Evening star., 1932-07-13
GERMAN ROYALTY
GAINING IN FAVOR
Widespread Evidences Show
Favor of Return of
Monarchy.

BY the Associated Press. ~
BERLIN, July 13.-Personal appear
ances of Hohenzollern princes at public
functions have become the vogue In
Germany under the Won Papen govern
ment.
The frank public confession Of Baron
Wilhelm Won Gayl. minister OF the in
terror. that he was still a confirmed
monarchist and the tribute paid the
Hohenzollern family by Wilhelm kuoe,
leader of Hitlers National Socialists IN
the Prussian Diet, are taken in political
circles as evidence that the former rul-
ing family will, under the new regime,
be accorded public honors which, for
l3 years, republican government has
denied them.
The KleineS Journal, weekly So
ciety gossip sheet owned by friend OF
Chancellor Franz Won Papen has even
suggested that ex-Emperor Wilhelm II
might return to Germany and take up
residence in the Nazi-controlled City OF
Coburg, where another ex-monarch,
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, has been living
for more than a decade.
Parade Before Prince.
Cumulative evidence of the rising
Hohenzollern stock is adduced In the
following:
At Perleberg, former Prussian gar
rlson city, some 5000 members OF the
Steel Helmet Federation of World War
Veterans assembled June 20 in their
field gray uniforms and paraded not
only before their national commander,
Franz Seldte. but also before former
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. The
kreuzzeitung, a Berlin daily owned
by the Steel Helmet, reported:
When the Crown Prince arrived at
Perleberg endless applause greeted him
The devotion of the people of the mark
of Brandenburg to the old ruling family
found eloquent expression"
The chief of the Perleberg Steel Hell
meters. Capt. Won MorcvowicZ, said in
his welcoming address that "the future
German state will be one ruled by a
German Emperor" Imperial flags were
IN evidence everywhere
At Leobschuetz a little upper Silesian
town, the organization of former I'm
perial Guards arranged for celebration
June Is, at which the various war vet
erans' associations and many Of Hitler S
Brown Shirts joined in parade.
Enthusiasm Expressed.
The Leobschuetz Volkszeitung reported
that the appearance of the former
Crown Prince and of his spouse, Crown
Princess Cecile, caused the waves Of
enthusism to rise sky high"
While Friedrich Wilhelm walked along
the ranks of the assembled trcops lit
tie girl dressed in white pressed a
bunch Of corn flowers into the hands
of Crown Princess Cecie as she eX-
pressed the wish that God may restore
the old Prussia to U.s." the Volkszeitung
reported
AS to the Crown Prince. he stopped
before each verein and addressed heart
felt words to this or that gray-haired
warrior, squeezing his hand as he did
so. For more than an hour he passed
before the troops"
At Bernau, near Berlin, on June 20,
Prince Oscar, fifth son Of the former
Emperor, took the salute of troops con-
sisting of sharpshooters' guilds and
veterans societies.
Gen. Won Dommes, former adjutant
of the KAISER in speech delivered
from the steps of the City Hall, lauded
the imperial colors as the true colors
of all German sharpshooters.
Greeted by Ex-Kaiser.
On the same Sunday there was re-
union of cavalry officers at Hanover
Great enthusiasm prevailed when a
telegram was read dated Doom, Hol-
land, and signed Wilhelm /. r." in
which the former supreme commander
wired:
With deep appreciation recall the &C.
tivities of the cavalry during the Worlc
war. May the old cavalry troops
return to their civil duties inspired with
the holy duty of fighting increasingly
for the resurrection 81 our fatherland
on the old, unshakable foundations Of
forward for honor and defense ,"
The response from Hanover said that
many thousands of cavalry veterans OF
the old German army Of the people
thank their supreme war lord with full
hearts for faithfully thinking of them
and for sending them greetings. We
are and shall remain firm in our fl
deity"
Der Aufrechte (the Upright One
Hohenzollern dynasty supporter, brings
as the leading article of Its June issue
a disquisition entitled rs Germany or
the Road to Monarchy?" from the per
Of DR.. Friedrich Konrad Arter. Artel
says, IN part.
Nom Partisan Head Demanded.
Developments in Germany simply
demand that there be a non-partisar
head of the state, such as we used to
have in the constitutional monarchy.
"At present the issues are befogget
by the authority of the venerable flelc
marshal Won Hindenburg). Inasmucf
as he, whose authority is rooted in the
monarchy, practically takes the place O.
a constitutional monarch. The ques.
ton of the form of state will become
acute, however, the moment the fielc
marshal Is with us no longer.
The National Socialists will soor
find themselves at the parting of the
ways. They must decide clearly be-
tween democracy and monarchy.
Pending this decision, it Is the para
mount duty of the steel helmet with
all it's strength and will, to hasten de.
velopments in the direction of a king
dom and kaLserdom."
Spain imported nearly $500,000 wortf
of old American rubber in the last year