The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-11-30
GERMAN PRINCE
OVER HOLLAND
Such is a Possibility if Queen Wilhel.
nina and Her Little Daughter
@ Should Die.

9ress)-Only two lives, those Of ths
reigning Queen and of her seven.
year-old daughter, Princess Julian
bar the way in the natural order OF
things to the accession to the throne
Of the Netherlands of German
prince. It is true that, so far as
health and age are concerned, those
lives may be described as 'first class,
but the potential slenderness of the
thread was illustrated not long ago
in the Hague woods, where the royal
automobile carrying Queen Wilhelmi-
ma and the little Princess was the
victim of collision that might under
less fortunate circumstances, have cost
the lives of both.
The question Of the succession gave
Dutchmen some concern before the
war, and much more now. Several
well known public men have drawn
public attention to the matter in the
last few days, and what looks like
strong agitation, enjoying vide
spread sympathy, has been started for
a revision of the Constitution declar-
ing null and void all potential rights
Of succession of foreign princes, leav-
ing the choice of q new sovereign, in
such an unhoped-for and unexpected
circumstances as the failure of all di-
rect heirs to the throne, entirely to
the States General or Parliment of |
the country. For every Dutchman,
practically without exception, whatever
oe his sympathies in the present war,
would regard the accession of Ger
nan prince as calamity, threaten
ng the so dearly-cherished independ-
.nce Of the nation. u. yetia,5 i
In the House of Orange, Holland is
'lessed with dynasty bound to Hol-
and and Holland alone by such strong
les that no one at home or abroad
would dream Of suggesting that the
ouncil chambers of the Crown are
ccessible to other than purely Dutch
interests. But if that house, were
eft without living issue, the next
laimants to the throne would be
ound among the collateral princely
ouses of Saxe-Weimar and Reuss-
lostritz, followed or accompanied
v those of Saxe-Mainingen, Hohen-
ollern, another branch of Reuss-
-ostritz, Schleswig- -Holstein, Norway,
ahcumburg-Lippe, Sweden and Wied
-one and all equally foreign to the
Netherlands. ,., ,.mHa
Professor j. A. Van Hamel, a dis ]
lnguished authority on law, declares
the Amsterdam. "His game Of in
,rests with German royal relations
n foreign thrones must teach US that
mall powers should beware if they
0 not desire to see, in their highest
overnment circles, foreign aims that
light be pernicious to them put in
lace of their national interests. Is
le fact sufficiently reckoncd, with
nat, according to the present consti- :
1tional regulation of the succession {
} the throne, the successive princes {
allied to the throne after Prin- .
sss Juliana are all of the Ger {
ian army, naturally all attached =.
cart and soul and bound to the Ger !
ian policy? Monarchical coupl- S
lg Of this country to another, by a
rince who could hardly be anything t
ut an imperial prince-envoy ,and who
dmonished from abroad to bear
imself like good German, of
HON, moreover, nothing is known
ere save that he has not the slight I
st relations with this country, would +,
e very serious matter for the COM /
,g times" 5@ t-.}'f1 X
As regards the exact form that the II
roposed constitutional revision should
ike, Prof. D. P. D. Fabius, yet ano- i
her writer on the subject, argues in {
avor of simply putting ali possible !
laipants besides Princess Juliana I
! no way 70 any houses Or person I