I do not care what my toes say about me. 1 do not recognize the. as my judges. Wnen 1 see how th. same peuple who exaggerated' spread incense before ne in of! days are now villiiying me, th. most that I can feel is pity. Th. bitter things that 1 hear about m)- self from home disappoint me. God is my witness that 1 have ai ways wished what was best for m) country and my people, and I be lieved that every German had re cognized and appreciated this. 4 have always tricu to keep my political acts, everything that 1 din ovuler and a man, in harmony with God's commandments. Much turn. ed-out dilierenly from what I de sired, but my conscience is clean. The welfare of my people and empire was the youl of my actions I boar my personal fate with re signation, for the Lord knows what Ho docs and what He wishes. Hi knows why He subjects me to this twat, I shall bear everything witl patience and await whatsoever God still holds in store for me he only thing that grieves m the tate Of my country and uy, people. L am pained al the ba. period of trial which my cultures. of tue German land ale Unuerge ing, which 1—obliged to live in tur eign paris—caunoc suner with Phot is the sword thrust whee: pierces through my soul; chat what 19 bicwr yo we, tore in ssuly tude J, still feel and think suld for the German people, still woud. how 1 can better matters and nel; with enlightenment anu counsel.
Nor can bitter criticism ever less-wu my love for my laud and people. I remain faithful we the mans, no matter how each individual German may wow stan. with regard tu me. Yo those wir stand by me in wustortune aus Lie, stood 1 prosperity, 4 aw graterulthey contort ime and relieve min, gnawing homesickness for my Joved German home. And 1 ca: respect those who, impelled -honest convictions, array then selves against me; as for the res. let them look to justifying them. selves to God, their consciences any history.
They will not succeed 'n separate ing ins from the Germans. Always I can look unau country and peopir solely og one whole. They remain to me what they were when I said on the occasion of the opening vi the Reichstag on August 1. 1914, in the Imperial Palace:—"1 know no more of parties; 1 kno" only Germans."
The revolution broke the Em. press's heart. She aged visibly from November, 1918, onward, and could not resist her bodily ills with the strength of before. Thus her decline soon began. The hardest of adi for her to bear was her home
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