Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-09
EUROPEAN SOCIETY
 IS GROWING LIVELY ENGAGEMENT OF PRINCESS VIC. TORIA LOUISE RELIEVES
 QUEEN MARY. Feared That Marriage Would De Performed for Several Political
 Reasons.
(By Herbert Temple.)

London, March S.-The engagement of the kaiser's only daughter, Princess Victoria Louise, to the son of the duke of Cumberland came as a great reliei to Queen Mary, who has always dread ed that marriage should be arranged for political reasons between the princess and the prince of Wales.
 Typically English as the queen ie she would prefer her oldest son tc marry an English girl if there were one of equal rank to be found within this country, but as this is not the case, she knows of course that the prince of Wales will eventually have to marry some foreign princess.
 She has become quite resigned te this idea, but she still draws the lint on German prncesses, and hopes that the future king of England will event. ually marry one of the czar's young daughters. On this point, however she meets with strong opposition from Queen Alexandra. who main- tains that it would fatal to the best interests of coming royal generations to allow a union of two young people who are not only as closely related az are the prince of Wales and a daugh ter of the czar, but whose fathers art exact doubles of one another physical. ly as we'll as mentally, and both yer! far from being robust. Queen Alex. andra also fears that her young Rus. sian grand-nieces may have inherited a strain of the melancholy of their beautiful and lovely mother.
 As the young prince of Wales is O very shy and rather effeminate dis position Queen Alexandra maintains that he proper wife for him must be strong, vivacious and spirited prin. cess and her favorite candidate is tho oldest daughter of the king and queen of Italy, in whose veins flows the viz orous and healthy blood of the Monte negrin princes who, although now O. royal rank, are only few generations removed from strong peasant ances tors
 Queen Mary's principle objection tC the Italian princess favored by Queer Alexandra is that England's future queen ought to be Protestant b.! birth.
 That Germans in London are going to celebrate the kaiser's jubilee ir true Teutonic manner goes without saying, of course, for Germans remain loyal to their country and it's rulers all the world over, but it is rathe, surprising to hear that the people O London who live in continuous fear O i German invasions have definitely de cided to have special London festi
 val on the twenty-flfth anniversary O
 Emperor Williams accession to th' throne.
 An Anglo-German exhibition is te c9en at the Crystal palace in the be- ginning of May, and here the great festival is scheduled to take place or
 June 15tl in the presence of Kim George and Queen Mary possibly ac companied by the king and queen Ot Denmark. who at that time will bt their guests at Buckingham palace. There is every indication that thi. important move toward strengthening Anglo German friendship will be g great success. Among those who arc taking a close and active interest ir the scheme are the duke of Argyll the earl of Lonsdale, and the earl O. Plymouth. It is the suggestion of the duke of Argyll that the proect is be- ing carried through without asking for the support of the British and | German governments.
 | The organizing committee feels that nothing can tend to bring Great Britain and Germany more closely to- gether than an exhibition showing the wide range of trades and manufac- lures in which the two countries are mutually helpful. and also giving prominence to those numerous branches of art in which they can learn from one another.
 While we are doing everything to encourage eGrman visitors to this country, when they arrive here in the conventional way we are equally de- termined to discourage any attempts of dropping down upon us from the air and for many months English gun manufacturers have been at work de- signing a gun that will bring down Zeppelins when the bill authorizing firing on unannounced airships flying above this tight little island becomes law.
 A suitable gun has now been in- I e.