WHAT MOKE CAN I DO? THE KAISER'S INTERVIEW.
PULL TEST. HE WOULD BE A FRIEND. By Telegraph.— Prean Aasooiition.— Conyxlfb't. (Received November 25, 9.30 a>m.) PERTH, This Day. The mail brings the full text of the interview with the Kaiser, published in the London Daily Telegraph on. 28th October, and which recently caused such a sensation. In the course of conversation, the Kaiser said : "You English are mad — mad as March hares ! What has come over you that you are so completely given over to a suspicion quite unworthy of a great nation? What more can I do than I have cjone? I declared, with all the emphasis at my command, in my speech at the Guildhall, that my heart is set upon peace, and that it is one of my dearest Wishes to live on tho best terms with England. Have I ever' been false to my word? Falsehood and prevarication are alien to my nature. My actions ought to speak for themselves, but you listen not to them, but to those who misinterpret and distort them. That is a personal insult which I feel and resent— to be for ever misjudged, to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinised with* jealous, mistrustful eyes, faxes my patience severely. I have said time after time that I am a friend of England, and your press — or at least a considerable section of it — bids the people of England to refuse my proffered hand, and insinuated that the other holds a dagger. How_ can I convince the nation against its will. I repeat that I am a friend to England, but you make things difficult for me. My task is not the easiest ; the prevailing sentiment among large sections of the middle and lower classes of my own people is not friendly to England. lam therefore, so- to speak, in a minority in my own land, but it is a minority of the best elements, just as in Englaad, it is with respect to Germany."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 125, 25 November 1908, Page 7
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WHAT MOKE CAN I DO? THE KAISER'S INTERVIEW.
Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 125, 25 November 1908, Page 7
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