GERMANY: In Potsdam

If there is any Prince in Europe whom one would expect to regale his countrymen with travelogs, it would be the Prince of Wales. Yet it was not he but Louis Ferdinand, second son of the quondam Crown Prince, of Germany who appeared last week in a little church at Potsdam to describe “for the benefit of a few friends” a recent trip he took to Spain.

Civil service officials and the old imperial servants crowded the church. The Press was barred (and took its revenge the next day in sarcastic derision).

The Prince said: “The thing that binds Spain and Germany together is the fact that we have common enemies—glory-seeking France and England.”

The Prince said: “The most Spanish of all Spaniards is the King himself. By combining the German method of working at high pressure with the Spanish customs the King has brought the Spanish people forward.”

The Prince said: “I can assure you that the war against Morocco is not the most popular.”

The Prince said that the difference between the Spanish and the Germans was that the Spanish were more phelgmatic.

The Prince said that the Spanish maidens were not as amorous as commonly described, but really very quiet-loving.

The Prince said that the Alhambra was really “wunderschon.”

When he had finished a group of youths in steel helmets formed in line outside the church. Their uniforms were embroidered with swastikas and the letters “L. F.” As the Prince emerged they formed around him and escorted him home to his parents who were waiting for their 18-year-old son.