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| on Rome CHANGED to be dining in the
| Athenaeum Club In London with an
eminent historian and an English dip
| lomat from the Paris embassy. AT
F., that time the king market had not re-
| covered from the depressing effects OF
| he war and was markedly bearish.
| Goodbye, Victor Emmanuel was the
| tenor of the comments of both these
| knowledgeable men. They looked for
political abdication, "in the Interests OF
| the state" after a brief period during
which public opinion was being pre-
| pared.
But the monarchy hourishes, although
| in cold storage, and Crown Prince UNI.
/ berto's marriage to the pretty Belgian
Princess Marie Jose has had the effect
| of putting down new strong roots. That
royal house will probably flower pro-
eressively as the dictatorship inevitably,
/ in course of time, withers. 1t Is so
popular that II Duce takes care to as
sociate himself with the King in all
matters of constitutional principle and
procedure, and never allows the King
| to be photographed alone - Mussoilni
must always be by his side.
Royalist Party in France.
| There is a Royalist party in France,
which, although somewhat in the ma
| ture of a comic opera affair, has po-
| tentialities sufficiently alarming for the
pretender to the French throne to be
kept in exile by the government, while
| his son is refused admission to French
| university and to the French Army.
| Monarchist sentiment in republican
| Germany is sufficiently strong for the
| government to be unable to keep the
| crown prince out of the country, and
| the possibility OF restoration OF the
i Hohenzollern monarch, at least in
| tab or
| ropean statesman includes as factor
| in his calculations in estimating future
| situations.
Early last month Count Bethlen
prime minister of Hungary, arrived in
| London. He sat at dinner tables with
his dark, lively, good-looking wife, an
enigmatic, thin, silent man. Care
seemed to sit heavily on him despite
his gay company. And no wonder.
| He had come to consult with the Brit
ish Government concerning the ulti-
mate disposal of the throne of Hun
| gary.
Next November Archduke Otto will
be 18. legal age, and it is confidently
| expected he will claim the throne from
which his late father, King Charles,
| Emperor of Austria and King OF Hun
gary, had to flee. Archduke Otto at
| present is In Belgium with his mother,
| the ex-Empress Zita All his life he
has been brought up with the idea of
being king one day. His brothers and
| sisters have to address him as their
sovereign, and servants have to walk
L.out backward from his presence.
The Hungarian minority in Transyl-
vania, that huge rich territory carved
out of Hungary after the war and hand
ed over to Rumania, want Otto and
resurgence of nationalism in their old
i InV oil nj revision force
otherwise, of the Trianon treaty en-
bodying the transfer But many OF the
| Hungarian loyaliSts are opposed to the
! succession of the Hapsburgs, and they
are offering the Hungarian throne to
King Carol of Rumania. The French
/ government has been supporting the
claims of Carol and it is quite probable
that the French government would
rather see united Hungarian Ruma-
MAN empire than return of the Haps-
burgs. Italy, on the other hand, wants
I Otto as foil against French influence,
and is accused of actively plotting a
coup d'etat.
Plan Is Outlined.
The Pravo Lidu, often used by the
Czech secret service for the timely pub
lication of news of hostile intrigues di-
rected by exterior powers against the
/
the alleged Italian coup one day late In
June, and set all the chancellories of
Europe humming and half the war min
listers calling for the relevant maps,
The archduke, the story goes, is to make
q journey, oStensibly for purposes OF
study, accompanied by Belgian national
list students, which will eliminate in a
visit to Budapest. On his arrival in
that capital Otto will be proclaimed
King of Hungary as the denouement OF
| closely worked out plot which has
already advanced far
Before Otto's arrival thousands of
Italian officers and men, dressed as
civilians. will be struggled into Hungary.
The italian Army also will support the
"putSch" by march across Southern
Austrian territory into Hungary. The
idea is to confront the little entente
with fiat accomph.
1t sounds wild enough, but Mussolini
has been intriguing in Hungary for
years, there have been several arms
smuggling incidents duplicating Italy,
and both Jugoslavia and Rumania are
always complaining of hostile Italian
moves calculated either to weaken them
or to detach them from their military
alliance with France. One may safely
say that If Otto did come to the Hun
| garian throne Mussolini would stand
IuLIlSSlI several QTulkS Oh Ills IdVOElLe
Lachrymae Christi.
There Is, of course, always the posi-
bility that Queen Marie, that formidable
matchmaker, might pull off another of
her celebrated matrimonial coupS and
marry her youngest daughter, the lovely
Ileana, to a restored Otto, thus uniting
Rumania and Hungary in one royal
family But how Carol and Otto would
get on together is question.
Wants King in Greece.
The Rumanian Queen is kept pretty
busy trying to interest the influential
ones of Europe, and especially the mag
mates of international finance, in the
idea of restoring the monarchy in
Greece. Greece has suffered much from
its kings, and especially from the crazy
Constantine, who was afflicted by a
Napoleonic complex But former King
George, Carols brother in-law, is voted
nice young man, and nothing really
stands in the way of his return except
bunch of politicians who are growing
neither younger nor more popular.
One day, perhaps, some interested
millionaire will finance a coup, as Ia
haroff financed the Venezelan scheme
for a Greater Greece, and then George
will desert the tennis courts of English
country houses and the dance restau-
rants of London and Paris for the not
unpicturesque life of a king in the
royal palace at Athens.
He is a most Anglicized member Of
royalty in looks and tastes. He had a
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