“A FRIEND OF GERMANY”
QUEEN VICTORIA'S LETTERS PUBLISHED IN BERLIN NEWSPAPER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, September 20. (Received September 21, at 10.5 a.m.) Under the head line “ Queen Victoria, a Friend of Germany,” the ‘ Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,’ with King Edward’s permission, is publishing 23 of Queen Victoria’s letters to members of the Hohenzollern family, which were recently discovered in the archives of the House of Brandenburg, almost all written in German. In one, dated 1870, Queen Victoria says: “ A powerful Germany can never be dangerous to England. Quite the contrary. Our principal aim, therefore, is to try to ensure that she adopts a friendly and trustful attitude towards us.” The ‘Zeitung’ comments:— “To the loss of world peace Edward the Seventh did not adopt these ideas,”
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Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 9
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126“A FRIEND OF GERMANY” Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 9
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