EX-GERMAN KAISER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 380, 15 November 1932, Page 7

EX-GERMAN KAISER

BLAMES SONS FOR BULLYING HIM INTO GREAT WAR. life in exile. London, Saturday. "I never wanted war. I was bullied into it by my sons." Whita-haired, jerky in conversation, but amazingly well-read on current affairs, the ex-Kaiser, speaking to an English visitor to Doorn, for the first time placed the blame for Germany s wai* declaration on the Hohenzollems — not himself, but his sons. Wilbelm is closely guarded against any attempts a,t assassination that may arise from the bitter internal Gennan f action war in which the _return of the monarchy is a big question. Apart from his appearance, and the way in which his conversation jumps from subject to subject, the former Emperor is little changed. xxe spoke freely of England, the visitor told the Manchester Guardian, but neither enquired of nor mentioned the British Royal Family. He reads German, French, and English newspapers daily, and is remarkably conversant with foreign affairs. "You have nothing but conference after conference, but nothing happens," he declared. And then he turned to the war and blamed his sons for Germany's past, although the reference may have been a subtle piece of propaganda to aid the Crown Prince with the fiery following who would place him again on the throne of a German Empire. Wilhelm made a great point of the fact that he never signed the declaration of war. He declared, too, that he had every hope that the Hohenzollern dynasty would revive, but has no illusions concerning his own chances of again becoming Kaiser. He is happy with his papers, and the little hand of exiles who followed to pay homage to him in Doorn. Strange contrast, the hristling moustached Emperor who once talked arrogantly of himself and God and nearly ruled a world to the whitehaired old man who talks sadly of his son's warlike tendencies, and finds happiness in economics and philosophy.