Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-16
Yielded to Foreigners, Lot
Of Loyal americans
PROF. n Bitter as
Hemlock.

LONDON, September Il American
women who have cen cxpatriated
through their marriage to foreigners
have pathetic role. indeed. TO play
during these days that try the souls
of humankind. Repatriation, always
bitter TO the patriot. becomes an over
whelminC burden to the American III
these times when their country. tho
noblest OF them all. is about TO strike
the most tremendous and majestic blow
ever struck by a nation at war. Even
to I've eSpatriatcd to friendly ally
may we'll prove ranking to an Amer1-
patriotic pride, and to he marooned
from the civilized world In the ranks
Of our enemy is proving AS bitter as
hemlock to numbers OF true Americans
at heart. Among these the moi - poig-
nant sufferers are the erstwhile Ameri-
can girls. now the wives OF enemy
most to a woman, identified themselves
with the Red Cross of their husbands
countries. They feel that. at least In
this one respect. they may conscicn-
tiouSly quiet their broken hearts with
the thought that they do work when
the great United States in Its honest
myrlads of hearts will heartily ap-
prove.
UNWITTINGLY ARRIVED
AGAINST HOME AND FAMILY
Among the more prominent of those
who suffer thus appears the former
Gladys Vanderbilt, who has h,cn an
angel OF mercy in Austria Hungary
and who now finds herself unwittingly
arrayed against her home land and
family.
Her husband is a staff captain with
General Dankl in that dangerous Ga
lician region where the Russians once
hoped to make the critical drive Of the
war. Her brother. Colonel Cornelius
Vanderbilt. is now in the field in the
United States with the Twenty second
Engineers, preparing to seek the Flu
ropcan battlefields where 1t is within
tho realm of possibility that he will
find himself directly and personally
opposed to the dashing young man
who married his sister.
SO there is sad young woman over
in the far land, laboring for the Red
Cross. the wounded and for a cause
that is not that of her family and the
friends of her childhood. Indeed, it
was the death OF her own brother, AL
fred G. Vanderbilt that had as much
TO do with moulding American sen;i-
mcnt against the Teutonic powers as
any one incident of the war; What
ever may be the fact of the real cause
OF the underlying break. the public
mind holds most prominently the sink
ing OF the Lusitania rs an item OF re-
sentiment. and the most prominent vic
tim Of that ocean disaster was her
own brother, sent to watery grav,
by a torpedo that came from n U-hoat.
One brother dead as a noncombatant
victim OF war. another in khaki ready
to fight. couple OF nephews wear
ing the uniform OF America and scores
of relatives and friends either in the
ranks or in the councils OF the repub-
lie. the position of this unfortunate
young woman is indeed ono OF thu
most pathetic stories of the whole
cataclysm that is shaking tho world.
While she Is by reason Of these queer
interna ,ional complications the most
striking figure i'm the marital horrors
of Cupid she does not stand alone \
score of titled women. Il few hundreds
without titles bat still women with
hearts and loves. are in the same boat.
ADOPTED COUNTRIES
DO NOT TRUST THEM
And tie most pitiful phase OF tho
whole situation is that their adopted
countries do not trust them, in spite
Of amy sacrifice they may make. Study
ing the records of ages. one finds that
inc and again some woman Of him
place ana mind has cast 10 the winds
love. personal wishes and even life
itself to serve her own land
There Is higher law that Is no.
defined that says to every man and
every woman that personal ties are
secondary 10 the grand duty of pa
triotism. and It is this higher law
that makes tho officials Of the central
military powers fear and distrust any
wife whose land IN not thotr sown