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THE NEW PRIEKINI'IKNIK V
No. 1
FARRABION NE
Boda By Lwabena Achatten. PaĪDI 19 EMLAKA, D. ÚN.
INTERVIEW WITH A FALLEN EMPEROR.
1
"I FEEL I DID MY DUTY."
A correspondent of the Associated Press has had an interview with the former Austriaó Emperor. In a tele- gram sent from Vienna, ho saya: authorise you to say that not a single day should be lost by America and the Allies in helping Lac people here, so grave is the situation,' said the ex- Emperor Charles to me in the course of an interview at his Castle of Eckartenu, where his Majesty and the Empress are living together with their five little children.
The interview was granted after the request had been transmitted through the Presidents of the Council of the German Austrian Republic, when I was permit ted to motor some twenty-five miles to the aatle, which is located in the centre of a vast farming plain. Here I received by the Emperor, whose slight figure, dressed in EL general's uniform, and apparently vigorous but youth ful face gave signs of recent stress. There were lines about his blue eyes, and Certainly appears to feel keenly the Em pire about him. However, he cordially Greeted me, and, shaking hands with a strong and friendly grip motioned me obair at the table, taking another himself. He spoke first in English, and then lapsed into French. He said:
be
Brent tragedy of the collapse of bie
to
GREATER THAN VALODR
A GLIMPSE OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S MIND.
[BY HAROLD SEGÐIR}
Few man in this country are so pene trated by the thought of what victory over Germany bae entailed in terms of buman suffering as the Prime Minister. I and the key to every action in his life from August, 1914, down to these Decom- bor days of a General Election in the tremendous urge of this one thought.
I have just been talking to him, in his Barray cottage, seeing him in
горове, catching the man of action at rest, observing the turbulent spirit in ite stolen hour, of, reflection. He was inclin- éd to lie far back in his chair, to stretch ont his legs till the feet rested on the brick bearth, to pull slowly and luxuri
sly at 'his pipe, and to listen rather than to speak.
But of a sudden this mood, so richly earned, was thrown off, just as a man who sees a child drowning might fing off his coat.
He was out of the chair in a moment. With his head down, bis
I am very glad to see American
brows contracted, and his eyes almost who represents the pountry which also fierce with the mastery of his thought, he worked for peace. I worked for peace stood on the brick hearth, as though i always, during the war. One of my gon-Were a platforma, and, using the stem of stant pre-occupations was to get food his pipe to drive home his words, spoke with which to feed the soldiers and with Buch, depth in font people, but now, notwithstanding all earnestness, such instant and command efforts, it is most distressing to and no ing passion as I have heard from him more left for them. If America and the before on private mocasions only twice Allies do not recognise this fact, the into this mental activity was the thought The mastering thought which drove him suffering here will be very great withip of the suffering wrought by the Prussian
few weeks; indeed, it is already 80, crime
and
every day which we do not nesinar It was a singularly impressive incident endeavouring to get food is a day lost.
bo
SPIRIT OF THE MAN.
As all the world knows, the Prime Minister is a short man, but a man with the chest and shoulders of a guardsman, and with the huge hand of a giant. To see him standing of the brink hearth of bis little drawing room, and to listen to his words, was bo feel he spirit of the man filling the whole room, was to feel also that the very body of the man assumed enormous proportions, was to be Sonscious of a power transcending all human measurement..
quiok upward jork of his head, added, "Yes, that is what our soldiers have done"
He went back to his chair, but, tura- ing about again, came to the fire, and, teking a spill from the mantelpicco, stooped down to light it at the smoulder- ing flames.
We have done our best, and more cannot done. If the food and goal is not brought we shall have disorders in Vienna, and possibly also that disease from Ruesis which we call Bolshevism, The people here are kind and patient but when anyone is without food he is apt to do many saugue and violent things
Looking back, we may recall that Bolshevism started in Rusia be cause of the lack of food. I think it to the interest of the Allies to aid as, se Bolshevism, when started, may spread and become a danger to the Allies to the voice never rose above conversational Although he was speaking with passion, Our food and coal situation is worse tone was indeed lower than usual, and because of the transportation conditions the horas did not come, as is customary as the
rallways have become badly dish bit fast and carelessly in a hurry organised lately. Regarding our future to reach their climax, but slowly, jerkily. cannot speak; of the past, I can only with pauses between them, as though his repeat that I feel I did Aver
mind purdied, some final and eaping I to hops pense will bring good coagh, which language taust fail to fortune, happier days and
"aut How-
andings among a peoples odors overtake goons,
all
andden emergency the meanest of us tight be Brave. Once or twice in his life coward might do noble things. But for an hour, nor for a day, nor for a think what these, men did. It was not wook, nor for a month, nor for a vens that they did fine things.
