“LITTLE WILLIE”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 7

“LITTLE WILLIE”

IN AN UNFAMILIAR LIGHT SAYS HE WAS OPPOSED TO LONG WAR GERMANY COULD NOT WIN By Telegraph.—Press Asen. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August 16, 7.20 p.m.) BERLIN, August 15. The “Jung Deutsche ’’ an organ of the Young German Patriotic, Sooiety, publishes a letter which it is stated that the Crown Prince wrote in 1919 to a well-known manufacturer, in which he denies the responsibility for prolonging Che war, and adds: “If our statesmen had succeeded in avoiding war, Germany’s development would have been increasingly satisfactory. T’l.e Marne was our only serious reve - , owing to the stupidity and inertia of the higher command. It was clear in the autumn of 1914 that the war could not conclude successfully, therefore I often expressed the opinion tliat peace was desirable. In the latter years I vainly fought against the obsession that Germany was engaged in a life and death struggle.”