"What bit of writing plainer tells
That neither love nor mercy dwells
Within his heart? What picture grim
Could better paint the soul of him?"
The Kaiser was reported to have said that no family in Germany had
escaped loss. Perhaps he was "gratified" at this as he was at the fact
that Frau Meter had lost nine sons. One family in Germany lost neither
father nor any one of the six adult sons,--the family of Kaiser William
II. Certainly no other family in Germany of such a size escaped loss.
Would the Kaiser have felt equally "gratified" if his six sons had
given up their lives in fighting Germany's war of plunder and conquest?
In the last days of the war, American soldiers found upon a German
prisoner a postal card with a picture of Quentin Roosevelt lying dead
beside his airplane. Below was printed in German the statement that
America was so short of fliers, that she had to use her presidents'
sons. Germans could not understand that in America the presidents'
sons would be the first to offer their services and for work of the
most dangerous kind. The sons of the Kaiser were carefully kept out of
danger.