Show I KAISERS ACTION I is Said to be in Line With His Whole Eastern Policy Berlin Feb Whatever may bethought be-thought and said outside of Germany as to the kaisers line of action on the GreeceCretan Imbroglio the dominant If not the unanimous opinion in Germany Is that i has been consistent with his vhole eastern policy and inspired by a desire to maintain peace The home papers I pa-pers which insinuate and the foreign pas i < pa-s which openly affirm that famtly af tolrs have been any element In Influencing Influenc-ing the kaiser choose to ignore facts which ought by this time to be open to the world There Is no feud or illwill now existing between the kaiser and his sister the Duchess of Sparta wife of the Greek heir apparent The unconcealed dfavor with which he treated her conversion con-version from the Lutheran to the Greek church Is a matter of past history The Cress mother was the medium of c early reconciliation and the harmony of affection between the kaiser and his favorite sister has long since been restored That the kaiser sought first of alL the support of Russia for his proposal pro-posal to blockade thePiraeus should dispose dis-pose of the report that family considerations considera-tions weighed largely with the czar The kaIser can be expected to know how far the fact that King George as brother of the dowager czarina would affect Russian I Rus-sian policy This history of our own time affords an illustration When Prussia in iso despoiled the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt brother of the then czarina the Czar Alexander I declined to Interfere Inter-fere privately or through diplomacy and when Prussia annexed HolsteinGottorp long associated with the Russian dynasty nothing was said from St Petersburg That the dowager czarina has personally Interferred on behalf of King George Is beyond all probability The telegram of encouragement and sympathy from her to fhe king whlcil has gone the rounds of the European press was a fabrication and events since have proved that czar and kaiser alike are guided by motives In which family relations rela-tions play no Important part The actual truth so far as the kaiser has taken any lead upon the Cretan difficulty is that his aim has been to prevent or at all hazards to propose the breakup break-up of Turkey and to stop Greece Irom entering upon a war which unless accompanied by a general conflagration In the Balkan peninsula might involve the devastation of Greece and the over throw of King George I |