The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24
The KdiSer,S
Memoirs

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which the German people had hailed
the now road. Tho prince remarked
that the matter hardly dcHorvod
this.
Later on | spoke often with the
prince about tho colonia! question
and always found I'm him the lntcn-
ton TO utilize The colonies as COM
mercial objects, or objects for swap
ming purposes. other than 10 make
them useful to the fuiherlnnd or
utilize them as sources of raw ma
terlals. A. was my duty ] called tho
princes attention Go the fact that
merchants and capitalists were bo-
ginning cnoigctically to develop tho
colonies and that therefore ms
had learned from HanHeatlc ,irclcs.-
they counted upon protection from Ia
navy. For this reason. / pointed Out
that steps must be taken Tor getting
fleet constructed lu time, iu order
that German assets in foreign lands
should not ho without protection.
that since the prince had unfurlcd
the German flag in foreign parts
and the people stood behind Do. there
must also be navy behind t.
Bismnrck's Prcposscssiou.
Hut the prince turned dcJf ear
TO my statcmeut8 ana made use OF
his pet motto: "If the English should
land on our sUll I should have them
arrested His idea was that the
colonies would be defended hy va ct
home. Tho prince attached no Inn
portauco 90 tho fact that tho very
assumption that the English could
land without opposition la Germany
since HclieOland was Euglisu-
waa unbcarablc for Germany and
that we. Ia order TO make "a landing
impossible from the start needed "a
sufficiently strong navy. ana, llko-
wise. iIelgoland
The political Interest OF the prince
was In fact concentrated essentially
upon G""tine"ta, ;.a,opo, s". .a"d
lay somcwhQ 10 one side among the
cares thaF burdcuod him daily, an
the moro so since Salisbury stood
well with him and had. In the namc
OF England, hailed with sntiefaction
the double q. q, triple) alliance, At
the time OF its formation. Tho prince
worked primarily with Russia, Aus
tria. Italy and Rumanla, whose n.
lations towards Germany and each
other bo constantly watched over.
As to the prudence and skin with
which he acted Emperor William
tho Great once made a pointed re-
mark TO Won Albodyll, his chief OF
cabinet.
The general found his majesty
much excited after a talk with Bls-
marck. to such an extent that he
feared for the health OF tho old em-
peror. lilo remarked, therefore. that
his majesty should avoid similar
worry In future. that, IL Blsmarck
.NsFI1 A.. 4. IL.
wished, hts majesty should dismiss
him, Whercuponl the emperor re-
piled that, despite his admiration
and gratitude toward the great chan
cellor, he had already thought OF
dismissing him, since the self-con-
-cious attitude Of the prince became
at times too oppressive. Hut both
he and the country needed Bismarck
too badly. Bismarck was the one
man who could juggle five balls OF
which at least two were always In
the air That trick, added the 0m-
peror. was beyond his own powers.
Britain Not Important.
Prince Bismarck did not realize
that, through the acquisition OF colo-j
niles for Germany, he would be-
obliged to look beyond Europe and
be automatically forced 10 act, po-
lltlcally. on n large scale---wiih Eng
land especially. England, TO he sure.
was one OF the five balls In his
Internationally game, but
she was merely one OF the five and
he did not grant her the special Inn
portance which was hor due.
For this reason II was that tho
foreign office likewise was involved
entirely In the continental interply
of politics, had not the requieitc in
terest In colonies, navy or England
and possessed no experience In world