EX-KAISER'S SORROWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18170, 16 August 1922, Page 9

EX-KAISER'S SORROWS.

FAITH IN THE" MONARCHY. " BUT I SHALL NOT COME BACK." "Monarchy will come back in . Germany, but I shall not come back. 1 Want nothing except to hrde myself," so said the ex-Kaiser, whose sorrows are vividly described in the New York Times by " Baron Clemens von Kadowitz-Nei, -who visited him for several days at Doom .together with the ex-court chaplain, Ernst Dryander. He found the exiled monarch * under no illusions regarding his own future, although he believes The monarchy will be restored. He regards the Republic as a temporary. ;.'" affair, and has quite a good opinion of" President Ebert, whom he strongly; . praises for regarding himself as . a servant instead of a master of fcfie Republic, and for not attempting, ;to do more than his duties prescribe. He is convinced that Germaiiv." , destined to revive industrially, ec.ono.Bi.i : .-. i cally, and politically, to be as great in : the future as in the past. '•''•„"''' :> - The fallen. ruler showed signs of. Ylegp . depression when his interviewer to)[d him • / how unpretentiously the diplomatic repie* & sentatives of the Republic are now ~ abroad. " Our-embassies," he •- r : tically exclaimed, "should be showy'and,/ conspicuous," and he proceeded to argue' that ambassadors of even a republic.. .. i should give particular attention to..their, '.-^ style of living and to the dinners they ■.-.■/ provide. :" .•-":_" ! Among the sorrows of the imperial exile none appears to afflict hint-more keenly than the fact that the German trident has disappeared ingloriously- be- , : v neath the seas, and that-he never again ~; " will be able to set foot aboard a war-- » ship." He confesses to a disinclination-' for discussio.n of the naval aspect of 'the • .. great war, declaring, thati tie .submarine.:."'"-£ question has caused him -..'.' too' :muc]D •c. worry."' In his exile, William is obsessed Vith a dee^-seated'' anti-Semitism, this hatred .-- ■ of the JewS|' the interviewer hints* ■ leadling him in, ether-; .direction «of lonian Catholicism) *the mystic side v. of -Which has always' strongly appealed toii'himj and he hears constantly from the Roman Catholic bishops on'-•the Rhine about *e- i.~*_ ligious matters. : His : : conversation' invariably plays around - religious - "questions, much' to.-the- exasperation of thpsu in his -entourage..;' : -';;■-"■'"•■'..'' : " :i<.-:/ L;r The pjcttire. ;draw4: mter^ewpr- : /*-;• of the ,:iorhier monarch's- daily lif^.".'!&'--V' f suggestive;' he rfiads ten German? nawsf:"s",>* papers and two Dutch'papers iJailyj .and • > • i the French and English'; newspapers '-"'' whenever members of 'his household per- - mit them to reach him. .His chief occupation, aside from wood sawing, is talking, and 1 ' when he talks, everybodyi else, .is compelled to „l)istebi •;: ■ His favourite topic is 'Napoleon. times he talks without giving a. chance to interrupt for a ; whole ?: Soor,' ; ■'* and all this time the listening, entourage is obliged to'stand. " . .' .. '1; .;.>., k '* This," observes the interviewer,'" *' is r * * what more than anythingV else „makes .i service so burdiipsome to the few Frjend« ■? ,n and admirers who are still willing to attend on him." ■' ' .'• '■_ rs-» ( * l