The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-22

| F.ERDIN ANI
SUCCEED
4 ny LA ,1Anau1sE DE ToNTENoY.
/ n Hohenzollern dynasty on the
sIA throne OF Rumania Is regarded
here in America as reasonably
assured. II by no means follows thal
Prince Ferdinand Will be permitted &c
succeed to the crown on his uncle.
death. King Charles and his people
arc entirely at variance on the SUB,
j ject OF Rumania's recently concluded
.|alliance with Turkey, which he has
contracted in Difference TO the wishes
of the German and Austrian govern,
i ments. Belonging to the so-calletl
i Orthodox Rite. or Greek Church. Their
3isXnpathies would be with their CO.
IreligionIsts in Servia, Bulgaria. Monte
i negro, Greece and Russia. rather than
with the Turks. in any renewal of the
conflict between the Crescent and the
Cross: while In the event OF the Triple
Alliance embarking upon war with
manlans would certainly throw IN
ltheir lot with the Car, rather than
with Francis Joscph's Dual Empire.
which they hate BY ~ reason Enn,a Of th ln
\
j Transylvania, who have renamed SUD-
1 ject to Magyar rule.
II the Rumanians have permitted
i King Charles TO enter into compacts
\ with Turkey. and with the Triple Al
4 lance. providing for united action In
/ the event of war. 1t Is because they
are aware that he Is in such an ex.
1 tremely frail condition of health thar
for more than a few months. and.
thoroughly approaching oil that he
has done for the development and
| prosperity of the kingdom since he
iago. they do not wish to sadden the
4 eventide of his reign by repudiating
his policy, Indeed. it Is considera-
! lions Of gratitude and sympathy alone
/ Ing at present the understanding
4 which he has established with Tur-
key and the Triple Alliance,
His lieges will have no such COM
4 Prince Ferdinand. and when his uncle
/ dies he will be confronted by the
| alternative Of having to waive his
rights to the throne in favor Of his Is,
eldest SON. Prince Charles. OF else WI
the foreign relations, of the country
in accordance with the will and the
Interests of his peoples rather than
in accordance with the views of his
Hohenzollern relatives at Berlin.
have had to find with their sovereign
Is that although he has been near e. !,
half a century in Rumania; he has
always remained Hohenzollern. ana a1o
| four years after his accession. he tel.
graphed to old King William OF
Prussia, although ! am now I prin !;
OF Rumania. ! remain, and shall al
It is only in the event Of war r !, N
the Southeast Of Europe while King
Charles remains alive that his people
Wilt break with him IN the mater
mtted to invade Bulgaria the very
moment that the latter's army crosses
the Turkish frontier into Macedonia.
but when he gives the order 70 n ms
full whether his commands VIII pc
obeyed. Sooner than comply with his
4 directions In the matter. his troops
and his people would part company
with him. And that is why IT would
be unwlse to attach too great an I'M
poytance to his aftlliations with the
/ Sublime Porte and with the Triple
4 Alliance.
Baron Rosen's many friends here N
A America will be glad to hear that
J. There is a prospectsof his remaining
4 at Washington for some time longer e
!. expectations that he would be trans rams,
! ferred to Vienna have not materiallzed'
I and It is Nicholas Won Giers. hitherto
\ minister at Brussels. VINO mas Just
4 been gaZetted to succeed Prlnce -
j Urussoff as Ambassador in the Austrian
a capital.
Had Izwolski remained in office as
. Foreign Minister, the appointment
j for Izwolski placed 50 many 2 bstacles
I in the way OF the promotion Of Won
Glers, that it was only on the nomina-
tion Of Sergius Sassenoff to take
aHairs at st. Petersburg, that Won
n Giers was able to obtain the Austrian
2 Emission.
Nicholas Won Giers Is the eldest son
Of the late Nicholas Won Giiers, VINO
Minister Of Alexander ss III succeeding
Prince Gortchakors In that post, and !, I!
who was the son set
, Russian. The Foreign Minister had 9
!: been brought up bys7his mother as a
member q her church, that Is to +,
FAY TIE orthGdox Rte, instead h q, II =
and his sons in turn also belong to
the state church OF Russia. s
Nicholas Won Oilers, the new ambas.
sador at Vienna, Is tlfty-siX years o.
Z Rerne, Berlin and Paris, as secretary
l From the French capital, where he
snent no less than Shfteen years. and
4 principal factors In bringing about
{ the Franco Russian alliance. he was
. promoted some five or six years ago
. to tho post OF minister at Brussels
He is married to a relative OF his
I predecessor at Vienna, namely to
Y a Princess urussoff. Ills younger
!, lbrother Michael, who spent some time
Mt Pekin and at Toxic Is now minister
a at Buclla rest. WI,
Tho appointment az de Giers re-
!. callsHlthe remark made by Alexander
n II. concerning his father, namely, that
8liit was upon men of his class that he
could dspard n.9st Ter e .sss sel 10y.