"Yes," he said again, "that is what our soldiers have done."
When be got back to his choir be iny far back in it, his legs outstretched, and pulled away at his pipe with his oyes bent on the fire.
I said, "Surely this spirit of the sol diers has changed the soul of the world."
"I wonder," he said.
"Our world, I mean, our little Eag- lish world."
"Ahi the world of these little islands, so small but so mighty, so little and su tremendously important." Yes, our world" I think it has," he said. "Yes, I think it has, No-l'in porfectly sure it has. Yes, you Hore and there one is though the endurance of our soldiers had astonished by a spirit which seems sa
made no difference, as if the frightful abominations of the war had been nothing more than a nightmare; but the boart of the nation, the heart of the na tion, as a whole, that has been touched. I won't say at present it has been chang. od. That is a tremendous word. But believe with my whole soul the heart the country has been profoundly touched
deeply penetratingly
pervasively touched--and
it is changing. The next few months will show.
Whether the change is real character worthy to be mentioned as a I mean whether the change is of a
consequence of our soldiers' endurance."
want it to be a great change!"
Q this hour, "he said, " I cannot thes interview, the corres | think of the heroism, of our soldiers with "the Emperor showed no gut wonder-without wonder and rever towards the Allie and Loverica ace. There has never been in the history because of their military victory, though) of manking, such a courage in theirs, it was inferred that he was heart sore nu Never Think what it was. The least of the destruction of the army, and also it is capable of a flash of valour. In s at the fact that he had been unable to preserve the Empire intact, since he feels sincerely that the breaking up of the Empire into small groups of nations is bound to bring polities and economie disaster to all, and that some sort of central Government is necessary to their ocomon interests. It was pointed out EYOND ALL WORDB.
me by officers that the Emperor's Year after year their life was a fine whole heart, soul, and mind contred
on thing. It was not valour they displayed; securing the welfare of the poople of the it was not even beroism; it was some Empics, that, during the war the ples that man has created no word for it. be worked thing to new and terrible, so undreamed eighteen hours a day with
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Yosore's great work ahead of
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us isn't there!
And work which can't be done with out a change of heart?"
"Can
He came forward in his chair. we hope to make this country," he asked, worthy of those who died to save it, worthy of those who endured the four years of this war that froodom might not be trodden ander the iron heel of Prussianism, unless we see life-the life of humanity-with different eyes! Could we have won the war-now, con- sider this could we have won the war if we had looked at it with our old eyes?"!
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to walk restlessly about the little room,
He got up from his chair, but this time
"Suppose we had looked at the war,” eyes; suppose we had seen it as some- ha said, su it to himself, " with our old
thing that did not bind us man to man, aa something that did not call for sacri- Ace, as something that did not demand service and sacrifice the service of all, the sacrifice of all-not only the service and sacrifice of the soldier, not only the service and sacrifice of the sutler, not only the service and sacrifice of the work- men, but the service and sacrifice of women and children, the whole nation helping to save Great Britain from de struction-could we have won the war ↑ And if we look at the task before us with our old eyes, fedling no call for service and sacrifice, feeling no horror for defeat and no passion for victory, can we hope to create a country which the whole world will say is our British menu- ment to our British dead! That is the monument I want to create. And it can only be created by interior cffort, by perpetual sacrifice, and by faith in the future of man's soul-our monument to our Dead.
"Faith, that is," I said, "in what Arnold called man's perfection?
sure of hunting a few hours weekly in try to find some word to define it, to order to get fresh air, that he was much anggest it; and I can't. The nearest burt at the stories circulated in Allied word can get is other lives; and they stood over me, his pipe in his hand, his countries about the looseness of his in hell every
Endurance. were Ho came to me in a quick stride and
private life and his drunkenness when, sadured. They were in peril of denth, eyes, full of heaviness.
ak a matter of fact, he drinks but a glass and worse than the defendured in justice, in truth,
day day, With faith," he said, " with faith
of wine or beer at lunch and never at night, after nights and
dinner.
EX-EMPRESS AND CHILDREN.
in righteousness, They were exposed to all the nerve this
pation-oh, think what it shattering rage of artillery, artillery could create!
Imagine LIS all in which rived the soil like an earthquake, the same spirit which won the war con- which hurled the bodies of the dead, into
monument to our soldiers' valour. endur
What a monument that would be! No.
