GERMAN CROWN PRINCE'S INDISCRETIONS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2254, 14 September 1914, Page 3

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE'S INDISCRETIONS

ANOTHER "EXCELLENT" PAMPH- • LET. . . . The German Crown Prince in July last again stirred up party feeling in Germany by describing as "excellent" jet another political pamphlet. One ; of the professors of history at tho •Royal Academy at Posen made a speech before-a number of admirers of Bismai;ck on the great Chancellor's birthday, and had it printed later in the form of a pamphlet entitled "Bismarck and We.V In this pamphlet the Professor' describes Bismarck as the embodiment of the German national idea,/ and declares that tho reason why the democratic tendency of the age is mak■ing- headway, even in Germany, is that the Bismarckian spirit'; has departed fiom the 'German • Government. '• If something drastic is not done at once, the -Professor asserts; Germany will drift into the Parliamentary system -which Bismarck so successfully combated. The Professor asks , his readers to judge-of what .might happen if Bismarckian . principleis were adhered to from the fact "that England's attitude towards Germany has becomo quite different since the gradual increase of the German fleet has compelled even her respect, If, only the right leaders were forthcoming, says the Professor, the German people are ready to follow. "Wo are,"- he states, "ready to make every effort and capable of making every sacrifice the political situation demands of us. Our strength rests on our unbounded capabilities; we have. much more breath than . our adversaries .have." ......

Tho Radical newspapers point ont that and .Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg when tho heir to the Imperial Throne declares to be- excellent a .pamphlet in which the Emperor's chief Minister is reproached witli weakness. The same journals recall the fact that on a. former occasion tho Crown Prince, sitting ia. the Court box in the. Reichstag, vigorously applauded 'a speech .delivered by Herr von Heydebrarid, the Conservative leader, in which Dr. von Bethmann Hofliveg was rebuked for assuming such a weak attitude towards England, and that his Imperial Highness gave'strong expression to his dissatisfaction with the position taken up by tho Chancellor in the Guelph question.