18 DECEMBER 1920, Page 3

The third volume of Bismarck's memoirs, which the German Emperor

suppressed, was described and summarized in a Berlin paper last Sunday. It seems that the ex-Kaiser, though an exile, is still influential enough at Berlin to prevent the book from being published. As Bismarck apparently told the truth about his vain and arbitrary master, we should have expected a revolutionary Germany to welcome his last work. The old Chancellor, it seems, concluded his memoirs with a warning prediction. " I see great perils arising in Germany and indeed for the whole of Europe. The longer the catastrophe is coming, the more terrible it will be." Precisely sixteen years after hit death the prediction was fulfilled.