The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1919-03-05
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We Mstory which has reduced to wastt
AFnc zSsr value most of the existing
4ks of reference about European
Ke affairs, has been too rapid fo
ay' BID Almanach de Gotha. In peac,
*, this compendium of Statistical
7oolty concerning princes and poten
H2&s and their dominions went tc
i about the end of October, wher
now information was supposed to hole
S@ for another year, and it general,
4id, barring some coup d etat or
! Eer in South America.
1ow, however, its issue for 1919,
% III Heh went to the printers in Decem-
is affected In several important
Sybects by sudden developments in
int YS)sing many of the former ruling
tting Hses Of Europe
amusing to students of Geramny's
SStern border policy is the naive
+, Srafatory remark that ''the editors
Aaln fspret that after having prepared
L1dFE 8HxPe new dTIlClSS OH L
anca Sana the Ukrains, they were obliged to
SaYcel all three owing to the change
in8the course of events"
IL, in other words, Prince Frederick
3Arles of Hesse, brother-in-law of
EfTN former German emperor, will
neser seat himself upon the throne
mas Wf Finland, and there is to be no
the EUfedominance in Poland and the
Ukraine.
fhe downfall of the houses of
Hahenzollern and Hapsburg has not
Saused the compiers of the Alman-
aeh much racking of brains. The
pgefix Tex" is apparently held to be
ssufcient to define the present status
M William II and Charles |, al
tHough tire former is still credited
With his full So titles and the latter
sSstill styled among other things
ling of Jerusalem, Prince of the
fentno and Lord of Triests,'
Much the same treatment is given
pxnceings who abdicated. They ap-
~ RAar in the almanac as they were
hut for the TEX"
Democratic infiltration in Germany
has set in from the top, instead Of
ffpm the bottom. For although the
administrative branches of the Ger
ltan government are filled with the
pcg. sual array of excellencies, professors
aAd councillors, yet at the head of
that government stand the names of
bert, Scheidemann, Dittmann, Land
n 8kerg and Barth Nobody is suppos-
iii W to care about their Christian
7Ames.
W The German national colors are
S0|d Sill given as black, white and red,
sbd the war flag still blazons the
russian eagle
@ This year, provisional govern
tents abound There is Poland, de-
mr.. &ribed in the almanac as ian ancient
Nngdom," whose "chief" is General
OIL lsudsk. Finland, formerly grand
uehy", has no president but General
annerheim is the present regent.
The Ukraine is described as "a con-
Il tutional monarchy on republican
6hsis," with General Skoropadski as
( 8etman. A foootnote, however, ex-
lains that according to news re-
seal! eived Dec. Is, 1918, the Hetman has
bdicated and the power is in the
lands of directorate consisting of
kinnitshenko, Petliura, Schwetz and
Andreevaki."
Russia, or, to give it its modern
hame, the "Federative Socialistic Re-
public of Russian Soviets," at whose
bead Lenine (Vladimir Oulianotf) and
rotzky (Leon D. Bronstein) figure,
Us in chaotic state as far as its in
ernal administration is concerned.
he Almanach enumerates the eleven
more or less independent" states in
70 which the sempire has fallen, as
olows: Poland; Lithuania; Baltic
tates (Courland, Lvonia, Esthonia(;
M Finland; Ukraine; Bessarabia (Occu-
= pied by Roumania); Georgia; North
\, ,ern Caucasus; Territory Of the Don
and territory of Astrakhan; Thrkes-
: tan; Siberia.
W Vanished is the pomp and panoply
@ Of the sonorous sounding names Of
@# the Russian aristocracy that once fill
led the higher administrative posts
in the old empire. The seven mem
# bers of the Council Of Commissaries
! of the People" are Immediately fol-
! lowed by the dignitaries of the Greek
Catholic church If there are any ex-
@ cellencies or other functionaries of
M officials in present day Russia, the
Almanach does not give them;
As for the diplomatic corps at Pet
rograd. ill the ambassadors and min
istefs, except one from Spain are
I significantly designated as absent.
One curiosity is that Albania
i shares with San Marino the distinc-
tion Of having government indi~
Gated only by blanks,