Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
Ex-Kaiser Denies War Guilt

tiful grounds and building of Union
College, where my father graduated In
1885. He obtained license as chauf-
feur in the City of New York by amaz-
ing the traffic policeman at the corner
OF Sixth avenue and Forty-Second street.
He rode on the Twentieth Century
Limited locomotive all the way to
Albany, and when he dropped of he
and the driver we're friends.
Placed on Ford's Pay Roll.
Henry Ford let him pilot one of his
planes to Chicago and then put him
on his pay roll-$20o a month. Show
me, If you can, another of his rank
tossed from world of parade and pal
aces into the machine shops of Henry
Ford and Immediately being accepted
as the real stuff"
What Louis Ferdinand is earning at
this moment of writing / know not,
but he has had a promotion-so he
writes me-and his progress is there
fore satisfactory.
asked the Kaiser If he approved of
what I had recommended Louis Ferdi-
nand to do while under my theoretical
wing in America, and he answered af-
Tentatively. Tins refers to the journey
OF the young prince to Washington to
make his bow before President Hoover.
OF course, I know that protocol pref
erence and official red tape are more
binding on the Potomac than on the
Thames, the Seine or the Tiber, and
that no alien can be ordinarily pre-
sented save by permission of his AM
bassador.
But I also felt that for direct de-
scendent Of Queen Victoria to visit
America and fail to present himself
at the White House would be open to
criticism, therefore I chose the course
that appealed to me as the simplest
under the circumstances. ! wrote to
Mr.. Hoover, and wrote to our Secre-
tary of State. To each explained that
he, the prince, was the first Hohenzol-
lorn to visit America since the war and
was travelling incognito.
Prince Fails Of Reception.
Knowing that the German Ambassa-
dor was hostile to monarchy in the
person of his late Emperor and bene-
factor I suggested that a meeting be
arranged as by accident in order that
no diplomatic incident" might result
The prince went to Washington, his
Ambassador declined to present him at
the White House; Mr.. Hoover declined
to see him without a diplomatic tag;
Mr.. Stimson could but follow the lead
of his chief, and so DIR. Louis Ferdi-
| nand returned to me as one who had
obeyed instructions and earned the re-
ward of duty done-a barren reward
| in many cases.
The Kaiser discussed this matter
! philosophically, though he might have
! been forgiven had he shown anger at
the cold shoulder shown to his grand
son.
| Oddly enough, no newspaper has yet
mentioned this episode. 1t may prove
more interesting Is years hence.
There was a case analogous when
Mark Twain visited Berlin and our then
envoy, William Walter Phelps, refused
| to present this Industrious humorist at
court. The Kaiser himself arranged a
private supper at the house of a mutual
| friend. The American Envoy was not
/ invited. 1t was never in the papers, no
| protocol was violated; two interesting
| men met and exchanged stOrieS-both
were the better for this informal meet
ing
The Kaiser spoke enthusiastically Of
Mark Twain and also OF Kiplings verses
and tales. This latter was rather un-
expected, because Kipling's TRADE
against the Hun might have offended
the ears of a Prussian Monarch. But,
as / have said before, the Kaiser Is a
second Macaulay in the uniyersality
and catholicity OF his reading-and he
does not limit himself to those VINO
agree with him.
Queen Victoria was, suspect. rather
disrleased with him who wrote nrsv-