
riage, the private reasons for.
which are too delicate to discuss,
has frightened and angered many
monarchists. The formula: 1.-THE
poor lonely kaiser longs for a
sympathetic heart in his exile" has
of
ed. Women especially have revolt
ed over his marrying a woman 80
years younger so soon after his first
wife died and then saying it is for
love.
Scores Ex-Kaiser
Wilhelm's great grandfather,
Friedrich Wilhelm II, never was
forgiven for replacing the sanity
Queen Louise with another. When
the victor at Jena was vanquished
at Waterloo he dictated his memo
ries in real, not pretended, exile
in the austere little house in st.
H elena and he left the proceeds to
his faithful companion, La Scales.
Wilhelm Won Hohenzollern, who
called Napoleon a Corsican parvenu
and himself the chosen OF God; who
lives in royal splendor in Doom
castle with a silver treasure worth
many million dollars, surrounded
by costly furniture, gold, bronze,
and art treasures, never has money
for war victims or even old serV-
ants, but has received from his
memoirs Of the misrortunes of the
German peoples at least half bill
lion paper marks. This divine right
ex-emperor, who as head of the
evangelical church repeatedly warn
ed against mammon, is more bust
ness like in these matters than
Lloyd George, who does not keep a
penny from his memoirs.
Memoirs BOresOme
Moreover, Wilhelm's book-which
contains less novelty than can be
agreeable to the man who purchas-
ed the rights before reading-re-
quires patience to read, and even
German patriots find it boreson:e.
Even those will scarcely believe that
this kaiser who ruled more autocrat-
ically than a car, foresaw every
thing rightly but was prevented
from carrying out his noble designs
by chancellors who, 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 ,dy who soon will
get the answer he deserves. With its
ugly profiteering it can only add one
scandal to the many, mostly hushed,
which have taken place in dethron.
ed royal houses in late years.
Millions will starve this winter.
Our bread is so bad that British
workmen here for study won't eat it.
Child mortality has terribly increas-
ed through lack of milk and inherit.
ed disease horribly frequent since
the war. Public charities are so
hllrdened that even t11herc11lar. ma.