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THE long silence at Doorn was rarely broken in the

post-war years. Of t the countless human' tragedies caused by the world war few can have awakened a smaller sympathetic re- sponse than that which be- fell the German Emperor.

William II did not want the war. In his own justifi- cation he has protested in the bitterness of his heart that he did not cause the war. But the almost uni- versal belief in those terrible years that he was its author does not explain why the most glittering and power- ful monarch of modern

August 12, 1941.

The ex-Kaiser, Wilholm 11, died in June at Doorn, where he had boen in exile for 23 years. In this picture, họ is shown "at!right"|"confarring" with the late Field Marshal Paul von

·Hindenburg in 1917, de

Russia was mobilising her army of a million along the frontier fell like a thunderbolt. The 'ond · ́ had come. If we are to bleed to death," was all he could any, "England shall at all events loss India." After all the fine mar

tial phrases he had bestowed upon his army and directed against other nations, he entered upon war a desperate man,

"Let the politicians," he com- manded, "hold their tongues in war-time until the stintegists pormit them to speak." Almost as soon as the words were out -of his mouth he had become the vietim and sinve of his own reckless axiom.

He never risked his life. He remained aloof from the fight- ing fronts. In his public speeches he was full of brag- gudocio.

The Emperor Who

times was left after his fall in an abyss of silent derision, It was be- cause he ran

Ran

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el into utter insignificance.

Away

By A. J. Cummings

In his private talks he repeat- ed and amplified the niost Ex- treme. and absurd optimis- tic gossip. He refused to read adverse reports of the political or military situn- tion. He disliked to. have about

Hongkong Telegraph. From the moment it was self-conceit became in part a turnstances, putting his own him men ready to tell him the

Tuesday, Aug. 12, 1941.

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his Empire to the finali he had stolen across the as the embodiment of aesthetic test, Was something for frontier into Holland his culture in Europe. But his cul- which he had never bargained. people ceased to have any ture was spurious and his know. It is perhaps true to say that, I must have been a terrible moment of illumination when in spite of all his blustering, further use for a man whose ledge shallow.

he was told brusquely by buccaneering ejaculations, there Courage seemed to end in He continued, his reign as he was no ruler who dreaded war was no longer behind him and General Groner that the Army began it, wrapped up in his own on the grand scale as much as would march quietly home only grandeur and in his conception William dreaded it. He hated and feared Eng- of the divinity of kingship. His

under its own generals. land. Most of all he hated first act as Emperor was to

He pondered but, rejected a and feared his uncle, King appeal not to the people but to WHEN the news was brought hero's death.

Edward re- the Army. "I and the Army," to him of the assassination The faithful Hindenburg's de- and on alongside the new de- turned the compliment by ho declared, "we were born for of the Archduke and his wife at mand that he should abdicate Serajevo he was conducting the and depart for Holland "with- velopments, which are principal scarcely troubling to con- each other."

annual regatta in Kiel week and ly the occupation of French ceal his contempt for Ger- He got rid of Bismarck, who enjoying himself. immensely. out delay" left him lifeless with

indecision. "I never Indo-China and the threat to many's knight in shining for more than thirty years had A motor-boat approached his Russia-at the moment little

been the dominant power in yacht. The Emperor signalled cried. "It would be like a cap- more than an allegation. There

Germany, and he made a sad that he was not to be disturbed. tain deserting a sinking ship."

went. "Well, if it is reason to think that the This is the kind of marginal mess of Bismarck's policy. Bis. But the officer in the boat But he

daringly persisted. Waving on must be so... but not before Japanese army of occupation in note he wrote on documents marck had two simple objects high a dispatch, he thrust it to-morrow morning." Indo-China will not seriously, de-dealing with the English King the isolation of France and the into a cigarette-case and hurled plete Japan's strength in China and English policy:

And so in the early dawn the consolidation of the German it on board. A sailor picked it and that this bold move which "Lles! The dog is lying! Empire. To this end he aimed up and presented it to his man who had made a thousand fiery speeches--the last proud has been accomplished without England! Uncie ! 1 most at rvoiding a risk of collision sovereign,