'The correspondent was also received by the pit, and flung the bodies of the Nving the our bounden duty of raising
In
But nothing of which a man who loves his
the ox-Empress Zita, was shown, the into a deeper sepulchre; and they children, especially the Crown Prince of They went out into the darkness to bitterness between class and class, no poi Oo, and he was given an intimate view hesta, to break a
the trenches of the enemy, to soming injustice, no hateful tyranny, no of the Imperial family, which continues to mashine gun heat to of which justice, no ugliness, no poverty, no slums between man and man, no in- despite the unfortunate situation.
bountry need be either ashamed or afraid, ashamed or afraid-nothing but national unity seeing the perfection of this fair monumenta nobler, grander, happier. truer Britain. Do it! Do it Of course we could do it.
something more.
view of the food conditions, which apply deafened men, and they endured But everywhere, the correspondent had per me, They endured for all these years a mission to present the childron with a 2lb box of American chocolates Speak unnatural, and horrible beyond the ex- manner of life utterly unnatural utterly ing in English, the Empress thanked him pression of words. elfusively for the gift, saying: For two
Gar *people are the cleanest in years we have not had a real chocolate. Europe to keep their bodies clean is one It is also most difficult to obtain milk of their joys, a part almost of their
FAITH AND BACRIFICE.
The British people could do anything
for the children, without which not only religiod; and think how they lived! mine, but all other children will become they lived in mud, and worse than mud; And all that is wanted is faith, and stanted in their growth and perhaps fall they lived in nutterable filth, breathing the spirit of sacrifice. Think how near She is not considered a beautiful an air that choked the lungs with disgust, we are to the millenaid only a thin woman, but her manner, is gracious and their young bones serqualor, choir self-sacrifice, a little faith, a little self. bodied attacked by vermin, partition keeps us book! Faith and expansive Like her husband, she shows evidences of recent carce and deepened which one dare not speak about. And old Britain to the new, from the darkness
hands
touching at every tarn things saorifice, and we should pass from the Apprehension for the future, since it possible sadder days are yet to come our people are the most domesticated in to the ligat, from war to ponce,"
He has a score of moods." Europe our climate has formed us into family remains in Abatria.
No meu that It is
Ile is every-
the entire war has worked hard to help exiled to sad thus, young men ware thing. But in this moment, off duty in from their homes, were forood to his cottage, with the burdens of his office bor husband. It has been stated that live almost entirely without the graso laid aside for a few precious moments, the Imperial life has not been especially and charm and consolatiga of women, and the soul free to contemplate, no it. happy since the Empress was criticised were obliged to herd together in great were, the whole orb of existchco, I sent as na Italian, and also that she intercompanies, in a foreign country, and noted to see what is at the back of his mind, fored State Councils when the Minis only a foreign country, but a torn and ters' okno to seg her husband,
blasted country from which the sulpliur Cruel reports were alas circulated scrub dames of Batanism had scorched the to the Emperor's loose private Life. He leaf of the moanest word. was said to be a hard drinker, whereas GO KUHPHÁT THEY ENDURED.
at
that
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inspiring not only his noblest and most pastionate activities, but even his acuto.. nese and his swollen political energies, a dentro for a more reasonable world, an undying, memory of the sacrament offered. up by our soldiers on tho altar of tho battlefeld.
um persuaded, I am convinced, that.
the ladies and officers in attendance RE and the correspondent that the family
There they
hoy Ifvod, always in the pro elations of the Imperial
sence of death, always in the midst of Were forfect, and that he was onder horror, always, on rack of torture, andways at the back of his mind is this onker ne to exhaust all those about him, rack which stretched and tortured not thought of the suffering, and the sacrißoe,
Isanimio that he has
the muscle of the body, but every nerve, and the endurance, of the British soldier, will of his and the whole mind, and the antigo soul,
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ho was set on making and they endured. You, they endured, Song: though his wdvisors claimed that enduredings
with by doing so he dug his own political pattonce, oven with humour, and, at tho
Jazingxpressible; sgohy arave, as the war, spirit of the people and, finging themselves upon the enemy, slackened when it was known he was so they drove him headlong, drave him put dinpored. He also loss the hearty sip of his brunches, want him flying, beat him, nort of the German nepulation of the to hlf knots. There has boon nothing Empire, when they felt he desired to like this in the history of the world!“ Whine will become of the family is morete standing in the bearth, looking bares. They have addressed a request matter, of conjecture, thoughs they talk down at me, as though he doubted who to every workman to send in serviceable
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