Pathos and bathos were surely never more oddly blended than
in the Hohenzollern rally on Monday at Doom for the celebration of the ex-Kaiser's seventieth birthday. The only notable absentee in the 'glorification ceremonies was Princess Hermine, the wife of the ex-Kaiser, who is not popular with her step-family. She had what the Observer correspondent calls a " diplo- matic illness." The ex-Kaiser's recent book, My Ancestors, is a characteristic attempt to justify to posterity his conception of government. Whatever 'our children may think of his antics, there can be nothing but praise for the attitude of official Germany. Herr Severing, the Socialist Minister of the Interior, referred to the Emperor in exile with quiet dignity ; " We do not kick a 'man when he is down, but we reject any distortion of history."
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