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time of the Crusades, Jerusalem is now forever
delivered from Moslem domination
In sense Jerusalem is the religious capital OF
the world. It is holy city for Jew. Christian and
MOSem. All three there observe the spring feSti-
val in different ways with different ritual but all
with elaborate religious ceremonial. No other
place is equally holy to so many classes of re-
igious belief.
To the Jews the celebration of the Passover this
year will be of significance as profound as the OBJ
Servance of Easter to the Christians. With the
restoration of Zion in sight new meaning will be
given to the closing benedictiOn of the ceremony
which prays for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple
and the restoration of the ancient rites and sacr-
fees
The great powers of the world may differ widely
on many questions that arise in the reshaping OF
the world after the World war, but one sub
ject they seem practically agreed They are
apparently committed to the transformation of
Palestine from an Ottoman province to autOnO-
nous Jewish. state under allied protection. Just
what form that state shall take appears to be still
question more or less open.
Even the Jews themselves are not at all of one
mind this question. The political views and
UNCONVENTIONAL prejudices of various factions of
the Hebrew widely at variance, in fact,
that it has even been suggested that it might be
well to establish monarchial form of government
at Jerusalem under the scepter of some European
dynasty.
This proposition appears to be entirely imprac-
ticabie-and for many reasons Jews have been
nation which has sheltered them. For example,
the Jews of America would have patience with
king, with a King Of Jerusalem. Again,
King of Jerusalem, in order to be in complete SYM
pathy with his people, would have to be of the
blood and religion And there is no such prince in
Europe; every is Christian MOSlem.
All of which brings to the strange and inter
esting fact that there is already King of Jerusa-
Ien-several of them, in fact. This is to say that
at least one regning sovereign of Europe, AlfOnzO
XIII Of Spain, claims the title of King Of Jerusa-
lem, Through inheritance from remote ages. Two
other reigning mOnarchS, George of Great Brit
ain and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, no longer
include it in the official list of their titles The
dethroned emperor Charles of tria-Hungary,
still prides himself upon it's possession. Nobody
seems to know whether the former Kaiser of Ger
many still clings this title, which he boldly
sumed at the time of his theatrical entry into
Jerusalem in 1898.
In the case of Alfonzo and Charles the claim to
the title of King of Jerusalem dates from the
CrusadeS writes Frederick Cunliffe-Owen in Mum
sey's Magazine. Godfrey de Bouillon, Duke of
Lorraine leader of the first of those wonderful
military pilgrima ges to the Holy Land, pro
claimed King of Jerusalem by his victorious army
after the capture OF the ancient Hebrew capital.
It win be recalled that he refused to be crowned
with diadeni of gold, declaring that where the
Founder of Christianity had worn a crown of
thorns it not meet that OF His followers
sho1ld don circlet of precious metals and jewels,
or even wear the laurels of victor. Consequently
EMMY crowned King of Jerusalem with of
thOrns.
On Godfrey's DEATH in HOO, he succeeded
on the throne by his brother Baldwin, and from
that time forth all the Dukes of Lorraine were
also tituar Kings of Jerusalem until their dynasty
became merged in the house of HapSburg, through
the marriage of Francis OF Lorraine TO the En-
press Maria Theresa. daughter of Charles VI, last
of the German emperors of the direct mare line
of Hapsburg. This gave the Austrian rulers
right to style themselves with the high-sounding
but empty title.
They also had another claim to it. Indeed, they
had used it for centuries before Maria Theresa's
marriage TO Francis of Lorraine. Away back in
1929 Frederick II of the house of Hohenstaufen,
King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor, caused
himself to be crowned at Jerusalem king of the
Holy City. He claimed this dignity, not only be-
cause ne had reconquered the city from the Sara
Gems who had held it since 1857, but also as the
husband OF John OF Brienne's daughter and heir
ess Yolande John OF Brienne, who was one OF