The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
Nicaraguan Situation Is Being
Followed Very Closely in
the German Capital.
GERMANY'S INTERESTS ARE
HEAVY in THAT REGION
While Monroe Doctrine Has
Never Been Accepted, Kaiser
Looks to L. $. to Keep Order.
BY MALCOLM CLARK
.ial cable to The Tribune.

special tIblc TO The Tribune.
BERLIN, Dec. a--For the moment
the kaiser'S attention is of Great
Britain and is fixed ON America. Not
even in the United States is the Nicnra-
guam situation followed so closely us 1t
is today in Berlin. Upon the success
of The Washington government in dea /
ing with Iclaya Will depend in 10 small
measure Germanv's future South Amer
icaU policy. 1t would perhaps be 20.
ing too far TO say the kaiser would
welcome the failure of the United States
10 restore order i'm Central America, but
that his majesty would welcome con
dItion which would Justify German in
tcrVeutIor. can be said. Germany has
many commercial interests III Central
and South America which Suffer from
the turmoil and uncertainty existing in
Lain Amcrca. The kaiser has for
years encouraged not only German com
morclaI enterprises. but German lmmi-
grafton 10 those ports. In Brazil, cspc.
calIy, II has been his ambition To cstab-
ish II New Germany aud with some
success, for some of the Brazilian prov.
inccs are pretty effectively Germanizcd
While the Monroe Doctrine has never
been accepted by this country it has
been tacitlv observed. because it has
not seemed wise 10 antagonizc the Unit.
cd States. bur even this tacit recog.
milton has been with the understanding
that the United STATES. must as part
Of the Monroe Doctrine. preserve order
among her protegcs and assure reason.
able protection to German interests
II is felt here. if Nicaragua is dealt
with stcrnly, 1T will have a good effect
all through Latin America, but if half
way measures are taken. the example of
Nicaragua may be followed by other
on m Yt IL q a.
which Will warrant German action
despite the Monroe Doctrine, and give
Germany foothold III South America
Society Problem Settled
In q court so bound by etiquette as
tDal OF the German kaiser, questions of
precedence are bound to arise which
give the court marshal MANY an nm.
happy quarter Of an hour. An interest.
ing incident occurred in connection with
the recent visit OF tho Austrian Arch.
duke Ferdinand, which illustrates this
fact.
IT win be remembered that the
Princess Hobenberg. the Archduke Fer.
dlnand morganatic wife, has recently
peen raised TO the rank of duchess by
The Emperor Franz Josef. but that she
s,lIl RANKS al The Vienna court behind
the arghduchesscs, being, In fact,
barred from the Austrian succession.
though she may become queen of HIM.
gary. But it is the court etiquette of
the guest 8 country which rules in such
cases, and thus the court marshal was
faced with the portentous problem of
how, without rudcness. to place the
au~ust visitor at table without compro-
missing the rightful precedence ,of the
prlncesses. of the Berlin court. The
court marshal not without headache
perhaps, arrived at an ingenious soIn-
ton of the difficulty. When the i'm
peral party entered the dining room
IN the Neues palace they found ar.
ranged. not the usual single long table.
but several small ones. At one of these
the Princess lIoheubcrg sat between The
kaiser and the German crown prince
while The archduko, ber husband. sat
at second table between the empress
and the crown princess So everyone
smiled. and some, perhaps. reflected how
good II would he If all difficult Euro
pean problems could be settled so easily.
The announcement that Princes;
karoIa Fedora Of SAKE Mciningcn has
been betrothed To the Young Grand
Duke of SAKE Weimar has aroused GREAT
interest. rs the grand duke was rc-