TO MUCH KAISER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12175, 26 November 1917, Page 4

TO MUCH KAISER.

GERMAN COMMENT,

A Zurich message states:—The " Muenchner Post" protests against half the German answer to the Pope's Note being devoted to the attitude of the. Kaiser, and says that the Kaiser only the president of the German confederation, and that when the Note says that behind the Kaiser in a desire for peace stands tho German people, it is reversing the situation. The* people stand before the Kaiser. The article continues : —Further, it is not a matter of indifference that the person of the Kaiser should be pushed in tho foreground. We all know very well his declarations on the peace question, but we also know that during the twenty-eight years of his reign he made utterances extremely disconcerting to foreign nations, and thanks to a little cleverness shown in this part of the Note, it. is tolerably certain that foreign Governments will dwell upon these utterances. The "Post" deplores the fact that a number of men of high social position have begun an agitation against peace and that instead of being energetically disavowed by the highest quarters, they have been thanked for their attitude, but it adds:—We can be calm. Despite all the war-lusting dukes, grand admirals, burgomasters, privy councillors, ferocious professors and other colleagues of Count Eeventlow. the coming peace cannot be much longer delayed.