Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 247, 17 October 1922 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND 5 UN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 1922.

Ex-Kaiser Tells How He Tried to Induce Papal Nuncio to Tru

to Get Pope to Stop Conflict

BY WILHELM HOHENZOLLERN ! I have been Informed that an. im

portant role was played In the preparation ot the World War directed against the monarcnial Central Powers by the policy of the International "Great Oriental Lodge"; a policy extending over many years and always envisaging the goal at which It aimed. But the German Great Lodges, I was furthermore told with two exceptions wherein non-German financial Interests are paramount and which maintain secret connection with the "Great Orient" In Pairs had no relationship to tho "Great Orient." They were entirely loyal and faithful, according to the assurance given me by the distinguished German Free Mason who explained to me this whole interrelationship, which had, until then, been unknown to me. He said that, in 1917 an international meeting of the lodges

of the "Great Orient" was held, after

which there was a subsequent conference in Switzerland; at this the

following program was adopted: Dismemberment of Austria-Hungary, democrazation of Germany, elimination of the house of Hapsburg, abdication of the German Emperor, restitution of Alsace-Lorraine to France, union of Galicia with Poland, elimination of the

Pope and the Catholic church, elim

ination of every State - church in

Europe. 1 am not now in a position to inves

tigate the very damaging information which has been transmitted to me, in

the best of faith, concerning the organization and activities of the Great Orient Lodges. " Secret and public po

litical organizations have played im

portant parts in the life of peoples

and States, ever 6ince history has ex

isted. Some of them have been ben

eficial; most of them have been de

structive, if they had to have secret passwords which shunned the light of day. The most dangerous of these organizations hide under the cloak of tome ideal object or other such as active love of their neighbors, readiness to help the weak and poor, and so forth in order that, with such pretexts as a blind, they may work for their real secret ends. It is certainly advisable to study the activities of the Great Orient Lodges, since one cannot adopt a final attitude toward this world-wide organization until it has been thoroughly investigated. I shall not take up the war operations in this work. I shall leave this task all the more readily to my officers aa.t to historians, since I, writing as

l am wunoui a single uuiiuiueui., uum be able to describe events only in

very broad outline. When I look back upon the four arduous war years, with their hopes and fears, their brilliant victories and loss- - es in precious blood, what is uppermost in my mind is the feeling of ardent gratitude and undying admiration for the unequaled achievements of the German Nation in arms. , V ' Proud of German Army Just as no sacrifice in endurance and private was too great for those staying at home, so also the army, in defending itself during the war criminally forced upon us, did not merely overcome the crushing superiority of twenty-eight hostile nations, but likewise, on land and water and in the air, won victories whose glory may have paled a bit in the mists of the present day but, for that very reason will shine forth all the more bightly in the light of history. Nor is that all. Wherever there was distress among our allies, German intervention, often with weak forces, always "restored the situation and often won noteworthy successes. Germans fought on all the battlefields of the far-flung World War. Surely the heroic bravery of the German nation deserved a better fate than to fall a victim to the dagger

that treachously stabbed it from behihd; it seems to be the German des.tiny that Germans shall always be defeated by Germans. Recently I read the unfortunately not entirely unjustified words: "In Germany every .Siegfried has his Hodur behind him." j Finally, let me say a word concerning the German "atrocities" and give

After our odvtuice into Northern France T immediately ordered that art treasures be protected. Art-historians and professors were assigned to each army, who traveled about inspecting, photographing and describing churches chateaux and castles. Among them Professor Clemen, Curator of the Rhine Province, especially distinguished himself and reported to me, when I was at the front, on the protection of ait treasures. All the collections in towns, museums and castles were catalogued and numbered ; whenever they seemed to be imperiled by tSe fighting they were taken away and assembled, at Valenciennes and Maubeuge, in two splendid

'niuseui-js. Ther they were carefully preserved and tho name of the owner marked o:i each article. i The old windows cf the cathedral of St. Qua n tin were removed by German soldiers at the iisk cf their lives, under English shellfire. The story of the destruction of the church by the English was told by a German Catholic

priest, who published it with photographs, and it was sent, by my orders, to the Pope. At the chateau of Pinon. which belongs to the Princess of Poix, who had been a guest of mine and the Empress, the headquarters of the general commanding the Third Army Corps was located. 1 visited the chateau and lived there. Previously the English had been quartered there and had revaged the place terribly. The commanding general, von Lochow, and his staff had a great deal of trouble getting it into some sort of shape again after the devastation wrought by the English. Accompanied by the general. I visited the priviate apartments of the Princess, which, 'up to then, our soldiers had been forbidden to enter. I found that her entire wardrobe had been thrown out of the clothes presses by the English soldiers and. together with her hats, was lying about on the floor. 1 had every garment carefully cleaned, hung in"the presses, and locked up. The writing desk had also been broken Into and the Prine correspondence was scattered about. At my command, all the letters were gathered together, sealed in a package, placed in the writing desk and locked up. 1 Afterward, all the silverware was fo-.ind buried in the garden. - According to the villagers this had been ordered

