Their influence on the Kaiser was reinforced by the support of the Crown Prince until the Emperor grew jealous of his oldest son and sent him into virtual banishment after 1912. The heir to the Imperial throne, nicknamed the windhund — greyhound — because of his lean, aristocratic good looks, was a steadier and more responsible person than his father, but his political outlook was close to that of the most irresponsible Pan-Germanists and Big Navy fanatics. He had published writings stressing the moral wholesomeness of war and had denounced the ideal of universal peace as an “un-German
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