INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE RUPPRECHT

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 50, 28 February 1921, Page 3

INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE RUPPRECHT

Former Crown Prince Ruppreeht of Bavaria, who some German politicians believe will become" King of Bavaria, and possibly the next Emperor of Germany—for he is the most popular of all the German pretenders—on Ist January gave the first interview he hae granted an American newspaper since the revolution.

The Prince is staying in the little town of Berohtesgadentin, in the Bavarian Alps, where he retired after the war rather than leave his native country..

The Prince, a tall, slim figure, with white hair, and a, little moustache, clear ,blue eyes and sunburnt face, talks in an ■unceremonious wa-y, speaking fluent English.

"Though wo still are officially enemies," said the Prince, "I think we may have.a friendly talk. As a matter of fact, I hardly fought against American troops. I remember, that years before the war I told an American -woman who complained, that the German officers did not speak English, 'We probably never will'fight England, surely not America.'

"Unfortunately I was wrong. I personally opposed the war, and did not want it. I ara certain that war with Russia would have come, none the less, but if. Russia had declared war Franco would' not have been forced to join. I rather believe in that case England would have succeeded in holding her back.

"1 see that I astonish you by speaking so frankly. But I "think it is of no use to delude one's self. We must learn from our faults. They cost us too much not to be given the_ fullest consideration. That is my opinion regarding the beginning of the war. The British mind was subject to sentimental feeling,-and the American mind even more so. Therefore, the torpedoing of the Lusitania was more than a crime. It was a fault."