502 COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN GERMANY. 



conference and able, wise and diplomatic statesmen could readily 

 formulate such a plan on practical lines and in intent and purpose 

 the poet's dream would be realized. 



" Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furled 

 In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world, 

 There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe 

 And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law." 



Greek met Greek when the Kaiser and Colonel Roosevelt 

 clasped hands on the marble steps of Frederick the Great's historic 

 New Palace at Potsdam. The meeting between the world's two 

 chief exponents of the strenuous life was cordial and friendly m 

 the extreme. Clad in a picturesque white uniform of the Garde du 

 Corps, with a helmet surmounted by a shimmering silver eagle, the 

 Kaiser looked every inch the War Lord immortalized by myriad 

 photographs as he and the Colonel stood shaking hands vigorously 

 and enthusiastically for almost a full minute. 



AN ENTHUSIASTIC GREETING BY THE EMPEROR. 



His Majesty generously exceeded conventional requirements by 

 waiting for his guest's approach at the outdoor steps instead of re- 

 maining within. As the result of scrupulously secret preparations, 

 the complete details of the long waited for event perhaps will be 

 never known, even the services of a master of ceremonies to make 

 the presentation being dispensed with, so none can repeat the exact 

 language of the greeting. 



Colonel Roosevelt, who arrived in Berlin on May lO, and spent 

 the forenoon at the American Embassy, was escorted to Potsdam 

 by General Alfred von Loewenfeld, the personal representative of 



the Emperor. 



The Colonel was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roose- 

 velt and Kermit; Mr. Hill and Mrs. Hill; Captain Samuel G. 

 Shartle, the military attache, and Lt. Commander Reginald R, 

 Belknap, the naval attache of the American Embassy. 



As their carriages drove into the courtyard Emperor Wiliam 



