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...While in Doorn, Holland, this summer, a CRIMSON reporter attempted to see the exiled Wilhelm II for an interview, but His Majesty repeatedly refused to grant an interview. The reporter was finally forced to resort to correspondence. In one instance the Kaiser's opinion of the League of Nations was asked. The following vitriolic message was the answer...
However tenacious old memories may be, the University should not lose altogether a certain sense of gratitude. In an era of world peace enthusiasm Americans might leave the question of his guilt to the perspective historians and relinquish the bitterness toward the woodchopper of Doorn...
...birthday of the Kaiser Wilhelm II has passed quietly at Doorn and perhaps the royal exile did not wholly miss the gala festivities which the occasion formerly brought to the Fatherland. While many continue to censure him as a sabrerattling militarist, the war has passed, and with it should go the lingering animosities which it provoked...
Thomas St. John Gaffney, onetime U. S. Consul-General in Berlin, returning from a visit with Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft...
Perhaps most arresting of all is a theory which Wilhelm of Doorn advanced in a potent sentence, well worth pondering: "The intercession of the crucified Lord, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,' is not intended for the Jewish leaders but for the poor German legion aries, who, acting under the orders of their superiors, must inflict dire suffering upon the Lord...