as early as the beginning of July, soj

deposited in the bank at Aix-la Chapelle and returned to the princess after

ine war. Through neutral channels

caused the news to be trasmitted to

the Princess in Zwitzerland, by my Court Marshall. Freiherr von Rei3chach, concerning Pinon, her silverware, and my care for her property. No answer was received. Instead, the Princess had published in the French

press a letter to the effect that Gen

eral von Kluck had stolen all her

silver. On account of my care and the selfsacrificing work ot German art experts

and soldiers partly at the risk of

their lives art treasures worth billinos were preserved for their French owners and for French towns. This was done by the Huns, the boches! In the Summer of 1917 I received at Kreuznach a visit from the Papal Nuncio, Pacelli, who was accompanied by a chaplain. Pacelli is a distinguished, likeable man, of high intelligence and excellent manners, the perfect pattern of an eminent prelate of the Catholic church. He knows German well enough to understand it easily when he hears it, but not sufficiently to speak it with fluency. Our conversation was conducted in French, but the Nuncio now and then employed German, expressions of speech. The chaplain spoke German fluently nd took part even when not asked in the conversation, whenever he fared that the Nuncio was becoming to much influenced by what I said. Very soon the conversation turned on the possibilities of peace mediation and the bringing about of peace, in which connection all sorts of projects and possibilities .were touched upon, discussed and dismissed. Finally, I suggested that the Pope

snouia make an effort, seeing that my

peace offer of December 12, 1916, had

been rejected in such an unprecedent

ed manner. The Nuncio remarked that he thought such a step would be attended with great difficulties; that the Pope had already been rebuffed when he had made certain advances in this direction; that, aside from this,

the Pope was absolutely in despair

on account of the slaughter and wonder

ed ceaselessly how he might help to

ward freeing the world and European

culture from the scourge of war. Any suggestion as to this, he added, would

be most valuable to the Vatican. I stated that the Pope, as the high

est in rank among all the priests of the Roman Catholic Christians and church, should first of all seek to issue

instructions to his priests in all count

ries to banish hate, once for all, from

their minds, since hate was the great

est obstacle in the path of the peace idea; that it was, unfortunately, true that the clergy in the Entente

countries were, to a positively fright

ful extent, the standard-bearers and

instigators of hate and fighting.

I called atteneion to the numerous reports from soldiers at the beginning

of the war concerning abbes and parish priests captured with arms in their hands; to the machinations of Cardinal

Mercier and the Belgian clergy, mem

bers of which often worked as spies;

to the sermon of theProtestant Bishop

of London, who, from the pulpit, glor

ified the Baralong murderers; and

to other similar cases. I added that it would be, therefore, a great achievement if the Pope should succeed in having the Roman Catholic clergy in

all the countries at war condemn hatred and recommend peace, as was al

ready being done by German clergy, be

it from the pulpit or by means of

pastoral letters. Urged Papal Intercession

Pacelli found this idea excellent and

worthy of attention, but he remarked that it would be difficult to enlist the efforts of the various prelates in its

support. I replied that, in view of the

severe discipline of the hierarchy of

the Roman Catholic church, I could

not imagine that, if the Pope should solemnly call upon the prelates of the church to preach reconciliation and

consideration for the foe those of

any country whatsoever should refuse

obedience; that the prelates, on ac

count or ineir eminent rank, were

above all parties, and, since reconcill-

iation and love of our neighbor were

fundamental principles of the Christ

ian religion, they were absolutely in

duty bound to work toward making

people oDserve these principles.

Pacelli agreed to this and promised

to give the idea his earnest attention and report it to the Vatican. In the further course of the conversation, the Nuncio asked what form beyond the

purely ecclesiastical step suggested by

mo tne nrinning about of peace possi

bilities through the intervention of the Pope mieht take. I pointed out that

Italy and Austria were two Roman Catholic States, upon which the Pone

could bring influence to bear easily and effectively; that one of these lands

was his native country and place of residence, in which he was greatly revered by the people and exerted direct influence upon his fellow-countrymen; that Austria was ruled by a sovereign who actually bore the title "apostolic"; who. with all his family, had direct relations with the Vatican and was

among the most faithful adherents of

the Catholic church; that I was, therefore, of the opinion that it would not be difficult for the Pope to try with these two countries and cause them to talk peace. I added that the diplomatic skill and wide vision of the Vatican were known the world over; that, if once a beginning' were made in this way and it had a good chance of success the other powers could scarcely refuse an invitation from the Vatican later on to an exchange of views, which should be, at first not binding upon them. The Nuncio remarked that it would be difficult for the Vatican to make the Italian Government agree to such a thing since it had no direct relations with the said Government and no influence upon its members; that the Italian Government would never look with favor upon an invitation, even to mere conferencesHere the chaplain interposed that such a step by1 the Pope was absolutely out of the question since it would entail consequences which might be actually dangerous to the Vatican ; the Government would at once moMjize the "piazza" (man in. the ' street) agHfnst the Vatican, and the Vatican certainly cohld not expose itself to that. When I refused to attach importance to this objection, the chap-

un grew more and more excited. He

soon as the "pizza" got into action things woul get disagreeable: that, if

ll uiu, lucre was evca a yusaiuuitjr ui an attack on the Vatican, which might actually imperil the life of the Pope himself. Scouts Danger from "Pizza" I replied that I, too, was well acquainted with the Vatican; that no rabble or "pizza" could storm it; that, in addition, the Pope had a strong party of adherents in society circles and among the people, which would at once be ready to defend him. The

Nuncio agreed with me, but the chaplain continued unabashed to expatiate

upon the terrors of the "piazza" and

paint the risks run by the Pope in

the blackest ot colors.

