THE WILLY-NICKY LETTERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 110, 3 February 1920, Page 7

THE WILLY-NICKY LETTERS

■ « ': MB..CHURCHILL'S COMMENTS. London, February 1. Mr. Winston Churchill, in an article . in the "Sunday Herald," describes tho' "Willv.-Nicky" letters as one of tho most i remarkable series that has ever seen the liuhb. Ho says;— ' .; There is enough evidence available to . show, that the ex-Kaiser is n bad man,excitable, unscrupulous, and double-deal- I intr in small as well as in great affairs. Tho Tsar was weak, but honourable, swayed by his woiucnkind, who were narrow and superstitious. Compare either with Lenin, using power with merciless ferocity, committing monthly more mufders and cold-blooded executions ; 'thhn Willy and Nicky _ in all their reinns, trampling on religion, deserting Clio Allies; betraying his country. and finally, in order.to prolong his tvrannv. abandoning to a largo extent his theories and doctrines for which he . inflicted all'this bloodshed and misery. \ : The, noiular view of . the ex-Kaitftr, that , , lw was a demon evolving a world-wide catnstronhe from his own internal enereives. is inaccurate. He Ins not the brains: he is ■-'but a fairly ordinary man ndssessins nnioh superficial cleverness,' whose head was turned by. life-long adulation. The Willy-Nicky correspondence sliows that one human being should not in himself unite a great degree of execu-. tive cower with the pomp of sovereignty.' Nn one can ho trusted lo stand it, or miffht to have it. Tho British Sovereign reigns, but does not. govern. AH tho solendour and tradition of the.realm belongs to tho Crown, but the difficult, doubtful, and disputable, business of governing is transacted by plain,; black-coat-. Ed men. who can be turned' out and ro-. niaced if unsatisfactory. This';-is an eminentiv oractical method of governing. Judged,by every test, it challenges comnarisori with any and every form of government devised—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.