THE GERMAN EMPEROR ON ENGLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 4

THE GERMAN EMPEROR ON ENGLAND.

A recent conversation between tho German Emperor and Mr. Edward Dicey at his Majesty's Embassy in London is referred to by the latter in tho Empire Review for January. Aftor explaining „hat ho must be distinctly understood as giving his own impres-' sions in his own words, Mr. Dicey says that some of his articles were tpoken of by the Emperor aa having had a considerable share in "removing the enoneous conceptions that of late years had unfortunately prevailed as to the respective attitudes of our two countries." His Majesty added "that he felt very keenly the imputation that he, a? the eldest grandson of Queen Victoria, to whom he was most de.eply attached, should have been regarded in this country as hostile in any iray to Great Britain and British interests. The, hearty reception, therefore, accorded to Win in the capital of England had beeii indeed most welcome. His Majesty then talked of the great pleasure with which he should recall his sojourn in England. ( From high and low, from rich and poor, "from one and all, he had received nothing bub kindness and courtesy. Until the present visit he had only known Court life in England ; but during his rest at Highcliffe he had not only improved his health but had learnt to know the English country and the English people better than he had ever done before. He had never realised previously the beauty of our English land, the wealth of our country gentlemen, tho splendour of their mansions, tho dignity of their private life, the comfort of the cottages, and the independence of the peasants^ then- ficedom of speech, and thorough kindliness. All this had impressed him most favourably, and taught him that there was an England hitherto very imperfectly known to him. Ho thought England could best bo dcsciibed as ' tlic happy country.'' Continuing to talk of England, his Majesty remarked that his fellow-countrymen wore as a body too poor and too intent upon gaining a living to enjoy sports and pastimes ; but he thought that, with the increasing industrial prosperity of German} , his people might in the f utiuo enjoy a littli; more sport, healthful alike to body and mind, but of which the English people taken as a whole had perhaps a little too much. As far as trade is concerned I had not much conversation with his Majesty, although I vividly recall tho statement that he was all for the open door, but that under present indiistiial conditions he could not introduce that principle into the relations of Geinuny with foreign Powers." „