I then remarked that any one wish'

ing to capture the Vatican must first

get a battery of heavy mortars and

howitzers, as well as pioneers and

storm troops, and institute a regular

siege; that all this was scarcely pos

sible for the "piazza"; that, therefore.

it was highly improbable that the lat

ter would undertake anything. More

over, I mentioned having heard that

measures had already been taken in

the Vatican to guard against such an

emergency. At this the priest was

silent.

The Nuncio then' remarked that it

was difficult for the Pope to do any

thing really practical toward peace without giving offense and arousing

opposition in lay Italy, which would place him in danger; that it must be borne in mind that he was, unfortunately, not free; that had the Pope a country, or at least a district of his own where he could govern autonomously and do as he pleased, the situation would be quite different; that, as matters stood, he was too dependent upon lay Rome and not able to act according to his own free will.

I remarked that the aim of bringing

peace to the world was so holy and

great that it was impossible for the Pope to be frightened away, by purely worldy considerations, from accomplishing such a task, which seemed created especially for him; that, shoul he succeed in it, the grateful wold would assuredly bring influence to bear upon the Italian Government in

suport of his wishes and of his inde

pendence.

This made an impression on the

Nuncio, he remarksd that I was right, after all; that the Pope must do some

thing in the matter.

Then I called the attention of the

Nuncio to the following point: He must have noticed, I said, how the

Socialists of all countries were zeal

ously working in favor of peace efforts I told him that we had always allowed the German Socialists to travel to foreign parts in order to discuss the question of making peace at conferences, because I believed them to be acquaint

ed with the desires and views of the lower classes; that we placed no obstacles in the path of anybody desiring to work honestly and without veiled

purpose in the interests . of peace;

that the same desires for peace also

existed among the Entente nations

and among their Socialists, but that the latter were prevented by refusal

of passports from attending confer

ences in neutral lands; that the desire for peace was gaining strength in the world, nations were acquiring it more

and more, and if nobody in any Gov

ernment should be found willing to work for peace I, unfortunately had

failed in my attempt the peoples would finally take the matter into their own hands. I added that this would occur without serious shocks and revolutions, as history proved,

through which the Roman Catholic

church and the Pope would not come

unscathed. .

Wins Promise of Action What must a Catholic soldier think,

I asked, when' he reads always of ef

forts by Socialists only, never of an

effort by the Pope, to free him from

the horrors of war? If the Pope did

nothing I continued, there was danger

of peace being forced upon the world by the Socialists, which would mean the end of the power of the Pope and

the Roman church, even among Cath pjics.

This argument struck home to the

Nuncio. He stated that he would at once report it to the Vatican and give

it his support; that the Pope would

have to act.

Greatly worried, the chaplain again interposed, remarking that the Pope

would endanger nimseir by such a course; that the "piazza" would at

tack him.

To this I replied that I was a Protestant.and, hence, a heretic in the chaplain's eyes, notwithstanding which I was obliged to point ont that the Pope was designed the "Viceroy of

Christ upon earth by the Catholic

church and world; that I had, in study

ing the Holy Scriptures, occupied my

self earnestly and carefully with the person of the Saviour and sought to that the Lord had never feared the

immerse myself profoundly therein;

"piazza" although no fortress-like building, with guards and weapons, was at His disposal; that the Lord

had always walked into the midst of the "piazza," spoken to it, and finally gone to his death on the cross for the

sake of this hostile "piazza."

Was I now to believe,. I asked, that His "Viceroy upon earth" was afraid

of the possibility of becoming a martyr, like his Lord, in order to bring

peace to the bleeding world, all on

account of the ragged 'Roman "piazza'

I, the Protestant, thought far too high

ly of a Roman priest, particularly of

the rope, to believe such a thing,

Nothing could be more glorious for

him, I went on, than to devote him

self unreservedly, body and soul, to

the great case of peace, even despite

the remote danger of thus becoming

a martyr.

With shining eyes, the Nuncio grasp

ed my hand and said, deeply moved

"Vous avez parfaitemeat raison! Cest

le devoir du Pape, il faut quil agisse,

cest par lui que le monde doit etre regagne a la paix. Je trasmettrai vos

paroles a Sa Saintete." (You are abso

lutely right! It is the duty of the Pope; he must act; it is through him that the world must be won- back to peace. I shall transmit your words

to His Holiness.)

The chaplain turned away, shaking

his head, and murmured to himself "Ah, la piazza, la piazza!" (Continued Tomorrow) -

ih Princess had known about the warsai(l t13 I did not know the Romans;

inn before its outbreak. I at once that, when they were incited they

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