Show 1 i Indiscreet Interview With Kaiser published Editors Editor's Note The kaiser gave an indiscreet Interview to toan toan an Amerl Ameri newspaper man in 1908 The German foreign office oUke according to the story penciled blue much of the dynamite The expurgated version was announced for publication in inthe the December 1908 Century Magazine Before BeCore It appear appeared d however the foreIgn d suppressIon and sent a cruiser to NewYork to pIck Ul UI the pages and consign them to Davy Jones Jones' loc er When the crates containing the sheets fall failed d to sink they out and the copies fed to the flames The last Interview ls noV for time t By HOMER McCOY 1 BOSTON April 20 What CAP the kaiser saId to Willlam William Bayard Hale journalist that nIght back in an 1905 international mystery for a quarter or of a was century revealed today The famous lost Interview which caused so and so much speculation is presented in inthe inthe the May issue of the Atlantic Monthly Month Month- ly magazine by William Harlan Hale son on of the man to whom Emperor Era Era- Wi William Iam II ot of Germany sPoke so freely and as his country thought so Indiscreetly This is the gist of the views expressed ex- ex pressed by the Kaiser The inevitable world crisiS was a clash between Japan and and- occidental tul tal nations east eist and west mUst meet arid and the west must conquer Gr Great at Bri Britain In was guilty of a sort sorto o of political miscegenation in allying herself with Japan War was necessary War was Christian The Bible Dible was full of fighting The greatest soldiers were Christians Christian I Theodore Roosevelt of the United Sta States s. s was his hero the dominating militaristic leader he hoped he himself himsel was The course of history was large Jy Iy determined not b by the clashing of socIal forces and economic trends but by the deeds of great men and personalities Thus 11 U the Kaiser spoke It was one evening in July 1908 OB that he hec c con n. n to the interview by Hale close friend of Theodore Roosevelt RoosevelL The meeting was on the imperial yacht at anchor in the Fjord of Bergen In the Atlantic Monthly Hale writes that the emperor voiced the most amazingly indiscreet stat state state- men meats ev ever r uttered by the head ot of a great nation The world sItuation was oWl Otis at that time The rate first I p w I ers were in a tine fine s te of balance 1 like a a mIxture of chemicals ready to explode with the addition of some ca catalytic a substance rash speech for example I The Japanese So war var was three years past Germany had come to toa toa a cross cross' crossroads roads and was a little of off the path She was carrying on a naval race with Great BritaIn a military mill mill- tary race with France |