XXVII AFTER THE WAR, WHAT? 368

ILLUSTRATIONS

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THE KAISER AND VON TREUTLER _Frontispiece_

THE IRON CROSS 36

THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY STAFF, BERLIN 50

FACSIMILE OF AN ORDER ISSUED BY COMMANDER OF GERMAN PRISON CAMP
OF DOEBERITZ 78

COVER OF PAMPHLET BY JOHN L. STODDARD 104

PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN COURTYARD OF EMBASSY, AUGUST, 1916 126

EXAMPLE OF A COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL OFFERED FOR SALE 152

VIEWS OF A TYPICAL HOLSTEIN COUNTRY HOME 188

MAIN STAIRWAY IN THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, BERLIN 210

AMBASSADORS SHARP AND GERARD, PARIS, FEBRUARY, 1917 240

THE "INFANTA ISABELLA" 274

PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AFTER BANQUET GIVEN AMBASSADOR GERARD ON JANUARY
6TH, 1917 304

THE CROWN PRINCE AND CROWN PRINCESS 316

REPRODUCTION OF ZEPPELIN POST CARD OF PATRIOTIC SENTIMENT 336

ZEPPELIN POST CARD SOLD IN GERMANY 336

FACE TO FACE WITH KAISERISM

CHAPTER I

PERSONALITY OF THE KAISER AND SOMETHING OF THE KING BUSINESS

To the American mind the Kaiser is the personification of
Germany. He is the arch enemy upon whom the world places the
responsibility for this most terrible of all wars. I have sat
face to face with him in the palace at Berlin where, as the
personal representative and envoy of the President of the United
States, I had the honor of expressing the viewpoint of a great
nation. I have seen him in the field as the commanding general of
mighty forces, but I also have seen him in the neutral countries
through which I passed on my return home and in my own beloved
land--in the evidence of intrigue and plotting which this
militaristic monarch has begotten and which is to-day "the
Thing," as President Wilson calls it, which has brought the
American people face to face with kaiserism in the greatest
conflict of all history.

What manner of man is he? What is his character? How much was he
responsible for what has happened--ho