Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-05

the new government does not see eye
to eye with Lord Reading. His reia-
tfons with some of the present min
listers, notably Lord Curzon. have
differences have been so notorious
that his resignation OF the viceroyalty
has been frequently announced and
usually denied. But his viceroyalty
is manifestly drawing to close. For
If he comes home in October to at
tend the imperial congress as the adj
vocate of the cause of the Indian
nationalists In India, in Africa. in
Australia and the Dominion of Can
ada, it cannot be in the role OF vice
roy, since he will forfeit that office
by statute the moment that ne quits
+ To. belong to the Prussian Order Of
St. John ,renuires ahe production. Of
documentary, proof that three gen
erations of ones forbears. alike on
the fathers side of the house as well
as on that of-the mother, have been
of wholly noble birth, free from any
bourgeois strain. 1t cannot be said,
therefore, that Prince Eitel Fried
rich, in investing recently a num-
Der of German royalists with this
purely Lutheran order, of which
IT,.
any new mobiles or conferred any
| new titles. He has merely secured
the accession of a number of men
who were already mobiles by birth TO
this Prussfan order of St John.
whose members. as part of their oath
of initiation. have. since 1900, when
the Hohenzollerns proclaimed them
selves Kings of Prussia, sworn serv-
Ice to the rulers of that nation.
Since the former kaiser abdicated
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fight from Spa to Doom. both his
dignity of German emperor as well
as of King of Prussia. some $50
Teuton mobiles have been invested
with the order by Eitel Friedrich, the
| most gross and unsavory of all the
now living princes of his house. But
| as the former kaiser has officially alb
Dictated his Prussian throne. and
Prussia has been republic for the
last FIVE years: it may be asked
of Prussia who no longer exists off,
cially, exacted by Eitel Friedrich
from the $50 new knights upon whom
he has bestowed the accolade can
really be considered as binding.
y +
Many of the new knights are land
| owners. But, no matter whether their
estates be large or small, they would
think twice. aye. indeed, a number of
! times, before risking the confscation
| of their lands. Imprisonment or exile.
by lending any hand to a monarchical
RESTORATION of the Hohenzollerns, I'M
/ less convinced beforehand of the alb
| solute success of the enterprise They
{ have lost TOO much through this dy-
| nasty to be. disposed to risk what
| they have been able to save from
the wrecksge- Meanwhile, they are
quite glad. to wear the small button
| or badge of the order. white NAL
| tese cross on a black background as
the public evidence. of the possession
of patrician BIRTH which their ethics,
! their manners and appearance might
| not always lead one to suspect. Let
| me add that this comparatively mod
| ern Prussian Order OF st. John has
| nothing in common with the ultra
| Catholic and ancient Sovereign Order
of Malta, and also that : of the
Deutsche Orden. to which so many of
| the old aristocracy of the Rhine prov
| inces OF. the southern German states
! and of the former dual empire belong.
They give their allegiance.to no SOW
] eretgn, least of all to, the King Of
1 Prussia. The Order of Malta. dating
| from the crusades, Is in itself a SOW
| members being pledged TO celibacy.
and the genealogical qualifications
/ demanded for admission are four
| times as severe as the comparatively
/ mild requirements of the infinitely
\ more modern Lutheran Prussian Or
/ it's fat. grand master. Prince Eitel
| Friedrich of Prussia. for purposes of
more or less abortive Hohenzollern
| propaganda. @...7%- 81 ',t