Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09
LORDCURz0NP PERHAPS
Friends Anxious for Him to Sue
coed Durand.
CHANCES AGAINST HIM
Compromise Seems Probable on the
Education Bill.
CROWN PRINCE OF SERVIA
If he is Not Mad He is at Least a
Hard Case-Duchess of
Roxborough.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, November a, 1906.
| In spite of the official denial that the
British foreign office contemplated appoint
ing Lord Curzon as the successor to Sir
Mortimer Durand, many of the latter's
friends are working in his behalf, and the
rumor is persistently revived that the late
viceroy of India will be the next British am
! oassador at Washington. personally 1 do
| not believe in the rumor. There seems to
| be too much against its probability First,
the high Office he has occupied in India :;
second, his inclination to enter politics at
home, and thirdly his natural reluctance to
undertake an office demanding such social
obligations the Washington post without
! his wife to help him discharge them
| ceptably.
Though the suggestion is made again, it
| is at present entirely devoid of authority,
! and is in fact, as Lord Curzon himself
| said a famous occasion, IAN intelligent
anticipation of events before they occur"
| But. to say the least. it is not intrinsically
! improbable. His friends point out that
| there is Lord CurZon'S connection with
America through his marriage and the
| fact that it would obviously be high COM
| pliment to the Americans if man of Lord
Curzon's prestige and experience should be
selected for what Sir Mortimer Durand has
called the most important diplomatic posi-
| ton in the world.
! The threa tened fight between the house
of commons and the peers, owing to the
deadlock on the education bill, has, l be-
! lieve, been averted,a and a compromise will
be made which will for the present, at
least, postpone the inevitable battle in this
! country between the elected representa-
| tives of the people and the hereditary
holders of Office. This change of attitude
| of the church party has not been secured
! without the personal intervention of the
king. Until a week ago the bishops, with
! the hesitating and sorewhat~fearful sup
port of the archbishop of Canterbury, were
! intent ON their wrecking policy, but last
weekend the prime minister and DR.. Da-
| wilson were both summoned to Windsor,
and the king induced in both a concliatory
! spirit which before long will result in a
| healthy compromise.
The Compromise will be more apparent
than real, for it will be found that while
| the prime minister insisted the preser-
walton of the essential features of the bill,
the prfmate was forced to abandon some
! privileges ard facilities which the bish-
ops have advocated with great strenuous
ness.
| The kings intervention was directed to-
ward the avoidance of a conflict. between
| the commons and the lords, and while his
majesty expressed no opinion on the bill
| itself, he plainly expressed his desire to
| DR.. Davidson that the church party in the
| lords should make every possible conces-
sion SO as to prevent the threatened attack
| on the upper house.
So skillful a courtier as DR.. Davidson has
| always proved amenable to such advice.
| and that such a compromise l have sug-
| gested is inevitable is confirmed by the fact
| that ardent churchmen have already formed
| a deputation to wait upon the archbishop
| early next month to urge him not to yield
| anything to the government; but that the
| archbishop has already entered upon the
line of retreat is clearly evident from his
speech yesterday if avoids its diplo-
matte phraseoogy and inquiries into its
| inner meaning.
Dozens of stories are going around just
now about the alleged insanity of the
| Crown Prince of Servia but whether thew
| are true or not, it is evident that King
| Peter is not bedded roses in Belgrade.
In addition to being the prisoner of polit-
1 tcal parties, his family affairs are giving
| him not a little trouble. The crown prince
| and his brother have not been able to with
stand certain temptations of their new po-
| sition. To be suddenly transferred from a
| modest villa at Geneva to the konac in
| Belgrade and from being the of an
| insignificant prince to becoming the heirs
| OF kingdom has proved too much for
| them, and they have, especially the crown
| prince, got completely out of hand.
| The first bad symptom was the insubordi-
nation the crown prince began to show Wis
| avis his military governor. He much pre-
| ferred to sWagger in the cafes of Belgrade
| with young cavalry officers of his own age
| to sitting in the konac carrying out his
studies. In fact, he behaved with such in
| science to his military tutor that his father
had to give him ten days arrest. But
| that was not the worst. He got to frequent
| ing Belgrade music halls, and became in
fatuated with Hungarian singing girl APP
| pearing at one of them. He began to spend
large sums Of money on her and generally
| make fool Of himself.
| This came to his fathers ears He took
| prompt and enthusiastically Balkan
| q sent for the chief of
| lice and ordered him to have the lady ex-
| PEELED from Servia within twenty-four
| Semlin between two gendarmes. But next
morning there was great excitement in the
palace. The crown prince was gone.
He was next heard of in Budapesth,
| whittier he had followed his inamorata. He
| remained deaf to all paternal orders by
letter and telegram King Peter saw there
was only one thing to do, and that was to
stop supplies. When the crown princes
money was exhausted he capitulated. and a
| royal chamberlain was sent to escort him
back to the Servian capital.
| AS his uncle, Prince Arsene, has kicked
| up his heels in Belgrade to such an extent
that King Peter had to get him sent off to
the Caucasus to serve In Russian Cos
| sack regiment, the royal family has not
too high a reputation in the Servian capt.
| tai King Peter is a mere puppet in the
hands of the political people who pull the
| strings, so that the chances of the Kara
georgevitch dynasty weathering any great
| crisis are not very great.
| The kings host this week, Mr.. Willie
/ James, is what is known as a good fellow.
| He is enormously rich. His wife, who Is
! the daughter of Sir Charles Forbes, was
| once described by feminine friend fas-
| chatting, fair and fluffy. She is delight
| full amateur actress and she amuses the
| king. That is what his majesty wants-to
be amused. All the women Of his own set,
such as the Duchess of Deyonshire, Lady
| Colebrooke. Mrs. George CORVALLIS West
| Uady Randolph ChurchilD and especially
| Mrs. George Keppel, are full of good sto-
ries and have unbounded humor, which
| they naturally exhibit to the best advan-
| tage before the king Always the list of
| those 1T is proposed to ask to meet the royal
guest is submitted to his majesty before
| the MISUNDERSTANDING commands-are
sent out At Mrs. Willie James the king