The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-03-21
COMPILATION
OF ROYALTY
IS DIFFICULT

PARIS, Feb. 10 Correspondence o
the Associated Press).-The swift
march of history which has reduced
to waste paper value most of the ex
listing works of reference about Eu
ropean state affairs has been too rapit
for the old Almanach de Gotha. II
peace times this compendium of stats
tical data concerning princes and pot
entates and their dominions went tt
press about the end of October, when
It's information was supposed to hold
good for another year, and it gener
ally did, barring some coup d'etat OF
, other in South America.
Now, however, it's issue for 1919
which went to the printers in Decem
Der, is affected in several important
respects by sudden developments in
volving many of the former ruling
houses Of Europe
Amusing to students of Germanys
eastern border policy is the naive pref
atory remark that "the editors regret
that after having prepared three new
articles on Finland, Poland and the
Ukraine, they were obliged to cancel
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 Prus-
sian predominance in Poland and the
Ukraine.
The downfall of the houses of Ho-
henzollern and Hapsburg has not
caused the compilers of the Almanach
much racking of brains. The prefix
EEK is apparently held to be suffi-
Gent to define the present status of
William II and Charles I, although
the former is still credited with his
full fifty-three titles and the latter Is
still styled, among other things, king
of Jerusalem, prince of Trentino and
lord of Trieste
Much the same treatment is given
to the score of German princes and
princelings who abdicated. They ap-
pear in the Almanach as they were
but for the eek"
Democratic infiltration in Germany
has set in from the top, instead of
from the bottom. For although the
administrative branches of the Ger
man government are filled with the
usual array of excellencies, professors
and councillors, yet at the head of the
government stand the names of Ebert.
Scheidemann, Dittman, Landsberg
and Barth. Nobody is supposed to
care about their Christian names.
The German national colors are still
given as black, white and red, and the
war flag still blazons the Prussian
eagle.
This year provisional" govern.
ments abound. There is Poland. de-
scribed in the Almanach as ian an.
cient kingdom" whose chief" is Gen.
Pilsudski. Finland, formerly grand
duchy," has no president. but Gen.
Mannerheim is the present regent"
The Ukraine is described as "a con-
stitutional monarchy on a republican
basis, with General Skoropadsh as
hetman. A footnote, however, ex-
plains that according to news re-
ceived December Is, 1918, the hetman
has abdicated and the power is in the
hands of directorate consisting of
Winnitshensko, Petliura, Schwetz and
Andreievaki."
Russia or, to give it its modern
name, the "Federative Socialistic Re-
public of Russian Soviets," at whose
head Lenine vladimir Oulianoff) and
Trotzky Leon D. Bronstein) figure, is
in a chaotic state as far as its inter-
nal administration is concerned. The
Almanach enumerates the eleven
more or less Independent" states into
which the empire has fallen, as fol-
lows Poland, Lithuania, Baltic