The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Memoirs of the Ex-C Grown Prince

, you; keep your fresh naturalness.'
He gave me a kiss and I dashed out
Of the room" He saw the Iron
Chancellor again when he attended
the celebration of his eightieth birth
day at Friedrichsruh. ION this
beautiful day, which would not for
all that is dear to me have blotted
out of my memory, had seen for
the last time the greatest German
of his century"
The Crown Prince had, too, great
admiration for Edward VII. He says
that he had scarcely ever met any
other person who understood as
Edward did how to charm the people
with whom he came in contact. IAN
excellent reader Of character and a
cool tactician, he gained a permanent
success wherever he interposed his
personality" Had Edward lived
longer, the Crown Prince says, he
would probably not have stopped at
the creation Of Triple Entente but
would perhaps have built bridge
between the Entente and the Triple
Alliance and thus have brought into
being the United States Of Europe.
He, but only he, could have done it."
For a young man credited by
scandal mongers with many esca-
pades his memoirs appear remark
ably free from anything shocking.
He pays a sincere and beautiful
tribute to his wife for having been
the best and most faithful friend and
companion, a tender helpmate and
mother and for holding to him un-
swervingly in fortune and distress.
whenever We saw such things as
The Divorce Of the Crown Prince
Imminent my wife and I had good
laugh over the matter"
He says that he was always par
ticularly close to his mother; that
she was his chief friend and adviser,
and that in many of the difficulties
which arose between him and his
father she mediated with a soothing,
smoothing and adjusting hand. ITO
the strictly religious character Of her
ethical views is also to be attributed
her urgent desire that we, her sons.
should enter wedlock pure and un-
touched by experiences with other
women" he writes. "And whatever
nonsense may have been early cir
culated about me I, at any rate, can
not have greatly disappointed herr
w.
The charges of inefficiency at the
battle of the Marne and of the reck-
less sacrifice of lives in the attack
on Verdun he denies with indigna-
ton. Most of his critics, he says,
tell very little of the Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh armies, with which he was
chiefly concerned. He was in COM
mand of the Fifth Army. and this, he
says, withdrew from the field only
after all of it's wounded had been
removed in perfect order and took
up new positions with a strong
sense of superiority"
In his opinion it was an unfor-
tunate combination Of many circum-
stances which led to the pernicious
result. Besides the unquestionable
incompetence and the consequent
moral and physical collapse Of Gen.
Won Moltke there was the unfor-
tunate and rapidly discouraged lead
ership of the Second Army by Gen.
Won Bulow and the absolutely dis
astrous activity of an officer of the
Headquarters staff, who. oppressed
by sense of responsibility and per-
sonal pessimism, assumed verbal
order given to meet a particular
emergency as comforting full power
upon him and so occasioned retreat
of the two victorious armies on the
wings before decision had been
reached"
Gen. Won Moltke was never a 70
bust man. When on the urgent rec
ommendation of his most intimate ad-
visers the Kaiser in 1906 called him
to the chief position on the General