Evening star., 1923-05-02
8Y THE MARaUIsE DE FoxTENoY.

Dh - HE N<AuatiSE DE FONIENOA.
Prince Guido Lazarus Henckel Won
DonnerSmarck, heretofore renowned as
quite the wcalthiest nobla OF Prus-
sia, and, indeed, of all Germany, has
just abjured his German citizenship
and secured naturalization as a Pole.
From this 1t would appear that this
great industrial and territorial mag
nate, whose wealth at the time Of his
fathers death in 1916, in Germany
alone, was officially rated for taxa
tion purposes at $4,000, 900. and who,
in addition to numerous other inter
ests, is the head of the greatest film
trust in Central Europe, regards the
political and economic outlook of Ger
many, and more especially of Prussia,
with profound misgiving. He evident
fy considers the prospects Of Poland
more promising. and as Offering a
greater degree of assurance of secu-
rity of property and life.
Like others, he is impressed with
the conviction that Germany is des-
tined to undergo many drastic and
revolutionary changes of u social. po-
litical and economic nature before she
finally settles down to any stable
conditions as a normal power in the
concert of nations. She has yet to
appreciate the extent Of her defeat
in the great war. which she so
gratuitously provoked. She has yet to
pay the price of that defeat to the
victors. and to fulfill the conditions
which she solemnly pledged herself TO
accept as the terms of the peace for
which she craved, in November, 1918.
Monarchical disturbances - and,
above all, popular uprisings against
the profiteers and selfish rich by the
masses, and even by the educated
classes, who find that the worthless
paper currency no longer can pur-
en- by hunger and despair to plunder
and to rapine with general anarchy
and chaos, will be the share Of Ger
many before she recovers her senses.
Bolshevism of the Muscovite brand,
even if called by another name, looms
largely upon her horizon.
Under the circumstances it is not
home and abroad should be inferior
to that Of Poland, and that a .particu-
larly wide-awake and up-to-date
magnate of the industrial, financial
and social world like Prince Donners-
marck, should transfer his allegiance
from Berlin to Poland, to the safety
and future of which. France, and in
lesser degree Great Britain, are
committed, and which commands the
xr,Il nd
support of the United States.
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Prince Donnersmarck, now in his
thirty-fifth year. and who made him
self personally acquainted with many
Of the great Industries which he in
herited from his father by working
as a collier. as a factory hand. as a
mechanic, as minor, as a steel
worker, etc, is descended from that
valet of Emperor Rudolf II, Lazarus
Henckel, who became that monarch s
most trusted confidant, his purchasing
and financial agent, and ultimately
his banker. Lazarus Henckel was a
Christian Of Jewish parents. and to-
ward the closing years of his life had
amassed so much wealth as to en-
able him to loan very large sums of
money to his imperial master.
He did not do this without insist
ing on good securities, and when
Emperor Rudolf lay dying, Lazarus,
in q rather ungrateful fashion. fore
closed his mortgage on the kaiser's s
magnificent chateau and estate OF
Neudeck. near Tarnowitz in Upper
Silesia, and assumed possession there
Of, Neudeck remaining the principal
country seat of the Henckel family
to this day,