When the Kaiser read the dis- representative of the Hohenzol- a blow: will not cost her dearly charming fellow, this King between Austria and Russia.

patch he was furious. Not lerns, the great romantic-drove -on-the-war fronts from which Edward VII.! Ineffable check! -He-mude_it_a_rule_thut Ger-grieved. Ho cared little-for-the-way for ever_from_the_land_of_ she has squeezed the few Pharisee! Rot Twaddle! many should not be on bad terms Archduke; he cared little for his bleak triumphs and final divisions dispatched

He liked to wallow in humiliation. the to

Bunkum! Hurrah, we've got with Russia and Great Britain at anyone.

south.

the British acoundrels out the same time and that accord- a wishy-washy sentimentality

but seemed incapable of a deep begged him to stay..

Not a courtier, not a friend, this time!" This force can be regarded as

ingly British sea-power should sincere human emotion, even for nothing more than a symbol of

never be challenged. Bismarck his wife, who filled him only Japanese might for 50,000 THENEVER be opened his had also encouraged France to with a deadly ennui.

W troops would not get very far in

mouth about foreign affairs gratify her ambition for colonial the famous southward expan-ho managed to make mischief expansion in order to divert her sion. It is probably the in-in some part of the world. He energy from Europe.

* was boastful, vainglorioue, self- adequacy of the force that has

wanted mean the recall of William to toned down

But his THE Kaiser had two main was an affront and a danger to the end of a free republic might American and assertive, obstinate.

obacasions. One way to obstinacy was that of a weak build a navy to match the British Serbia to be taught a lesson.

In a crisis, or confronted Navy-Churchill infuriated him But he neither expected nor Germany, would never call back with a strong personality, he by calling it a luxury navy- desired war. The tidings that the Emperor who ran away. sheltered himself behind words and the other was concerned of boorish abuse.

with the Yellow Peril in the Far East, which he painted in There is no doubt something colours almost as lurid as those the view of Emil Ludwig, one used until very recently by his historians, that his un- Hitler about Soviet Russia.

Nearly all his personal diplo- matic excursions either fell flat or. ended disastrously, Je was born with a withered It was beyond question his left arm. Driven back upon neurotic personal intrusions Into; himself by the necessity of hid- the delicate machinery of Euro- ing his infirmity and deprived in Pean politics, coupled with his resolve to create an unconquer- particular of the sympathy and able fleet, which brought the good will of a' mother who French and British close to lavished her affections upon her gether and produced the fateful younger children, his intolerable military conversations between

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controlled arrogance developed from a thwarled "Childhood.

' '; the two Governments.

already rewarded them in then tnelt admission by the de- mocracies that their coup is a fail accompli and nothing will be done about it provided that it is not carried further. The scare raised over Thailand serves the Japanese purpose too: it is a scare that may develop into a fire alarm for all of the South Pacific, but while it is kept smouldering it occupies the

An irresistible Impulse was attention of the democracies in

the south (Indo-China)-in fact, given to the war machine and trying to stifle it and thus from the latter they may expect war followed as night follows), relegates to a secondary position new offensives against the day. The Kaiser had chiefly Burma Road. The Japanese bimself to blame for the fact the subjugation of Indo-China,

have established a large area be that world opinion fastened the In the meantime the Japanese tween their permanent bases in guilt on himself and that he can go ahead making an effec- China and the Chinese strong- became the symbol of all the holds. By continuous thrusts crueltics and injustices and tive force of their symbolic

by small well-armed veterans blundering stupidities which cul- Bouthward expansion army, the invader keeps dispersing the minated in the greatest crime building a naval base from the defending forces and retains the humanity ever committed fine facilities in Camranh Bay initiative despite the disparity against itself. and accustoming the ambitious in numbers between the forces. eyes of their aviators to the new Until the Chinese get some star that has swum into their heavy ontinuery and plan at bay stomach for a stand-up fight. ken,

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Years afterwards Germany. passed once more into servitude under another kaiser. But the new kaiser is a man of the 'people.

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