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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:
"This League of Nations," the Emperor begins, "is in itself contradictory nonsense and is absolutely worthless! The so-called 'League of Nations' is in reality only a concern composed of those nations who rushed at Germany in criminal onslaught like a band of highway robbers at a traveller.
"They robbed Germany of all her colonies, of ships, money, arms, and prevented her re-arming by a treaty based upon lies, punished her for a crime she never committed, and refused to return to her the private property of her subjects in their countries.
"The League of Nations' is based upon the monstrous lie of Germany's War-Guilt. This is now being unveiled as a lie. Consequently the Versailles Treaty must fall, full restitution of the 14 points must take place, according to these full restitutions to Germany; that, is full return of the spoils by the robbers to the despoiled country.
"This could cause the natural end of the totally unnatural, immoral, unjust 'League of Nations' which is rightly named by the world at large 'Personified Impotence.'"
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