Intrigues

Report and rumors were current of attempts to influence the ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, now living upon his estates at Oels, in Silesia.

A mass meeting at Winterfeld, Brandenburg, had a telegram sent to the Crown Prince asking his consent to form a party among the Agrarians and Nationalists to press his candidacy for the Presidency of the German Republic. The Prince did not reply.

Leaders of the numerous Monarchist Parties and associations in Germany were reported to have approached the Crown Prince to urge him to seize the throne. It was also stated that Bavarian support was assured through an arrangement whereby ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht would be made King of Bavaria. What the Crown Prince replied was not published.

At a meeting of the staff and students of the Berlin University, a speaker declared that the country was looking forward to a king. This statement was greeted with "deafening applause."

Ex-Crown Princess Cecilia, wife of the ex-Crown Prince, was reported about to publish a book entitled Summer at the Sea Shore. It has nothing to do with royalty or politics. The foreword reads:

This little book was written shortly before the war, during the streamingly bright summer days of the year 1914, when one was protected by political security. Heavy years have passed for us Germans, but nothing has destroyed that fellow feeling we have for the sun, water and earth.

And if I have resolved to give this little sketch further circulation, I do it to give a little pleasure to those who, burdened by the material misery of every day life in Germany, seek to save themselves by a glimpse into the broad "out there," which God's nature always' opens to the seeking mind. The Vossische Zeitung, Berlin Socialist journal, commenting upon this foreword, said that the public must appreciate the fact that the book was written by the Crown Princess before the War, and that she has not, like "most writers from the former higher regions, learned to write after the War --and then they were forced to have some one guide their pens."