A “BELLICOSE ENGLISHMAN.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 March 1926, Page 5

A “BELLICOSE ENGLISHMAN.”

THE KING IN WAR TIME. AMERICAN STATESMAN’S EXPERIENCE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 4. It is now revealed that the intimate papers of Colonel House, personal representative of President AVilson to the European Governments during the Great AVar, omit a letter to President Wilson describing an . interview which Colonel House had with the King on April 30, 1915. . „ , Colonel House said he talked with the King for nearly an hour. “He is the most bellicose Englishman I have met so far,” said the Colonel. “I had hopes that he might talk concerning peace plans, but evidently he wanted to impress upon me that it was _ no time to talk about peace. His idea seemed to be that the best way to obtain permanent peace was to knock all the fight out of the Germans. He spoke kindly of the Germans as a whole, hut as for his dear cousin, the Kaiser, and his entourage, he denounced them in good, sailorlike terms. He is the most pugnacious monarch • loose in these parts.” . - The publishers say that they omitted the letter because it adds nothing in the shaiie of historical knowledge. It was only an expression of the King’s intense patriotism. Another phase in Colonel House’s reference to his visit to the King is: “I showed him with some diffidence a cartoon of AVilhelm hanging at the_ yardarm, the King thoroughly enjoying it. The more I see of the King th© better I like him. He is a good fellow, and deserves a better fate than being a king.”