LATE KING EDWARD.
-•• I ■ " STRONG ANTI-GERWIAN VIEWS HOW GERMAN DIPLOMACY WAS PARALYSED. ; : if' - * GERMAN WRITER'S OPINIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Behlin, October 20. A book entitle? '""Monarchs and Men" has been published by Herr Maximilian Harden, a well-known German writer. '. The book is a sketch of King Edward VII., in which the late monarch is described . as a Machiavelli in his anti-German policy. , He assisted France •at the Algeciras con ference (regarding Moroccan affairs) in 1906, and the Anglo-Japanese and French treaties were his work. < King Edward, Herr Harden says, created an anti-German trust, and it was his pleasure to paralyse German diplomacy. England had no better commercial traveller. He was a new type of monarch. Until 1902 no King visited spies, or "heated Hell" for his rivals,' or brought home from every journey a solid business achievement. ; , ,: The book reflects a not- uncommon opinion* in Germany.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15130, 22 October 1912, Page 7
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