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Show EX-KAISER'S TALK AROUSES IRE 111 GERMANY Wilhelm's Interview Given at Ameronfen Called Insult to People y CARL D. CROAT United Press Staff Correspondent. BERLIN, Fb. 1J. Th Interview with the kaiser caused th greatest sensation through Germany today. The widest varianco In opinions was expressed. Former advisers of the kaiser defended his attitude as the "peace lord." while others treated hi statements with ridicule or anger. Count yon Keventlow, in an Interview Inter-view with the United Prea. expressed regret that Wllhelm had become the object of worldwide discussion. Pie declared that his former,emperor waa right In saying; he "never wished the war." "During the dsys before the outbreak out-break of hostilities he struggled against war." declared the count, who was the leading military critic In Germany. THIa ia alsasl. by rsmsrka he wrote on the margina of the government's gov-ernment's proclamation. He went to wsr discouraged and In fear of the role Kn-rland might play." INSULT TO PEOPLE. Friedrich Htamfer, editor of the Vorwaerts, declared that "It is In accordance with the well known tactlessness tact-lessness of the former kaiser thst he, Hull .Km!) n BnMtrin Ilk - fnr eigner, should Insult the German people. 'The Social Tefnocratlc party voted on August 4. 11 4, for the war credits asked by the government and maintained main-tained this attitude during the war." fitamfer said. "The party hat been uniuatly accused abroad of following Wllhelm rarelessly. The fact In that It participated In the defense of Its country not to aid In any annexation plans, but to save the German people just such a peace as""provided In the treaty of Versailles, which It foresaw would result from a German defeat. "Therefore no one in Germany or abroad will believe the kaiser's declaration rhat the socialists betrayed be-trayed their own country " SARCASTIC REPLY. "The kaiser Is still obsessed with the Idea that he exists through the grace of God, but the German people are thankful that they are no longer 'bkfaeed' with him." Erich Dombrow sky. German author, wrote in the Tageblatt. "It Is characteristic of the spiritual and mental disposition of the kaiser that he seeks to blame the war and the collapse of Germany on others. He forgets that the foreign policies of his regime, his rattling of the sword and his vain provocative speeches stirred up the other powers, tie forgets for-gets that In July. 114. he gave himself completely to Austrian diplomacy. diplo-macy. WEEK AND FEARFUL. "Perhaps the kaiser did not want war his nature was far too weak and fearful for It but It waa his Inconsiderate Incon-siderate actions thst brought It about. "He always scorned the socialists aa a foreign body. He never tried to draw the working classes Into cooperation co-operation with the state through a conciliatory policy. Both Inside and outside the German borders he always al-ways encountered the great mistrust.' lomb.owsky Is the author of "German "Ger-man Leadera of Yesterday. |