forever misjudged,
to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinized
with jealous, mistrustful eyes taxes my patience severely. I have
said time after time that I am a friend of England, and your press,
or at least a considerable section of it, bids the people of
England to refuse my proffered hand and insinuates that the other
hand holds a dagger. How can I convince a nation against its will?"

Complaining again of the difficulty imposed on him by English
distrust, his Majesty said: "The prevailing sentiment of large
sections of the middle and lower classes of my own people is not
friendly to England. I am, therefore, so to speak, in the minority
in my own land, but it is a minority of the best element, just as
it is in England respecting Germany."

The Englishman reminded the Kaiser that not only England but the
whole of Europe viewed with disapproval the recent sending of the
German Consul at Algiers to Fez and forestalling France and Spain
by suggesting the recognition of Sultan Mulai Hafid. The Kaiser
made an impatient gesture and exclaimed: "Yes? that is an excellent
example of the way German actions are misrepresented," and with
vivid directness he defended the aforesaid incident, as the German
Government has already done.

The interviewer reminded the Kaiser that an important and
influential section of the German newspapers interpreted these acts
very differently, and effusively approved of them because they
indicated that Germany was bent upon shaping events in Morocco.

"There are mischief makers," replied the Emperor, "in both
countries. I will not attempt to weigh their relative capacity for
misrepresentation, but the facts are as I have stated. There has
been nothing in Germany's recent action in regard to Morocco
contrary to the explicit declaration of my love of peace made both
at the Guildhall and in my latest speech at Strassburg."

Kaiser and the Boer War.

Reverting to his efforts to show his friendship for England, the Kaiser
said they had not been confined to words. It was commonly believed that
Germany was hostile to England throughout the Boer war. Undoubtedly the
newspapers were hostile and public opinion was hostile. "But what," he
asked, "of official Germany? What brought to a sudden stop, indeed, to
an absolute collapse, the