The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-13
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 Gets Navy By Trickery
 The other day, the Emperor spoke to me about the new naval budget law which, by trickery, he had per suaded Parliament to pass. The mem. bers of Parliament had no idea how elastic was the law which they had voted on and passed, since this law de. mands nothing less than that Parlia- ment grant .whateveD ships the Emperor chooSes to demand Last winter the Centrum party began to see light and offered an entire new division of ships of the line, provided the Emperor were willing to forego the budget law. But the Emperor said to me:
 "I turned down their offer with thanks. Why, with the help of this new law l can get as many ships of the line as I want. This law is like a corkscrew. Any time I feel like it, I can use it to open the bottle All right. Let the fizz foam out and hit the cell ing. What do I care? These dogs of members of Parliament are going to pay until they are blue in the face. Now I have them completely in my hand and there is no power on earth that will prevent me from getting out of them everything I canw
 Early this year, (farch, 1905) I had a long conversation with the chief of the military cabinet, Count Huelsen-Haeseler, about the dangerous conditions in our army, due to per sonal and egotistic ambitions. The count agreed with me and said that, chiefly where the training of the in- fantry in shooting is concerned, there has developed an inter-regimenta envy and competition which is almost dis honest, whose only object is to hang up records. In a number of cases com panies were unable to pass muster in the A-B-C of war. It is significant that many officers who have connived at this have been the recipients of inn perial favors. ~t-.t
 asked General Huelsen-H Haeseler if it would not be advisable for him to explain the entire situation fully and frankly to His Majesty. But the count shook his head nervously and replied No, No!p adding that it was quite useless to tell the Emperor a truth if this truth happened to be disagree. able
 His Ideas Of Decay Simple " !,
 A few days ago the Emperor spoke to small circle about his fight against the Union club and gambling generally. He described in detail what difficul- ties he had when he was still Prince Wilhelm in endeayoring to combat gambling and how, early during his reign, he had been forced to use drastic measures to control it. He insisted that gambling and corruption are synonymous insisted, furthermore, that, but for his efforts and his ruth. less energy, we would be faced today in Berlin by a general state of corrup- tion fully as vicious as that which is undermining Russian society. Of course, the Emperor's vivid imagina. tion gives him an entirely false picture of conditions, chiefly considering his ignorance of the world at large and of ordinary human psychology. He be- lieyes that corruption is the sole cause of Russia's threatening breakup.
 Hypocrisy! Dangerous, pharisee hypocrisy
 Here and there. during the course of this year (190S) a strong element of religions mysticism has crept into the Emperor's public speeches and private