Show Not Useless ji I A A GERMAN historian has just presented a as s new and and intimate e aC account of the career former Kaiser Wilhelm II 11 of Germany His is portrait is hardly flattering even though his hIs treatment of the dethroned emperor is sympathetic He shows how Europe again and again was led to the verge of war var because of Wilhelms Wilhelm's passion for playing the great power game He shows how Wilhelm Vilhelm rejected rejected re re- re- re an alliance with England a score score of years years' ago because he lie wanted to develop a. a bi big navy navy navy-as as a sort of toy one OTle gathers and gathers and with Germany and Britain allied this would have been impossible He shows how the f foreign policy of Germany again and again f was shaped not i in accordance with the aspirations aspirations aspirations aspi aspi- rations of its people but in accord with Wilhelm's Wilhelms Wilhelms Wilhelm's Wil Nil helms helm's own overweening ambitions Its It's a a. book worth reading in these days when you find ind so many people wondering if the World var war wasn't just a frightfully useless blunder on the part of a all concerned A blunder it may have been but not useless Not entirely so Whatever may be said at least the peace of Europe is not now dependent on the whims and caprices of one egotistic seeking fame man At least the world has learned that the he great power game is dangerous to play at it when the lives of millions must be the pa pawns |