The Washington times., 1917-09-02
MANY MOURN
AS HUSBANDS
FIGHT AGAINST
FLAG OF j. S.
Laws of All Lands Force Citi-
zenship of Spouse on Woman.
Some Examples of Strife of
Loyalty and Affection.
BY MARGERY REX.

Love. follows the flag, and the
march Of General Cupid often
brings as much sorrow and pathos
as the passing of a hostile army
through a buffer state. In all of the
story Of the great war there is no
chapter more pathetic than that
which tells Of the expatriation Of
Gladys Vanderbilt and her trying
position between the fires of hus-
bands love and her affectoon for her
own land and kindred.
There are dozens of American
girls in her plight, forced into the
class of alien enemies by the we'd
ding ring. None of them present
such a striking picture of love and
woe, Of constant, relentless tugging
at the heart strings as does Gladys,
Countess Szechenyi, the little Van
derbilt girl who has been an angel
Of mercy in Austro-H Hungary, and
now finds herself unwittingly ar
rayed against her home land and
family.
Brother Heads U. S. Engineers.
Her husband is stan captain with
General Dsnkl IN that dangerous Ca
hcian region where the Russians
once hoped to make the critical drive
Of the war. Her brother, Col. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, is now in the feld
In IN United States with the Twenty
second Engineers, preparing to seek
the European battlehelds where it is
within the realm Of possibility that
he viii nnd himself directly and per-
sonally opposed to the dashing young
dandy who married his sister. 4
Love and the law are ,inexorable.
When love says follow, the Bible
story islrepeated, and the maid; "Eoeth
whittier thou goeth and thy people
become my peopl-." The law. puts
cold sanction upon, the way. of love
and DEGREES that when a girl takes
the hand OF q stranger his people be-
come her people. and that whittier he
leads she must follow.
So it comes about that Gladys
Vanderbilt following the most an
eient traditions OF love. and the letter
OF the law hnds herself a citizen OF
a land which is in arms against her
own, and hnds the man she loves
sword in hand to meet the kindred
who are coming over the water to
oppose him and his
By the laws of all countries, incIud-
Ing her own. she has become Aus
trian. No matter where her heart
might. have found its national allegi-
ahee before, It must now accept the |
doctrine that Love follows the Flag. |
Kaiser Allowed Marriages.
Bismarck. the Iron Chancellor, put |
the, thought into concrete form when |
he, issued an order that no German |
diplomat in the service OF his country |
might marry a foreigner. The order |
fell into disregard when the Kaiser
took the reins completely in his own |
hands until shortly before the Euro |
pean war, when 1t was revived. In |
the meantime there had crept into |
the German and Austrian diplomatic |
society q number OF brilliant Ameri-
can women, who are now under the /
ban Of the old military law, and who /
are alien enemies OF their native land /
without being trusted friends OF the
one 10 WHICH Suplu ltu lneEn-
Thus Il was that Lillian May Lang /
ham, a beauty OF Louisville, KY, came
to be the bride Of the late ambassador
to Washington, Speck Won Sternburg,
and likewise through the hiatus there
came to Count Johann Heinrich Won
Bernstorff, his successor in this coun-
try. Mfss Jeanne Luckmeyer, one Of
the fairest OF the daughters OF New
York. And Miss Constance Hoyt was
another Of the rich Americans who
went to the diplomatic corps OF Ger
many through her wedding Baron
Won Stumm-
Damned q Vienna Court.
Under the rules OF the Austrian
court, no person could be presented
unless eight generations OF nobility
could be shown as q condition prece-
dent Coming from America, where
!