MORE DANGEROUS, THAN KAISER.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 November 1918, Page 7

MORE DANGEROUS, THAN KAISER.

A rather unfamiliar portrait of the German Crown Prince is given in the “Forum” by Captain Edward Lyell Fox, an American who lived in Berlin for many years before the war. Before his father unloosed the plague of war on the world the- Crown Prince was spoken of at home as an unbeschriebencs Blatt, meaning the unwritten page. We have generally regarded him as a fatuous philanderer. Captain Fox’s verdict is very different. “The Crown Prince,” ho writes, “is clever—amazingly so. His face does not show it. He had been caricatured to represent a rabbit. There is no denying that his features look weak. He has often been photographed grinning in a silly way; but the grin can be sinister, too. For Friedrich Wilhelm is one of the most dangerous and sinister men in the world. . . . Because of his skill as an actor, because of his ruthless ideas on Divine right, because of his recklessness, of his lack of religious fear —which fear his father has—ithe Crown -Prince jis a much more dangerous man than the Kaiser. ’ ’