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In bringing to 'conclusion in the Sunday Times the series of excerpts that have been appearing in that journal from his forth- coming book, "The Genesis of the War," Mr. Asquith gives a study of the personality Mr. and mentality of the ex-Kaiser. Asquith does not regard the ox-Kainer's book, My Memories," as “a serious con- tribution to history, though it has a value of its own from the light, that it throws upon an interesting and complex character. Mr. Asquith's own summary of this is: William 11, if he had been born in a private station. had natural endowments His which might have carried him far, langer even then woull have been a restless versatility of both wind and character and a lack of the power and the will to concen irate, which in the long run makes the
difference between the amateur and the expert. His very gift, in tio environment by which he was encircle-to quote a once fauone line of a now forgotten Victorian poet-came to nothing more than
zigzag streak of lightning in the brain." To the memory of tlie Emperor Frederick, the former Prime Minister page worthy 1ribute as that of the most blaineless and -literal-minded care in the annals of the Hohenzollern dynasty."brough his Father, the Euperce, William mime to the throne on a dazzling beight of irresponsible power. Bismarck and Moltke had sectored for the old Kingdom of Prussin the Im perial Crown of a sewuud united Germany. France for the time bing was out of action. From the anaturg mayurchy there was no longer danger, und, indeed. it had lecitno the Abeile and subservient friend. England sat remota in sea-girt isolation as far aloof as the United States of America.
"At first, and, indeed, for a long time. all appeared to go well. The new Kaiser. with his devotion, which never failed or Haiged, to the eares and labours of his office, his many-sided interests, his in- satiable cariosity, bi conseless itineraries, turn for thetoric his demagogic
of the picturesque and Asiatic type, hia unshakable faith in the divine mission of the Hobepzollerns and the future of the Fatherland, soon became the most in- teresting and the best-advertised: figure This was u in the Continental world. situation so dizze in. its altitudes, actual and potential, and so, intoxicating in ita-atmospher, that it might well have turned any bat an exceptionally standy bead. A still more gidly minence proved too much even for Nagoleon, and William 11. was not a Napoleon, nor even a Frederick the Great..To a man of his up-bringing and temperament the allarements were fatal; he list, and never afterwards recovered, his balance
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What Mr. Aerith happily calls the iiate whirl lepths of spiritual inebriety the Kaiser could fall was strikingly demonstrated in his famous outburst he de. at Konigsberg in 1910 when clared himself to be "the instrument of the Lord." Sul stuff, at once ludicrous and and nauseating, from the lips of a man of 50," comments Mr. Asquith. But, as Mr. Asquith proceeds to show, the evid. nee is overwhelming that the Kaiser was rarely allowed to see or know the truth about himself.
A shrewd observer, the Austrian Count Czernin, happened to meet him at almost the only time in his reign when he was, for the moment gively and almost universally "upopular at any urte, i Berlin. It was in the mutuain of 19 8, in the hukuk created by The Daily Telegraph interview, when he had ben publicly humiliated in the Reichstag be iis Chancellor. Prince Talow. I 1-1," says Count Canin, that in William II. Tawa mo wh, for the first time in bis life, with horror strieken, yes. Ioked upon the world as it really was. He sw brutal reality in clown roximby For the first time in his life, perhaps, he felt his position on bis throne to be a little. insecure." Ife forgot hi· lesson quickly. Had the German people often treated the German, Emperor as they did then it might have cured him.". Ard
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in the end "he succumbed to the fatal lot that awaits men who feel the earth recede from under their feet, and who hepin to believe in their Divine Bem- blate"
The Kaiser was a poor julge of men; neither happy in the choice of his advisers nor constant to those he had chosen. Ob casionally he would give a certain amount of confidence to independent outsid rs of the type of Herr Ballin, who was one of the last to see him before the final catastrophe, and who records that he found him. "as usual, very much misinformed." Mr. Asquith deals with that section of the Royal niemoirs which deal with the abdication; step taken by the broken potentate on the Mfr. Akquith's advice of Hindenburg. concluding comments are:
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He discusses one after anather the alternatives which were open to him, and gives his reasons for rejecting them all. What were they? To go with regiment to the front, hurl himself with r upon the "nemy, and seek death in some last attack. This, he points out, wou'd have delayed, and perhaps prevented, the arinistice, already is course of negotiation, and meant the "useless sacrifice of the lives of many soldiers.**********
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