Evening star., 1923-10-27
BY THE MARaursE DE FoNrENoy:

BY THE MARQU1 DE FONTEN0Y.
Jesuits claim for their historic or
der pre- eminence in the education of
Roman Catholic princes and prin-
cesses who are destined, by virtue
of their birth. to exercise sovereign
sway over the nations of the old
world. Some of the ablest and wisest
of the rulers in past centuries have
been indebted for the success Of their
reign to the training which they had
received from the Society of Jesus,
which makes a specially Of educa-
tion--a training which was not re-
stricted in any way to merely re-
ligious matters but to all sorts OF
useful. knowledge Of the world.
Jesuits have often been alternately
praised and denounced as the power
behind thrones. and II must be con-
fessed that, as general rule. their
tendency has been of a conservative
rather than of a liberal character.
Austria, however, formerly the most
reactionary Of all European states,
owes her redemption from the eco
nomic and political moraSs in which
she was plunged after the war and by
overthrow Of the monarchy to a most
liberal minded Jesuit priest, or rather
prelate. Bishop Seipef. a remarkably
enlightened member OF the Jesuit
order, who for near three years past
has. with n rank of chancellor and
with the support Of the Christian So
cialists and of the ordinary socialists,
exercised sovereign sway throughout
Austria, Inspiring the entente powers
with such q degree OF confidence that.
at the instance of the league of ma
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United States have co-operated in
securing. large loans for the Viennese
treasury. -
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The general elections have just
taken place in Austria. and they have
resulted in an overwhelming victory
for Mgr. Seipel, the chancellor, and
in the complete defeat of the for
merly powerful pan-German party,
who were in favor Of Austria's alb
sorption into tho republic of Ger
many---that is to say. Of the reich"
at Berlin. 1t cannot be denied that
the brilliant success Of the wholly
liberal reform government of Chan
cellor Seipel at Vienna, which has
created confidence both at home and
abroad is a distinct feather in the
the extent to which 1t is disposed to
adapt itself to the requirements of
the modern: times without the sacri-
flce of any of it's best principles.
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Prince and Princess Joseph Colo
redo Mansfield were such frequent
visitors to America, up to the time
Of the great war, and had so many
friends in this country. that the ar
rest of the princess by the Paris
police in a. Montmartre hotel with a
man of the name of Legal, who was
President Faillaux at the Elysees
Palace during his term as chief mag.
istrate of the republic. is calculated
to create almost as great sensa-
tion in. this country as in France.
What led to the arrest was that Le-
gall has been sought for by the po-
lice on: charges of swindling rich
women, and that the princess should
have been found in his company has
merely furnished her husband with
the proofs which he has been hunt
ing for in order to enable him to
obtain from the French courts a
severance of his matrimonial bonds.
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The prince. has always had q great
deal of trouble about this marriage.
which led to his estrangement with
all the members Of his family and
especially with the court of Vienna,
whose doors remained closed to her.
At the time when she entangled him
In her coils In 1903 and induced him
to lead her to the altar at Paris, she
led him. to believe that she was the
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