Evening star., 1935-10-07
QUEEN MARIE SEES.
WORLD CONFLICT.
Her Majesty, in Pre.Birth.
day Interview, 0epIores
ItaIy's Stand.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALCHIK, Rumania-In q pre-
birthday anniversary interview which
Queen Marie Of Rumania granted the
Associated Press-she will be go years
old October 29-her majesty envi-
stoned another European war is a
likely consequence of the present
trouble in Africa
The Queen deplored Italy's deter
mination to subdue Ethiopia and said
this action might well prove to be
the spark to set'the whole world aflre
again.
Speaks Reflectively.
Gazing out upon the peaceful
waters Of the Black Sea from her
picturesque Turkish villa, Rumania's
war time Queen said refiectively:
- "As one who experienced and par
ticipated in all the horrors of the
last World War, in which 100000
men we're slaughtered. it is sad and
tragic to think that any modern
nation could even think of plunging
the world into another food of blood
and tears. Have all our sacrifices and
travail of the last war been In vain?
Surely the efforts of the enlight-
ened Emperor of Ethiopia to lift his
country out of the bonds of slavery
should win him the admiration and
support Of the whole world, not in
vasion and attack of his peaceful
country. I fervently hoped that our
Italian friends would find more
merciful way of settling their disputes
with Ethiopia than using bombs and
bullets against an innocent people. A
war in Ethiopia seems all the more
deplorable because it means that the
white race will be pitted against the
black race. AS We are all children of
the same God and made of the same
flesh, can we not all live in peace
together, whites and blacks alike?"
Declares Money Root Of Evil.
Speaking from the mature expert
ence of her three score years. Queen
Marie declared that so long as money
ruled the world and munitions makers
built their ''hideous instruments of
death and destruction, she feared no
lasting peace could be achieved in
the world.
only by sympathetic understand
ing of each others problems, by less
aggressive nationalism and the break
ing down of artificial international
barriers. it seems to me, can we insure
peace. think the people are Strug-
Cling to make the world better, but
there seem to be great mistakes and
evils somewhere. Certainly the point
we have reached in life today is far
from satisfactory.
Il see no real happiness in the
present exaggerated separation Of one
country from another by arbitrary
tariff walls and nationalistic barriers
think the world was much happie,
when the frontiers were not so con.
fined or shut off one from another.
Looking back upon her long anc
dramatic royal career, Rumania's bril-.
liant woman sovereign explained llel
philosophy of life and disclosed the
secret of her beauty, buoyancy, gooo
health and serenity.
Enumerates PHILOSOPHERS.
''sixty years OF intensive living,
she said, have taught me always tt
have sense Of humor. to maintain
the kindliest feeling toward all hui
manity, to have an intense interest in
people, events and things, a deep love
of beauty in every form. an abiding
faith in humanity. and liberation to-
ward human failngs and foibles. J
have striven always to do as much
good in the world as possible, to play
the game fairly, to see the other per.
sons side of a question, to judge
slowly and charitably, to forget
wrongs. To forgive is not only divine
but it Is an essential part of every
body's duty. and especially of a
queens duty. do not believe in the
Biblical doctrine Of an eye for an eye
I believe in the soft word which
turneth away wrath"
The Queen continued: II think no
person can live continually up to his
best. nor Is he half as bad as In
those moments when he behaves
wrongly. I believe most implicitly
that one has to pay for everything
and that any mistake one makes must
eventually be paid for in cne way OF
another. But that must not make us
afraid of living. If you feel strong
enough to do thing, do it with all
your might, even if later you find il
was a mistake. But don't cry when
you receive the hard knocks which
come as Q consequence Of your
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