Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-05
DEVELOPMENT OF
HISTORY KEEPS !;
!. EDITORS BUSY
Rapid Events in Europe
Make Recent Editions
Useless.

Paris, Feb. 10.-(Correspondence
OF the Associated .Press)-The swift
7 march of history which has reduced
70 waste paper value most Of the ex-
lsting works OF reference about Eu-
ropean state affairs. has been too
rapid for the old Almanach de Gotha.
In peace times. this compendium OF
statistical data concerning princes
ana potentates and their dominions
went to press about the end Of Octo-
Der, when its information was sup
posed to hold good for another year,
coup d'etat or other'in South America.
Now, however. its issue for 1919.
which went to the printers in Decem-
Der, is affected in several important
respects by sudden developments in
volving man of the former ruling
houses Of Europe.
Amusing to students Of Germany's
eastern border policy is the native
predatory remark that "the editors re-
greet that after having prepared three
new articles on Finland. Poland and
h Ukraine. they were obliged to can
eel all three owing to the change in
the course Of events"
In other words. Prince Frederick
Charles of Hesse, brother-in-law of
the former German emperor, will
never seat himself upon the throne
Of Finland. and there is to be no
Prussian predominance in Poland and
the Ukraine.
The downfall Of the houses of Hob
enzollern and. Hapsburg has not
caused the compilers Of the Almanach
much Hracking of brains. The prefix
'ex' is apparently held to be suffi-
cient to define the present status of
William II. and Charles L., although
the former is still credited with his
full So titles and the latter is still
styled among other things King of
Jerusalem. Prince Of the Trentine
= and Lord Trieste"
n. Much the same treatment is given
: to the score Of German princes and
= ~princelings who abdicated. ! They
appear in the almanac as they were
4, but for the Eek"
Democratic infiltration in Germany
has set in from the top. instead OF
from the bottom. For although the
man government are filled with the
z usual array of excellencies. profess
sors and councillors, vet at the head
Z Of that government stand the names
Of Ebert, Scheidemann, Dittman
Landsberg and Barth. Nobody is
supposed to are about their Chris
tian anne -
The German national colors are still
,iven as black. white and red, and the
war flag still blazons the Prussiar
ogle.
! This year, provisional govern.
nents abound. There is Poland, de-
scribed in the almanac al IAN ancient
Kingdom" whose chief is Genera
Pilsudski. Finland. formerly grant
eral Mannerheim is the present IRE
gent"
The Ukraine is described as "a con,
stitutional monarchy on a republican
basis" with General Skovopadski q
Hetman.- "A footnote. however, e4
: ceIved December 49, 1918, the, Het
nan has abdicated and the power !
in the hands of a directorate consist
/ ing of Winnitshenko. Petliura
t SchwetzF and SAndreievaki."
Russia, or. to give it it's moder,
name, the "Federative Socialistic Re
public of Russian soviets:" at who's
Trotzky (Leon D. Bronstein) figure
is in a chaotic state as far as its in
ternal administration, is concerned
Y The Almanach enumerates the clever
z; more or less Independent states int
which the empire has fallen, as fol
lows: Poland, Lithuania,. Balti
s states (Courland, Livonia. Esthonia)
n pied by Roumania); Georgia, North
Il ern Caucasus, Territory Of the Do,
!. and Territory Of Astrakhan: Turke
4 stan. Siberia.
\ Vanished is the pomp and panopl
of the sonorous a%soundinE names Q
u the Russian ~aritBocracy, that one
u filled the higher administrative post
in the old empire. The seven mem
bers Of the Council of Commisarie
Of the People, are Immediately fol
: lowed by the dignitaries of the Gree
Z Catholic church. IT there are an
excellencies or other functionaries Q
officials in present day Russia, tn
i. Almanach does not give them.
AS for the diplomatic corps a
y Petrograd, all the ambassadors an
y ministers, except n from Spain
are significantly designated as "ah
1, sent"
One curiosity is that Albania share
Z with San Marine the distinction Q
Il having a government indicated onl
\ by blanks.
IL =.