Foreign News: Shamefully Maligned

Friedrich Wilhelm, sometime German Crown Prince, received a tribute of esteem last week from pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany James Watson Gerard. Said Mr. Gerard, speaking at the Lawyers Club, Manhattan: "The Crown Prince is a man of far greater ability, to my mind, than his father, and I think he is one of the most shamefully maligned individuals in the civilized world. Possibly on that account he will not be called to the throne; but the chances are that his eldest son Wilhelm, who is quite a fine young man, will be....

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