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RATHER
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vorld dominion obsess-
of Emperor William
orld into war. Upon
emendous military eng-
ion of which he was
it, the exponent, and
s the responsibility of
anning and bringing
test conflict the world
"divine right" speech delivered at
Brandenburg in 1890, in which he said
he regarded the German people as "a
responsibility" conferred upon him
by God and that it was "my duty to
increase this heritage for which one
day I shall be called upon to give ac-
count. Those who try to interfere
with my task I shall crush.'
The German war party grew with
William as its head, and the scheme
of world dominion awaited the hour
to begin its attainment. It came with
the assassination of the Austrian
archduke, Francis Ferdinand, and his
wife at Sarajevo.
Recalled from a yachting trip, Wil-
liam presided at a conference at Pots-
dam of representatives of the German
and Austrian armies, navies and
commercial interests. There, accord-
ing to the best information obtain-
able, the decision was reached to
make the assassination of the arch-
duke a pretense for the world war for
which Germany had long prepared. 1
Poses as Martyr
In the diplomatic exchanges be-
tween Germany and Austria on one
side and Great Britain, France and
Russia on the other side William pos-
ed as one wishing for peace but driv-
en to war. He signed the order for
the mobilization of the German army
Prince Henry of Prussia, on July
1914, that England would remain n
tral in a war involving the Cent
Powers with France and Russia.
To Blame. For War
ot matter to the world that
or's personal share in the
its immediately preceding
had been obscured. The
victed him of organizing, di-
nd maintaining at the top
fficiency, the great German
achine. It remembered that
the order for the German
n. It remembered that he
isor for the terrorism and
a which, under the guise of
avished Belgium, laid waste
of France, depopulated and
Serbia and sent the Lusi-
her freight of women and
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ral
Perhaps the most direct ?nd au-
thoritive of the accusations against
the German emperor and the Pan-
Germans are contained in the pub-
lished secret memorandum of Prince
Charles Max Lichnowsky, who was
German ambassador at London at the
outbreak of hostilities. The prince
unequivocally placed the blame for
the war on Germany, and for his
frankness was imprisoned in a Siles-
ian chateau, permanently expelled
from the Prussian house of lords,
which action was sanctioned by the
emperor, and, finally, was exiled to
Switzerland.
The emperor, despite his previous
expressions of good will for America
gave vent to his anger against the
United States when it became evident
no official action would be taken to
stop the shipment of munitions and
supplies to the Entent Allies by de-
claring to the American ambassador,
James W. Gerard, "I shall stand no
nonsense from America after the
war."
Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert
was born January 27, 1859, and be-
came Emperor William II at the death
of his father, Frederick III, June 15,
1888. He came out of the Univer-
sity of Bonn fully prepared to enter
the school of statecraft: Set to work
in the government bureaus, he was
early taught the routine of official
business under the tutelage of the
great Bismarck.
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Thereafter he drove on his
to a grave in the Atlantic.
doubt whether William was
sane. He :said repeatedly
possessed a divinermandate
that the Almighty was his
ional and avowed ally." It
ntirely clear whether such
s were the product of a dis-
brain or were due to un-
egotism and an effort to im-
subjects with the idea of
and unquestioning submis-
s speeches to his armies in
asserted he and they were
ants of divine judgment upon
s enemies" were regarded
outside of Germany as
I rhetoric, intended only to
.is own people.
"Me und Gott"
a's claim to close affinity
I was the burden of dozens
eeches long before, as well
the beginning of the war. Of
haps, none more clearly de-
claim than his notorious,
armies relentlessly in the mad cam-
paigns for victory, encouraging them
with every device and sometimes ap-
pearing on the front to be proclaim-
ed as personal commander in a great
offensive:
Publication of the "Willy-Nicky"
correspondence in 1917, placed the
German emperor in the light of an
unscrupulous plotter. The telegrams
disclosed that Emperor William had
induced Emperor Nicholas of Russia
to sign a secret agreement to which
he was to force the adherence of
France in the perfection of an offen-
sive and defensive alliance against
England. The treaty was discovered
and repudiated by a Russian minister.
Failing in his attempt, the German
emperor set upon himself the task of
drawing England to his side against
France and Russia. How well he
thought he had succeeded in this may
be gathered from a letter he wrote
to President Wilson in 1914 in which
he said King George had promised
FEATURING
Becomes Actual Leader
At the death of his father, the im-
perial throne devolved upon William
II who was then but 29 years of age.
Bismarckcontinued as chancellor but
not for long. Though the great states-
man had made every effort to instil
his young pupil with his own ideas of
government and diplomatic policies,
the new emperor soon found that he
disagreed with his grandfather's
former close adviser in many impor-
tant respects. In 1890 the disagree-
ment of the two men reached a crisis,
a rupture came, and Bismarck went.
The relations between the two men
remained strained for several years,
but before Bismarck died peace was
made between them.
George Fawcett-Dorothy Gish-George Slegman
This is no picture of fancy-but a tact.
The records of the United States Secret Service are filled with
just such black and damnable schemans as engineered by "The
Hun Within"
See for yourself the way the Hun-snakes work, see their cun-
ning, and then rejoice in that swiftet, alerter brain of Uncle Sam
which checkmates them by night and by day A great picture.
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