Evening star., 1923-06-24
NEWBALKANFLAME
. BLAMED ON QUEEN
Hardin Says Marie of Ruma-
mia Caused Latest Revival
of Age-0Id Disputes.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN,
Germany,s Foremost Publicist.

BY Gable to The Star.
BERLIN. June 23.-The Balkan
torch" once more is aflame. Words
which many believed had been for
ever forgotten once more assail our
ears. Rumania quickly recognized
the new Bulgarian government for
dynastic reasons" The foreign min
lister Of Jugoslavia, itself kingdom.
publicly complains that Rumania act
ed against the interests of the little
Sntente because her dynasty desired
20 strengthen the monarchic idea"
The word dynasty doesn't SO much
refer to the Hohenzollern who retgned
at Bucharest as to his politically
more active wife, Queen Marie, born
princess of Great Britain and Ire
land. Because one son of this Eng
iish-reared lady was to marry Gre
clan princess and one of her daugh-
ters was to marry the Greek crown
prince, Venizelos was overthrown in
1890 and Constantine was recalled.
Marie convinced a committee of
women to which belonged the Danish
sisters, Alexandra of England and
Maria Feodorovna of Russia and
Thyra Of Cumberland. all related to
Constantine, that only misalliances
would thereafter be possible for
princes and princesses of reigning
houses If kaisers, kings and courts
should disappear. The result of this
politics in long clothes"-Bismarck'
Characterization of women and priests
In diplomacy-was the GrecoTurkish
war. whose liquidation at Lausanne
means the triumph of the Turks.
whose expulsion from European
lands, despoiled by their hordes for
centuries, was the greatest gain of
the world war, but who now can re-
IN Adiannn1a and
Caused Lloyd Georges Fall.
The fact that Lloyd George in 1920
} blindly followed the Windsor dy-
nastys unspoken wishes and allowed
Constantine's restoration, thereby en-
dangering England's whole anti
Turkish policy, and tried too late by
h course of brutality against Mus
tapha Kemal to rescue that policy.
gave Poincare his desired opportunity
to discredit the troublesome Welsh
man and compel him to resign his
premiership.
of 1920. Queen Marie, whose father
was the Duke of Edinburgh and
whose mother was a Russian grand
duchess, felt, like her uncle, ex-Czar
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and some
members of the British royal family,
that the favorite of the peasants,
Premier Stamboulinsky, too greatly
overshadowed the young King Boris,
thus further weakening the monarchic
idea, and that he probably was plan
ming to make himself president of
peasant republic. hence he must be
overthrown- This overthrow was
possible because Italy and Hungary
desired trouble in the Balkans; be-
cause Kemal. who is in close connec-,
ton with the Macedonian rebels,
hopes to strengthen his position
through Balkan complications, and,
last. but not least, because England's
political interests now coincide with
Bulgarian dynastic interests.
Recurrence of the old Balkan con-
nicts now is being risked in order
that the little entente may be weak
> ened and through it France, which Is
dependent on 1T in southeastern Eu-
rope. and also in order that Italy can
undertake some action against Jugp-
saavta and the Magyars against the
serbs and Czechs. Bulgaria tnevi-
taoly must push on toward Macedo-
MIA A new conffagratfon like that of
1914 can come.
Doesn't Baldwin realize his en-
pire's police spells danger. for Euro
pean peace? If the attempted
strengthening of the monarchic inter-
rationale succeeds in Bulgaria as 1t
dld In Greece 1t will affect Germany,
Hungary's half-clad and suffering
people easily can be made to believe
their mfsfortunes are the result of
the overthrow of their emperor. Our
royalty party is strongly organized.
They are fighting the new order
everywhere. Passive warfare has
devastated the Ruhr Germany is
economically ruined. Everywhere the
situation fayors the monarchists.
Marie at Bucharest now can marry
her children to consorts of equal
rank. and Wilhelm at Doom can
praise the murder of German work.
ingmen as q heroic deed and boast to
students that he did "immeasurably
great things" for Germany.