Evening star., 1923-11-11
TEUTON CROWN PRINCES
TO ENTER TUC.OF.WAR
Monarchial Movement Not Yet Squelched,
William and Rupprecht Will
Strive for Throne.

Won Kahr, military dictator, made
pronounced efforts to eradicate Ho-
henzollern sentiment in Bavaria. For.
does not Bavaria have a candidate
for the throne of Germany in the per-
son of Crown Prince Rupprecht, an
localized figure and an indirect suf-
ferer through long years of Hohen-
zollern and Prussian dictation? Fur
thermore, Catholic influence within
Germany, according to the Bavarians.
can be made paramount, Bavaria al
ways having been more or less rest
less under religious domination of
the Hohenzollern Protestant faith.
First reports indicated that Won
knilling. Won Kahr and even Gen.
Won Lossow, the reichswehr leader
and Berlin's emissary to Munich, had
gone over to the Ludendorff-H Hitler
regime. This was by compulsion,
however. and that the Bavarian lead
ers were not of the Hohenzollern
faith was indicated by their prompt
turning against the Hitler-Ludendorff
FORCES. suppressing them and making
once more safe for the Rup-
rechtites.
The success of the Bavarian regime
is hailed with satisfaction as saving
republican forms. But in view of the
fact that BaSarian government lead
ers are pronouncedly monarchist in
their political leanings, 1t may be ex-
pected they will continue to seek VIC
tory over the Stresemann government
in Berlin and eventual Bavarian die
tation over the whole of Germany.
Now May Lead Own Cause.
1t is known that the crown prince
in his exile on Wieringen Island, Hol-
land, since the collapse of the Ger
man armies in the world war, has
been in touch with Ludendorff and
those monarchical elements in Ger
many sympathetic to the restoration
of the Hohenzollerns. Ludendorff,
exercising the same attributed cum
ming as in the world war, really was
the fountainhead of the Hohenzol-
movement tending to lessen extreme
burdens imposed upon the former
heads Of German royalty. Repeat
edly there have been rumors of the
exile's return to Germany As re-
peatedly have these proven hoaxes.
Had Ludendorfr been successful in
Munich and had he pressed toward
Berlin, 1t is believed that greeting
him there would have been he crown
prince, he to assume the ermine OF
the German empire. But Ludendorff
has failed He is thoroughly dis
credited. in fact. faces trial for trea-
son. No longer can he carry the
Hohenzollern escutcheon to success.
There must be another leader. Wier-
ingen hears of the famed generals
falL The crown prince, ready any
way Tor any eventuality in case OF
Ludendorhs success, jumps into Ger
many, there to become the fountain
head of Hohenzollern monarchical
scheming. And it is significant that
the crown prince made his Iong-ex-
pected flight just ahead of the pres
entation of the interallied demand
upon Holland that he should be frus-
trated in any and all attempts to
return to Germany.
May Mean Two States.
Naturally it cannot be foreseen
what the result will be in case he
succeeds in rallying Prussian mon
archists about him. They might sue
ceed In overthrowing the Stresemann
regime in Berlin and seizing control
Of Prussia, but 1t would not neces-
sarily follow that Bavaria would es-
pouse his cause. More likely, as a
result of the conflict or diversion in
Germanic monarchical forces, there
would come to pass definite split be-
tween Bavaria and Berlin. at least un-
til such time as unity OF action be-
came essential in tn I preservation of
Germanic interest. That this oppor-
tunity would soon follow is indicated
by the growing alaI I'm in Paris over
monarchical striving and the very-evi-
dent plan to extend French control
within Germany in case 1t Is appar-
ent efforts to overthrow the republic
and seat in places of authority in
terests inimical to fulilment of the
treaty of Versailles are about to sue
ceed.
Already the allies have demanded
the restoration of interallied mill
tary control over Germany. Berlin
resists on the ground that the Sc
curity of the interallied commission
antipathy now running at flood tide
against the French. But whether Ber-
lin consents or not there is every
indication that should the reich be
endangered or overthrown. or either
the Hohenzollern or Wittlesbach fol-
lowers regain the upper hand, the
German crisis really then will be-
are sworn to tear the treaty of Yer
sailles to shreds and again fight
France for the complete liberation OF
Germany.
These are mere contingencies. II
the meantime Chancellor Stresemanr
holds tight rein on affairs and We:
may preserve the reich and avoid tn,
almost certain penalties that will b.
heaped upon German peoples IN cas-.
of treaty transgressfon. The German
situation as a whole has done moth
ing more SO far than to whet tn,
wits of allied chanceIleries. No polio,
or set of policies can remain fixet
under present conditions There mus
be more definite trends within Ger
many and without.
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