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t t i i perf reaees Fie @ Rinctth- aloet pb. 40it BY eeanee fo the Zuyder Zre ewent stantiy by high winds from tie North, Kea. Gortertand ie a mnall he: sitet on the north where. Two bundee! yards from: the Prince's house “wars TPAr against the dike. { Spends Winter Ia Siess- of One veaches the island by reilveny.! ;| moter car and motor boats eomplex, i}alow, fatiguing journey. fhe closest. :Leonnection froin Amaterdam. to. the Jand- ing glece st De Hoauke’s took me 20 hours, Per weeks in winter communi: jl eation with the mainland is cot off and no visitors come. 5 : “What do-you do the” 1 asked the - aa study my books and papers,” he replied, “and wait: for epring.” . But this desdly taclation has failed ie make sty notiernble: impression on the epirit or. frame of the Prince, There ave touches. of gray in hie sandy beir, ‘lout be otilt de erect ase drill rergeant, and as quick in speech and movement. Very fall, slim and ltbe, and now amenth-shaven, he looks much like a big. DOF. Teike Sheewaly OF War, But cortainis there is potbing imma- ture: sbout his Idess, Among all the Germany} bare telked to during the past sis weeks, ranking from high of- Gals to newspaper editors and from gol: versity professors to business. men, i ean recall none whose views of pant and ‘present events eonteln lees of Unesion. [Be discusses. the war objectively and with grent alirewdness and accepts his preeent position uncomplainingly. Ik i} uncomfortable, but. so is every other German's povition, “Germany,” be wai tesks and almost lotolereble burdens an: ft fe naturally bard for any Germen to have to stand by without taking a bond. iV.-atocezely wish I could be more actively emplofed, but certainiy beve no. desire to _cainplicste the preaent situation by rai: ‘fing facthonal questions. It would be al urd, of course. to say 3ynastic consider ations do sot interest me, but they as urediy take. accond place inmy though(a. lin auch days ag these Tam, frst: of atl, ja German citizen and soldier, As guch |eve duty is precisely that of every other ,"*fecea atupendaue good Getman—to subordinste personal fortunes and even pereonsl: opinions te the ¢enmon: good. wo we = “Watleaal Unity Serdee "l “What we need today above all is na- lujonal unity. A thoroughly united Gee Many would be unbreakable?” . T asked the Prinee 1f be. would vote, fj) auppoding himeelf at homie. . tainly,” he: answered: “any wife slways votes. Why shouldn't 17" Watchful Major Mueldner evidentiy feared 1. would ak bim bow be would vote, but the Prince .bimwself saved the Situation. . . * “§ sefuse to anewer,” be said with 4 “The baliot is by. law and ya try-to obey the laws”) ° * (Ribose? Pitlosephicaliy. The Prince takes s philosophical view a? the extravegent tales abou? bits cir- enlated tn-Amezics during the-war, For example, the stories: of wholesale bar- Tea ey Ces cea x 5 a Sm Arfend Po receive, per : B~. q fair abere of: the Blane at ation. BSth at home and. abroad, but auch are fortunes of wer Jor commanding officers. “i donb? that any eave American xeri- nuply believes iolay L was guilty of the foutantic erimes 1 te me during thn war ‘Thet. m Pas must Recrkearity pass. Meanwhile it gives me no con- cer” Thinks U. 5. Shoold Aid Eerepe. Like most-other Germans, the Priare believea the European situation will never be genuinely: remedied until. the United States taken a band at il. “tt rather surpriee me.” be anid, ‘Ghat the United. Bintcs. 2s a -nasion | .> shows Hite concern about ike immediate future here, “Things ko steadily trom bad to wore—J don't mean ia Germany slone, but everzwhers on. the Continent. Here in rich, peaceful Hollend, among: peopls famous fer indusirr and business capac- ity, the effects of the Germon situetian are everywhere visible. Hollandere qunt.aell their goods, but their best cus- tomer, Germaty, can no longer buy, gor will xhe ever buy: in. unt). there faa radical dealing ith the esite whith. beaet her. - . “| heer that trade ia eimost a bedlx paralssed in the two Americas and for the game renson. Europe simply canane buy. the surplus of the naturel producta ot-the Western Hemisphere. Thus, one- balf of the civilized world aces ite crops rotting in field and warebouse and tbe other balt faces starvation. . Blamee Versaitien Treaty. ‘ © Phe underlying cause ofall this dis- organiaation and distrexs 9 the Ver- disalllee treaty. It was made in ager and in’ total disregard of the mow ee mentary economic laws and common conse, Today the fact. thet it fs utteris unworkable jn obvious to everyone. 3t ig doing aimost. as much damage in France, in. fect, as to Germany, anit gearcety lens-to the other Allies and we wevirale “The aperch of Reginsld MeKenns in New York last week ongbt. to be. ac cepted by the whole world sn a plain warping. BMeKenna &nows fhe nitua- tion, tharoughly, and be told the simple truth. . . “Phe entrance of ihe United Staten as Ubrew-ibe-balance téware———~— the Allies and wae largely: renponsibie * for their victory. But the United Btatex opnoaed the treaty before it was signed and. bas never retifed it sinee, 7 ain in hopes that ibe view of it: thus tedi- cated Will gradually win over those wha oN believe itcan be executed. Failing in that bope, J can see-un wey out eave through a catastrophe. Tont catestro- phe, renember, ig not remote; it ties Ureethe sround. the corner.”” + Keser To See America. “The Prince told me he was very eager to. wee the United Btates, but chat, d¢. said, mayst wait. for better times, This ix no day for Germans to be traveling. There is too much work to do at home,” and too Ntile moner. * Oertainiy the Nitle household at Gee- teriand shows na sigus of wealth, The igu dg France. He collecte such febleas puuee jtself—ponce the parsonage of a — a> ‘ ian bumoroue interest and was eoper ently delightad whb -eéveral J contrib: uted from the archives vf the Creel press ° | prada. | iC {Suck noneensical tibeis,’} he erfd. “de Tol Senos me hell es ro’ @o thelr au. thors grohablr think. Absee af that ert gore with the trade X waa bern to. If Germany had wos & everping Victory 2d have got ap Crowe Psince fos wore lonely church on the sand dines, now. abindoned—after four yeare xbows some mall comforts, but ther are the com- forte of B pisio citixes, not of a. Prince: The new boure of the Burgumeister af Wieringen ie ten times ae luxurious _ Until eis months ago the Primes and biw edjutant lived ae in mesenrer quae- tore. caw leat they beve in beth- ~ own aed begie i¢ frei like well-tede