“The PRINCE OF PEACE."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 66, 23 July 1913, Page 4

“The PRINCE OF PEACE."

“Perhaps the Kaiser’s most notable achievement for peace," writes Mr Henry Stead in the “.Review of .Reviews," “was the absolute veto he put on any combined action against England during the Boer War, when every European nation was itching to take advantage of our entanglement '‘in \. . . South Africa. It is well to recall that in those days France menaced ns most. She was irritable with England over the Fashoda affair, and took, up the side of the Boers whole-hearted-ly. There was no mention of the entente cordiale then ; the only question discussed was whether France would go to war with us or not. The Kaiser was largely responsible for keeping the peace. I remember a leading diplomatist speculating as to what Germany was to get as a reward lor keeping the war dogs of Europe from our throats. Samoa, he said, of course, and concessions in East Africa, but that cannot surely be all! Whetner the Kaiser acted from interested motives or not does not really matter. The fact remains that lie saved us from a European ultimatum, and a posible war.”