THE MEMOIRS
OF GERMAN EMPRESS
(United Press Association —B.y Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) LONDON, October 23. Sir Frederick Ponsonby has edited the letters of the Empress l 4 rederick oi Germany, which he himself smuggled into England in response to her dying request in 1901. She said: “I don’t want a soul to know: certainly not Willie” (meaning the ex-Kaiser).
The letters reval Wilhelm as a man who imposed on, ignored and forsook his mother. She wrote to Queen Victoria of ‘‘ his treachery,. want of respect to his father and insolence to me.”
On another occasion, referring to a strike of miners, she wrote: “I am more than horrified at. William’s speech, in which he told the men that if they had anything to do with the Social Democrats he would have them all shot down. I think such words m the mouth of a Sovereign and so young and inexperienced a man most brutal and unbecoming.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1928, Page 5
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