The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-13
PAR|SIANSPAY
HONOR TO QUEEN
OF RUMAN|ANS
Flowers Foretaste Of Peace,
She Asserts,
By II. Wiekham Steed.

mere lNI NblUt Nd1Nt Nh''' - "''"f
a concOursc OF spectators 10 wait Tor
a chance of seeing and cheering her
whenever she goes out. To draw the
conclusion that Paris loves queen
because she IS queen might be
erroneous. II is rather that Paris
admifes a plucky woman and that its
admiration does not decrease when
that woman happens TO be beautiful
ard happens also 10 he queen gal
liant and unfortunate and OF an allied
country.
Yesterday before the luncheon
given ~ her honor at the Elysce
President Pomcarc paid to the queen
of Rumania one OF those delicate
compliments which often are the es-
senre Of true sta,esmanship. lie in
vi,ed her majesty TO inspect with him
the guard OF honor drawn mp for her
reception and 10 take rs salute. II
iS said that this is the first time any
woman has alone and ~ her own
right reviewed company ot French
soldiers Wh.iher or not this IS his
tnrically accurate, Yesterdays cefe-
mony was certainly picturesque
Foretaste of Peace.
Soon alter returning from lunch
con. her majesty granted me a lengthy
audience. She received me IN the
drawing room OF the Hotel Ritz, TO
which the proiuSion OF flowers tina,
had been sent her from every quarter
and not the least from the enthuS-
iasrcally loyal Rumanian colony IN
Paris had given striking likene"
10 a first class florists establishment
you see all these flowers" She
said. with a circular gesture, they
are almost overwhelming, but when
one has seen no flowers for so long
and ones thoughts have been busy
with things less beautiful, tins return
10 a world oi flowers seems like a
ioretaste ~ peace and happy omen
Tor the iuimc We have been through
hard time; In Rumania but our peo-
ple really have been splendid. You
know how they fought You cannot
know how they suffered hearing pa
tlcntly the worst of pr,yaiions and
never losing il,l that II they set
their teeth and did not despair,
neither the Germans nor bolShcyiSts
nor ,Bulgars nor Turks nor Magayrs
would ever prevail against the allies
and our oWu irm will TO achieve ma
ilonal unity
"tIaS Rumauia been much deya'-
iated:" asked Did the Germans
,,magc Castle Pclc,h, where King
Carol and Queen Carmen sylvia used
TO spend the summer months or
Peliser. where your majesty lived as
crown princess"
Country Devastated.
In some parts OF the country there
has been considerable devasta,ions,
but Pelssh and Peliser still are there"
answered the queen What memories
those names revive. You know King
Carol aud the old queen and my hus-
band As a Young woman ! admit |
found some difficulty in getting on
with King Carol | did not under
stand hi, IDEAS for the development
at the country But aiterward |
came TO see what he was working for
and took a great interest IN his pub
lie work We became colabOtatorS,
and | admired him greatly. But when
the war broke out we ielt and saw
differently. lie not unnaturally
though, Germany and Austria were
bound TO win outright. For Queer
Carlen SYLVIA it was almost an article
of religious faith that Germany was
hound to he 'uher allies IN der welt.
But my heart was with the allic'
from the beginning, just as the hear
oi Our people was with them.
don't know why but | have Away
felt at one with our people and il
have acquired any popularity or beer
able 10 render them any services, i
IS through no merit OF my own, io
IT came from the spontaneous sen,
Of unity with and love for them"
"Your majesty confirms the viev
OF French and American philoSo
pher who used to maintain that thos
who do good from love OF good hav
no special merit and tha. the reall
pure are those Qul fent lie bien ei
aimant 10 MALI | observed,
ayes, that is probably true, said tn
queen.
1T may also be that the war Stirret
all OF the old soldiers blood IN III
and made ME feel now Is the time 4
play the woman Times becam
easier after the first battle of tn
Marne. King Carol and Queen Car
men Sylvia understood at once tina
thete would he. no crushing German
victory. King Carol said it is no
going to be another eighteen seventy
but want TO see the end OF IT, but i
was not to be -
Old King Foressw.
"Ye,, madam" interrupted, "KinJ
Carol had long feared an ou,breaI
of war. In September OF 1911, whe,
| last saw him a, peleSh, his partin
words were, England has fine lit
lie army She has no field arm,
She mus, make field army. IN
peace, OF Europe may depend upo
it,"
That is quite true, returned III
queen, King Carol ioresaw the wa
and feared it, but when il came h
would have wished Rumania to sur
port the German cause. lie was
dear old man and i, is perhaps a
well that he did not live to see III
end.
"Now we ARE confronted with
whole set OF new problems. There
the Agrarian question, about which