Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-14

treaty binding all nations to eScheW
war as national policy of aggression
and ACKNOWLEDGMENT? No sooner do the
messages come that the Mexican war Is
pacified than the uneasy news trickles
through diplomatic circles that new
war in Europe is about to break, with
all its horrors and crueltieS. The
mighty Republic of Andorra threatens
reprisals upon Spain and France. Re-
fused the right to lick her own postage
stamps, she turns in fury to lick some
thing, whether that something be the
nation of Napoleons or the one of Sum
day bullfghts. Andorra, begorra, re-
fuses to be imposed upon. and from her
lofty mountains and sheltered wales she
calls forth her William Tells and
Patrick Henrys, breathing defiance and
the spirit Of liberty. She will mobilize
her army of 500 men, besides officers
and camp followers. Aviators cannot
ny over her tall peaks, ships of war
cannot ascend her streams, and she is
sheltered by benign nature, and in her
general illiteracy she has hardly real
lied the end of feudalism, but behold
Andorra, splendid in her isolation, pic
turesque in her grand scenery and in
nocent Of single automobile hence
rich in parking places beyond the
dreams OF chauffeurs and of plente-
BUSINESS such as all the wealth of Amer
lea cannot equals She will fight!
Strength to her arms!
X
UncenSored news leaks out by way of
Perpignan, France. that Spain has de-
termined to establish post Office in the
foreign territory of Andorra, and re-
quire Andorrans to use Spanish stamps
upon all mail entering Spain.
Was 1t not the Stamp Act which
brought rebellion among the thirteen
colonies of America. resulting in the
American Revolution? England had her
George Three Eyes, and Spain may
profit by his example. There may not
be an Andorran Tea Party, owing to a
lack of harbor equal to that of Boston,
but trifle not, o France and Spain,
because the tempest in teapot has not
yet begun to brew! The enemy once
counted prematurely upon surrender by
John Paul Jones when he had not yet
begun to fight. Shall not history teach
a lesson to Europe? Behold what a
fire little spark kindleth!
X X X X
Rome sat upon her seven hills--al-
though when the writer. a few months
ago, visited Rome, he could not find a
hill equal in altitude to Mount Pleasant.
Washington, D. G. But Rome clucked
about her sitting abilities covering seven
hills, without counting her unmatched
eggs. If Rome had her Caesar and
France her Napoleon. and Switzerland
her William Tell, what world defiers
should the Valees d'Andorre produce. in
this day Of stress and postage stamps
Let lis pause for answeri
X X X
The Republic of Andorra covers 100
square miles-more than double the
area of the District of Columbia. Her
population Is nearly 5000. She enjoys
universal franchise in the election of
the "a members of her local govern
ment. which Is so far ahead of the
District of Columbia that we residents
of the latter cannot overcome our in
feriority complex in the presence of the
humblest Andorran.
AS for her antiquity, it dates back
more than millennium-aye, even
beyond the day of Charlemagne-back
beyond the invasion of Europe by the
Moors, who drove the bullfghters of
Iberia to take refuge in the hidden val
ley and then turned the key on the
pass into its mountain trimmed close.
they can't make any getaway There
are no roads in all the country, except
new branch road leading into Spain.
Who wants to 60 to Spain? No rail-
roads-not even a blueprint The
bride paths are rough and steep. wind
ing over the mountains, fit only for
Andorran mules or Angora goats. Ma
poleon is alleged to have marched his
army over the Alps, but he never dared
march it over the Andorran Pyrenees.
He sidestepped the Andorran forces, for
Napoleon Bonaparte was wise general,
avoiding disastrous routes like that of
Moscow and probable Andorra; wiser
than a Wilhelm on the Marine.
x X X X
In 218 BIC, the inhabitants of what
is now known as Andorra, but then
called the Illergetes, were conquered by
Hannibal Later, the Romans took
charge of them. even at time when
every road led to Rome" and Andorra
never had any road leading anywhere,