GERMAN DIPLOMAT DEAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 504, 11 May 1909, Page 5

GERMAN DIPLOMAT DEAD.

HERB VON HOLSTEIN. (BY TKLEOnAPIi —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPTEIGHT.) (Eoc. May 10, 10.25 p.m.) Berlin, May 10. ■ Hon* Friedrich von Hols-tein, who was confidential adviser to four Gorman Chancellors, is dead. A NOTABLE FIGURE. . AN ECHO OP; THE CAMARILLA. •Here-Von Holstein was retired after, the German policy in Morocco had failed. That failure was the ostensible cause of his fall, but it has boon said that the, real cause was that, having.been for years in leagno with_the Camarilla headed by Prince Philip von Eulenburg, he in some way incurred the Prince's enmity, and the, powerful infiuenco of • the. Camarilla with the Kaiser resulted in: tho : ousting of Herr von Hoisteii'from the important position tvhioh he' had held so long in tho diploni&tio service of , Germany. It is further said •- that the fallen diplomat, retaliating, destroyed the Camarilla, for lie is believed, to he who, with his great inner knowledge, primed up tho journalist' Maximilian Harden, whose articles in "Zukunft" caused the great Berlin scandals of 1907, the end of which is not vet. Count Kund yon- Moltke won the verdict against Herr Harden in the higher Court,, but the caso' of Prince Philip yon Eulenberg still remains sub judice, the trial being postponed through his illness. And now Herr von Holstein is dead. . . ;; A Power In Foreign Affairs. , About foiir years ago Herr yon. Holstein was one of the; leading officials at the Foreign Office. Ho was next in rank to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, tind . took the latter's place;when absent. "Herr von Holstein (says a writer in tho "Glasgow Herald") was one of the greatest living authorities on diplomatic affairs. , His knowledge.of them was encyclopaedic, But-, he rarely was 'seen in public; the great mass ofvhis fellow-country-meA, were.ignorant of hisivery existence. He Avas a reserved, .taciturn man, who had little'to say even to his colleagues at the Wilhelm Strasse. Ho had tho .reputation, of being ono of the best dispatch-writers in Europe, l and' cbrtainly such 1 documents, as have: come from his hand were models of their kind. He was a friend of the Enlenburgs, and it is supposed to have been on their instigation that he persuaded the Kaiser to plunge into'the Morocco trouble. It took Ml Prince Bulow's skill and diplomacy to arrange something like a dignified retreat for''Germany from an untenable . position. But, all tho sanie,:'German diplomacy lost some of its tail-feathers in the Algeciras Conference, and Prince.Bulow' knew that they -had undono twenty .'years' efforts to bring about a rapprochement with France. This made the position of Herr von Holstein untenable, and no was politely but firmly put on the shelf. Holsteln's Revenge, ' "Herr von Holstein, however; was furious, and regarded himself as the scapegoat of the Government. He considered that',his friends had betrayed him.- It was at this moment that he formed his alliance with Herr Maximilian' Harden and revealed to hiin\the existence of the occult government behind the official one, tho 'round tablp' at which an irresponsible clique of courtiers settled the affairs of State." And thus was engineered thd fate Of the Cama-I llUa. . ■: . ' I • ■■ -