| Show LIKED THE PEASANTRY The Dead Monarch Had Xo Sympathy With High Cnltnre London Nov 1 According to a dis I v patch from Berlin Emperor William has received a dispatch from General Von Werder German ambassador to Russia now at LIvadia saying the czar refused to go to Corfu as he desired to die In Russia A notable obituary sketch will appear in the Times tomorrow The author o the sketch of the dead emperor was on Intimate terms of friendship With the czar and he says the czar never had the slightest sympathy with high culture cul-ture adding Indeed the czar rather glorified in the Idea of toelnfe of the same rough texture of the majority of his subjects and i he knew he was some times disrespectfully dis-respectfully the Peasant Czar he regarded re-garded this epithet a compliment His straightforward abrupt manner savoring sav-oring sometimes of gruffness and his direct unadorned method of expression expres-sion harmonized well with his roughhewn rough-hewn Immobile features and somewhat sluggish movements The Impression he generally made in conversation was that of a good honest moderately intelligent in-telligent strongwilled man who might perhaps listen to explanations but who certainly would stand no nonsense from his subordinates nor any one else Only those who have had the privilege prv liege of observing him in the unrestrained unre-strained intimacy of his family especially espe-cially when romping with his children or amusing himself with his fourfooted pets could fully realize what a simple kindly nature was concealed behind a by no means sympathetic exterior The writer then alludes to the czars strong antiGerman feeling from the time he was czarewitch and tme czarewlch says But he always had pacific Intentions He feared that Russia might toe made the victim of a coup detat of the young kaiser and therefore thought It advisable advis-able to make persistent advances to France But his attitude was strangely exagerated If not entirely misunderstood by France The czar was too auto craJtlc t enjoy hearing the Marseillaise I Marseil-laise In his own capital and too prudent pru-dent to ally himself closely with an importuous nation under a weak government gov-ernment which was quite ready to make use of an entente for diplomatic purposes pur-poses he had no Intention of letting himself be dragged into war I |
