EX-KAISER'S PROPHECIES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3136, 25 September 1922, Page 2

EX-KAISER'S PROPHECIES.

lu a long account of a three days visit to the ex-Kaiser at Doom, Baron von Radowitz, who has been visiting America, credits the ex-Kaiser with predicting a return of .Monarchy in Germany. "But I. shall never come back," he declared emphatically. The article is being published in the Chicago Tribune. Before publication a cable message wae despatched to Doom, and a reply cable message Avas received confirming Radowitz's claim of having visited the ex-Kaiser on May 20 to -May 23 with a of Germans, including Hans Vogel, Baron Landsberg and Baron Kettercr. In the course of this article. Baron von Radowitz recounts the following dialogue : Ex-Kaiser. —What does the younger German generation think of me, Radowitz?—Baron von Radowitz. —It knows nothing about you. Ex-Kaiser. —I want nothing except to bide myself. But tell me, has the new generation forgotten its monarchical ideas and the glory of the Hohenzollern ?—Baron von Radowitz. —There is a good deal of monarchist sentiment in Germany. Ex-Kaiser. —Tho monarchy will como back—not now, but after some years. I do not know how or when. But I shall not come back. Baron von 'Radowitz. —Who will restore tho monarchy? The question' was not answered. Concerning the German Republic, Baron von Radowitz notes the exKaiser as saying:—"It is only temporary, and is bound to disappear." The ex-Kaiser, however, has good words for President Ebert. "Tie is quite a capable man. He regards himself as a servant of the public, not its master. But Bathenau —that's different." Radowitz boro notes that this comment was made before Rathenau's murder. According to Baron, von Radowitz. the ex-Kaiser evinced great respect for Rathenau's ability, but considered him a great danger to Germany. In the first place, Rathenau was a Jew, and the exKaiser has come to a strong hostility against Jews. The ex-Kaiser attacked the Wiesbaden agreement as "not international, but merely an understanding between two groups of capitalists. two great trusts, between Rathenau, and the interests represented by Loucheur and Giraud." Wilhelni disliked l)r Rathenau's agreement with the Russians, signed at Rapallo. Ho was, however, more indignant with Baron von Mallzahn, head erf the Russian division at the German .Foreign Office, for agreeing to the treaty, because von Mallzahn was a professional diplomat, while Dr Bathenau was not a diplomat Discussion turned on Germany's diplomatic representation abroad, and the ex-Emperor became depressed when the baron told him that the personnel and housing were unpretentious. "Our embassies," said William, "must be showy and conspicuous. A mob looks at the front, at appearances. The style of living, the dinners given by the ambassador —these things are important. I hope that the young diplomats of Germany will grow up in a sound tradition. But when men like von Mallzahn set them such examples." Wilhelni said that he had great pity for the late exEmperor Charles, who was like a boy, weak and easily led. "I do not want to see Austria united with Germany," added Wilhelni. "Germany will have a difficult struggle to recover, and I do not want to see her tied." Radowitz. who was formerly a member of the German Imperial Diplomatic Service, but is naturalised in Austria, 'emphasises the Kaiser's silence about his sons, and adds: —"Whenever I asked him who would restore the monarchy if he did not, lie refused to answer. In my opinion he knows that there is a sentiment in monarchist circles in favor of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty. Apart from this, the Kaiser is convinced that Germany will lie as great in the future as she has been in the past. Not onlv economically and industrially, he said, politically also. Germany will some day be as great as she was before; and then wo shall prove to the world that we were not responsible, and I was not responsible for the outbreak of the war." On political questions the exKaiser was inclined to speak in very g<ueral terms. lie said nothing about Alsace-Lorraine and little about France and England, Tho ex-Kaiser would not discuss the war. though making one

or two regretful remarks about the glorious Germany navy, and expressing regret that he would never set foot on a warship again. The submarine .question he refused to discuss, saying it worried him too much during the war. He said Hindenburg was a very great general, but Ludendorff was the real genius of the pair. Then he added, "But sometimes his ideas did not agree with mine." The former diplomat's signed article, describing his talk with the ex-Kaiser, concludes by declaring that "loneliness and the reaction of petty interests alter a busy life arc slowly driving the prisoner of Doom mad.*"