The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-27
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trade has suffered more from post war conditions than the fine old, very exclusive trade of kingship. 4.
 There Is saying in one Of Dis raeli's novels that very soon Flu rope Twill be all republican or all Cossack." Certainly the. first part of the prophecy has begun to look less extravagant than it did when the lines were first penned.
 When he wrote that, Disraieli could hardly have anticipated that a day would arrive when there would be fifteen republics in Europe and every prospect of two more happening.
 Yet at the moment the most popu- lar idea throughout Europe Is Repub- licanism. Even Great Britain, with all It's constitutional safeguards, IS not absolutely free from this great democratic movement
 Italy and Britain Only
 Italy Is the only other big Euro pean nation to adhere to the old fashioned policy of the hereditary rights of kings. For many months that was in jeopardy until the Fas- cisti arose and planted King Elm manuel more firmly on his throne.
 When the eighteenth century opened there was only one republic in Europe-the tiny confederation or the Helvetic League which governed Switzerland. When the nineteenth century opened France had become a republic, and there were several others-the Parthenopean Republic, the Batavian Republic, the Cisalpine Republic, and so forth. They did not however, survive the fall of their creators.
 When the twentieth century opened there were only two republics in Eu- rope-France and Switzerland. San Marine and Andorra cannot be in- cluded because they were too small and had no foreign policy and no frontiers to guard. Today there are fifteen republics, as follows
 France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Czecho-Slovakio, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Portugal, The Ukraine Switzerland, Albania. Esthonia, Lat val and Finland. ..... ..
 This number could be increased, but to avoid duplication l have not included any of the subsidiary re- publics, such as Baden, Bavaria and other German states which are really mart of the big Germanic Republic. A map of Europe, colored accord ing to the kingdoms and republics in 1900 and 1922, would show a very wonderful change in tint. These fif- teen republics occupy an area or 2,SO3 ,OOO square miles, while the total area of Europe up to the Ural River is only 3,6S7,Oo0 square miles.
 The Republics, therefore, have two thirds of the soil of Europe, and they have population of 2S3,759,OOO. In both these calculations, from the latest figures in the Statesmen Year Book" none of the possessions of Russia or the other republics out side Europe has been included the area is European only.
 All Minor Powers
 When we look at the nlonarchies remaining there is notable con trast. With the exception of Great Britain and Italy, there is no great power among the kingdoms. Spain has been living on her past so long that she Is expected to join the ranks of the republicans at any moment. In the Balkans there is a group of more or less solidly established little kingdoms, with Greece at the head apparently we'll on the way toward a republican regime. gHaEt
 All the other kingdoms are thrust into the northern quarter of Flu. rope, and they are all small powers --so small that only one of them was able to take part in the Great War. They are: Belgium, Holland Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
 For many years past political phil osophers have been saying that the republican ideal in Europe has been in state of arrested development They admitted that in the American continent the example set by the North American Colonies in 1776 had gradually spread over both North and South, but they said that Europe was too conservative to follow that lead and especially that the "Three Elm perors' were too firmly set to be disestablished. E Ss