The Wanganui Chronicle. SATURDAY, MAY 16. 1931. PRINCE BULOW AND LORD LONSDALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 114, 16 May 1931, Page 6

The Wanganui Chronicle. SATURDAY, MAY 16. 1931. PRINCE BULOW AND LORD LONSDALE

poKD LONSDALE'S threat to issue a writ lor libel against the publishers of Prince von Billow’s Memoirs unless a portion thereof is expurgated calls fur an assessment ot the two men and more, particularly of the two monarchs concerned. Bulow's memoirs are said to have a reference in them to the effect that Lord Lonsdale was responsible for fomenting a quarrel between King Edward the Seventh and Kaiser Wilhelm. This. Lord Lonsdale denies, and judging by the characters of the parties concerned Lord Lonsdale’s denial is the easier to believe. Let. us look at the eliaraeter of this little play: First, King Edward was a man of his own mind. lie. mixed with ail sorts and conditions of men and he knew and appreciated the different that go to make up the world. Direct minds appealed Io him. This accounts for his liking of such men as Will Crooks, the Labour M.P., who was brought up in a workhouse and won his way to Westminster. It also accounts for his liking for the sportsman, of which Lord Lonsdale is the outstanding example. True, the Edwardians were prone to render unto Caesar the things that are God’s and unto God the things that are Caesar's, but in their own phrase they “rode straight at their fences.” They were healthy, and enjoyed life ami the thrills and the pleasures of life. Pass to the Court of Germany’s Emperor of that time and what do you find? You cannot separate three names which weave the web around the Kaiser. These three, names are Holstein, Eulenburg and Bulow. .Holstein was long recognised as one of the most sinister figures in Europe. To-day even it is hard to realise that in him we bad a person of flesh ami blood, he more tits to a phantastie eliaraeter created by a Dumas. But it was Holstein who raised men up and smashed them at his will. It was Holstein who undid the work of Bismarck. His was the power. But how did he come by that power? He was a human spider. He noted down in his dossiers every evil thing men did. He stored away those deadly personal facts and, when the time came, he used his knowledge of men’s misdoings to carry out his own purpose. He would not tolerate strong men for his superiors ami so he would seek only the smaller fry for the office of Germany’s foreign Minister. He never intended Bulow to become Chancellor. But a trick of fate, again outfictioning fiction occurred which compelled this misanthrope to elevate the man he feared. Prince Eulenberg, the Kaiser’s intimate friend, who with dulcet tones played on the heart strings of the vain Emperor so successfully because he wanted nothing for himself, had advocated Bulow’s promotion to the Chancellorship. But this manoeuvre would not have been successful had not. the trick of fate intervened. This was the trick. The comic paper. Kladderadatseh, was lampooning Holstein, Eulenburg and Kiderlen, a foreign Office official, who worked with Holstein and was on terms of jovial friendship with the Kaiser. Kladderadatseh depicted the three wittily and with uncanny knowledge as .Friendly Oyster, Count. Troubadour- ami Cock-Sparrow respectively. Who was behind this? They failed to discover. Challenges to duals followed in plenty. Meanwhile, from 1894 lor two years onward, anonymous letters were being received by highly placed personages, the most exalted were accused of the most disgraceful conduct, illicit love-affairs, fraud and calumny. The Empress Frederick at this time said: “One half ol the Court, is writing letters against the other half.” Baron Marschall, in his cups, turned up at Holstein’s room one evening, and alter dismissing the Cretian incident and the Kaiser’s conduct, followed up his talk with asking for a decoration for a Privy ('ouneillor, who had been falsely accused of the authorship of the Kladderadatseh articles. Holstein felt he had a clue, it was, he believed, Marschall himself, who was the culprit. Prince Hoheuiolie, the Chancellor, was championing Marschall, therelore Holstein struck at Hohenlohe. lie advanced Bulow, led Io it by a desire to enlist Eulenberg. When these two fell out it was Eulcnberg’s whispered word which brought about the dismissal of tin: spider. Holstein. Hut Holstein was to play his hand out to the last card. He gave his confidence, to Miximilli.in Harden, the brilliant editor of the Die Zukunfl. Then appeared the most astounding revelation of depravities that have occurred in modern times. Eulenburg was ostracised, Molke was dismissed from the post of Military Governor of Berlin and Count Posadowsky, whom Eulenburg had marked out for I lie Chancellorship, was dismissed from the Ministry of the Interior. Bulow alone, remained. ami because of it. the Kaiser made him a Prince ol the Empire and also his Chancellor. Thus went Bulow through tin: mire to his appointed place. Binis of a feather lloek together and the wold of this man, the bosuni companion of the degenerate Eulenburg, w ill no! stand against that of Lord Lonsdale, bon vive ami sportsman, beloved ami respected by all classes of the coiiglomreate sporting world of England.