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Show MITE CARLO PICE'S LETTER TO IHEIOLLER! PARIS, Dec. 27 Prince Albert of Monaco has given to the Associated Press a remarkablo letter has has addressed ad-dressed to former Emperor "William .which promised to rival the notable revelations made by prince Lichnow-sky, Lichnow-sky, German ambassador at London, the outbreak of the war. The letter gives textually many conversations con-versations with the ex-emperor on. his war projects and also a nurilber4bf letters let-ters addressed to the prince as "My Dear Cousin," and signed "your highness' high-ness' devoted, friend, cousin and admirer, ad-mirer, William I. R." , The conversations cover years of loso intimacy during which Prince fAlbcrt was a frequent guest of (he .emperor at Berlin and Kiel and at the i . . f emperor's summer palace on the island of Corfu. The prince's letter "to his Majesty William II," addresses the former German ruler directly throughout through-out as "sire." It recalls their conversations con-versations in which the emperor expressed ex-pressed his ideas for Germany's future fu-ture and then gives the successive steps in which he yielded to the military mili-tary element. Explaining the purposos of his letter, let-ter, Prince Albert writes: "I speak with serenity after seventeen seven-teen years of effort to enlighten you upon the only path which would maintain main-tain the rival nations within the limits lim-its of justice and dignity and would re-unltc in peace the interests of France and Germany. I speak with firmness of soul in revolt against the spectacle of the plot of force to annihilate an-nihilate law and honor, all the beauties beau-ties of civilization and all the conquests con-quests of man over the brute. "It was open to you to become tho greatest figure of all time if you had directed your power to repairing tho Injustice weighing on Europo and given giv-en your high authority to the ideals of right, justice and peace to which mankind man-kind now eagerly is turning. But in stead you maintained the brutal customs cus-toms of a military monarchy until Germany, which could have won world power based on civilization has dragged drag-ged vou down in Its false ideas and blind folly." Recalling lo the ex-emperor their conversations the prince says: "I was deeply Impressed with the talk the other day with you when we inaugurated tho Observatory of Led-enburg. Led-enburg. When I condemned the militarizing mili-tarizing of a people as stunting individual indi-vidual development you described to me .the advantages of such a form of national education outside its purely military objects, because, as you said, it relieved men from tho heaviness of .their bearing. This was your conception con-ception of the principal end of a system sys-tem the application of which is terrifying ter-rifying the world. Today In the path of your armies are strewn the marks of this education, which I charge betray be-tray your tine end or error." For Deliberate War "Although you said to me one day that it was not your right to take a certain action which would have conserved con-served world peace, yet you told me on the yacht Meteor, on June 2S, 1911, in learning of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. 'Now I must do everything over again.' "Hi'story will recognize in these two manifestations of your conscience the truth of your responsibility for a deliberate de-liberate war. In an interview I had with you on the same yacht on the morning of the same day I noted certain cer-tain points disclosing your real purpose. pur-pose. When I said to you that I believed be-lieved the majority of the French supported sup-ported the idea of a rapprochment with Germany, you answered me with unusual un-usual emphasis: 'Yes, but we mu3t hurry or else it will bo too late and other arrangements will be necessary to establish the position of the nations of Europe. Here arq the Anglo-Saxons understanding their true interests and trying to group themselves in joint protection against tho yellow races. ra-ces. Even this year President Wilson and England havo used diplomatic language. They understand also that there Is nothing to do with Germany than to accept her as she is.' " Sensational Talk After thus quoting the emperor's language, Prince Albert said : "You afterward talked at length to convince me you had no bad sentiment senti-ment toward France or anyone, and you remarked to me that you might have fallen upon Russia when she was ruined by her war with Japan, and upon France when 300,000 French soldiers sol-diers were In hospitals. When I answered an-swered you that France's pacific Intentions In-tentions were shown by the tendency to reduce her military forces, you had nothing more to say." The prince then relates a sensational sensation-al conversation in which tho emperor, pointing to a British squadron visiting Kiel, foresaw the coming of war. "The transformation of your mentality men-tality become evident to me in Juno, 1914, when, upon the deck of the Hoh: enzollern at Kiel, you said to me with Irritation as you saw the English ! squadron come to salute you: If they oblige me to make war the world will .see .what it has never known before.' Former Crown Prince "Your mind seemed touched with a last gleam of foresight as these ferocious fe-rocious views took form. Perhaps you still wished to resist the monstrous obsession of those demanding war, for j you added- 'Upon those ships where ' English officers are about to laugh and dance with our young women they seem very far from dreaming of male- -nig war.' " Prince Albert then relates numerous numer-ous conversations when the Russian i emperor proposed an international court at The Hague. "You disclosed 1 to me one day your real thoughts upon this noble movement in remarking to mo, with a smile, that you were happy to participate in the czar's conferences, confer-ences, but did so by appointing as your delegates the most vigorous Ger- Inan generals." Prince Albert's letter let-ter continues- ; "I recall also that when I asked your support for the first international ma- . rine congress you referred me to Admiral Ad-miral von Tirpltz, for whom the soul of the sailor will never have any respect " I The prince gives a conversation ? with the German crown prince as , showing his attitude toward The j Hague tribunal. 'Talking with the J crown prince at his Kreuth residence J . In Bavaria, I complimented you on of- ji 3 fering to settle tho Casablanca affair i before The Hague tribunal. Tho heir J to the imperial throne answered xne . that the chancellor had. made a mis- take in accepting that arrangement, j ' 'because,' said the crown prince, 'the Jl French are right in that affair, but .JJ a powerful state should never a.roid MB war oven when it is in the wrong. Ij under penalty of losing its prestige'" j h In-another talk with Emperor WI1 i Jt Ham, the prince says tho emperor Te- h. marked that he held tho Russian czar : f in his hands. In this connection. . ft Prince Albert writes: h "In the series of crimes for which " K Germany must, bear responsibility. ,o f1 there is one which will revolt human- ly for all times. Nicholas II was in- m cabbie of lying or betraying his al 9N lies. Ho wished lo perform his du- tti ties, not agreeing with your wishes. ,! w although you told mo you held him" in V your hands. Nicholas eluded your : , suggestions, but was assassinated by hi your Bolshevik accomplices without your intervening to saye him." v-1 r i |