EX-CROWN PRINCE’S WISH.
RETURN TO GERMANY. SENTIMENT AND PROPAGANDA. The ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm has come to the conclusion that three years’ exile has been quite sufficient sentence for him — at least, so he writes from Wieringen to a professor friend in Bonn. Wilhelm, as his own advocate, becomes sentimental, and says in this letter, published in a Conservative Berlin journal a few weeks ago: “In those long years of loneliness I have learned patience and to judge happenings to men and things more objectively. Three years of self-chosen banishment are, however, God knows, quite enough, and my longing for wife and children, which every reasonable person will understand, is almost too great for me to bear. “However, I live in hope that the hour of freedom will sound, and that a place will be found fbr me, too, in the German Fatherland. That I can foresee with thankfulness from the human understanding and sympathy with me in my fate, which come to me from wide circles of all classes in Germany.” This sentimental outburst is prefaced by a long piece of political propaganda. The question of a monarchy or republic, he declares, plays no role in practical German politics, as the Weimar 1 constitution is an established fact, but he goes on: “I have always stood by the belief that a monarch should be there for the good of the people, and that the people do not exist for a monarch.” Wilhelm clings to the belief, too, that the monarchical system can bestow many benefits on the people, but he adds to that the expression that it would be criminal to indulge in any violence with a view to upsetting established order, to sharpen differences between classes, or to preach class war. He now recognises what he and his father did not before the war—that “the workers are part of the whole people, and that no State form can exist without the trust of the working classes.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1922, Page 2
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327EX-CROWN PRINCE’S WISH. Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1922, Page 2
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