y party, had
to be forged, for never again would there be a moment so favorable for
the complete destruction of Austria and the humiliation of Germany.
Servia was thrust to the front. Russia's Ambassador managed that
wonderfully. The fire was set in so skillful a manner that the
incendiaries knew in advance there was no possibility of extinguishing
it. The conflagration must spread and soon blaze in all corners of
Europe.

What was the use of a Peace Conference in such circumstances? Conscious
of the irresistible consequences of their action the real rulers of
Russia sent forward their armies; it was now or never, if the work was
to be done with the help of England. And without England perhaps even
France would not consent to join.

Thus it came about, and thus we have seen the peaceful policy of the
German Emperor, which he has upheld for twenty-five years, completely
wrecked.

We are now fighting not only for our Fatherland, but also for the
emancipation of our culture from a menace that has become insupportable.

Yours faithfully,

TH. NIEMEYER,

Kaiser Wilhelm Professor, Columbia University.

*Comment by Dr. Max Walter*

To the letter addressed by Prof. Th. Niemeyer to the editor of The New
Yorker Staats-Zeitung (see No. 237, 3, 2, of Frankfurter Zeitung) I
should like to add the following remarks: During my activity as
Professor of the Methodics of Foreign Language Teaching at Teachers
College, Columbia University, New York, (January-June, 1911,) I was
introduced to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, with whom I had a long interview. He
expressed his views upon the peace question and arbitration, and spoke
for a long time about the German Emperor who had repeatedly received him
during his visits to Germany. He expressed his great appreciation of the
important services rendered by our Emperor for the maintenance of peace,
and declared that he, above all others, deserved the title of the
Peace-loving Monarch, (Friedensfuerst.) To him it was chiefly due that,
during the various crises which had repeatedly brought Europe to the
brink of war, the disaster had again and again been averted. The German
Emperor, he considered, looked upon it as his chief pride that no war
should take place during his reign, that Germany should develop and
prosper in peaceful emulation with other countries, and his greatest
desire was that other nations should recognize ungrudgingly that all
Germany did to raise the moral and ethical st