Evening star., 1938-01-30
Royal Family Sees Restoration
In Frances Economic Dilemma
Supporters of 29.Year.Old "Dauphin" Watch Or
portunity as Third Republic Struggles
in Mire of Disc0rd.

the American manner, or a strong and re-
spected dictator in the German Italian
manner-all this tends to put flesh on the
ghosts bare bones
The people demand . Messiah. France
cannot stomach 4 dictator. Yet the re-
public is dragging France through the
mire.
Where, then. is salvation. refuge. peace
and order? In the monarchy!
Hope Without Plan.
Just how 1t will be done is Of, no conse-
quence. Restore the monarchy and the
millennium will dawn!
When the factions rioted in Paris at the
time Of the stavisky scandals, police and
Republican Guard against the infuriated
people, royalists joined In the fighting with
cries Of "Vive lie Roll" The Duke of Guise
promptly issued q manifesto inviting
"Frenchmen Of all parties to adopt the
monarchist principle"
Royalist propaganda has redoubled since
then. There is a royalist committee in
every province In France now It works
mainly among the political and oticial
classes. The men the royalists want to con-
vert are lawyers. doctors, intellectuals.
teachers, Judges and police projects.
1t is hard work extending the appeal Of
the monarchist principle In such a coun-
try as France. Just whom to appeal to Is
problem. Strange as it may seem. the
young Orleans is actually making a bid
for the support Of the Left. as well as to
those politicians and capitalists who fear
state Socialism Of the Fascist brand only
little less than they fear Communism.
The hope Of the ghosts" is that some
political leader, feeling his parliamentary
majority fragile, may recall the royal FAM
lily in order to have something to lean on
that is more durable than a parliamentary
majority. The hope is slender, but the re-
public Is not exactly strong 1t is in 4
state Of constant crisis torn between the
conflicting claims of Capitalism, Socialism,
Communism and Fascism and menaced
now by two authoritarian states strongly
organized for aggressive war, and dependent
for its very life on the support-based on
self-interest-of a similarly menaced Brit
ish Empire.
De Ii ROGUE Threat Dies.
Before the cagoulards planned their
coup d'etat the chief threat to the republic
and liberty came from Col. de la Rocoue
and his Croix de Feu league Of 100000
trained militants. De Ia Rocque-whose
brother. Pierre. Is the Dauphins aide-is
dlscredited now. But he never was
royalist anyway: and a restored monarchy
would not base itself on an upper-class
dictatorship whose collapse would carry
the monarchy to its final destruction.
The royalists offer their ghost King AZ
the alternative to dictatorship, and the
antidote to collapse. They wish Daudet
and his Action Francaise" paper and the
so squads Of the Camelots du Roi had not
appointed themselves the champions Of
the royalist movement. Daudet, son of
Alphonse the poet, is brilliant writer
who creates provocations and uses them
as excuses to become engaged in violent
verbal battles. When, short OF an oppo-
nent and fight, he, Roman Catholic.
started row with the Pope and got his
paper put on the Index, the ghost King
broke with him. Orleans Bourbon needs
the Vatican.
Orleans House Wealthy.
restored monarchy would not cost
the French much The Orleans house
wealthy; the Duke inherited $4,000, 900.
He houses his pensioned retainers In his
Chateau dAmboise on the Loire. His
W11e is permitted to reside in France. He
lives quietly and leaves the active CAM
paiening to his son and daughter .in.law
The latter live in q nearby chateau
and work in the Manor d'Anjou head
quarters, sitting on either side of a great
eiaas"topped desk. A crystal bowl stand
ing between them contains 4 handfu, Of
sacred French soil
Inc countess Is a good-lookina and
charming young woman, with more de.
cioed features than her 2o-year-old hu,-
pand. He is slim, with delicate neat
features, little smear of mustache and
dark sloe eyes.
Inc count has a good 'lne" of areu-
ment: The republican regime has failed
70 insure, In our age Of plenty, that every
ia"iiy snail have enough, and thereby It
mas disqualified itself. Il think it is nec-
essary That the great feudal lords Of tod.v
anould be curbed by the kings. No d,cta-
torsnip can accomplish that task AZ IN.
ciently as the monarchy"
After the Duke Of orleans-who died IN
1875. and from whom the Duke Of ouise
inherited his pretendership-the count Is
JOY to the royalists. Orleans was always
sad trial to the cause.
The succession, In the absence Of 4 direct
heir. passed to the Duke Of ouise In 1926.
The Duke was living quite happily on his
enormous estates in France. He had made
himself useful to the French wartime GOV
ernment on diplomatic missions and had
received the Croix de 0uerre and the
Legion dHonneur. II, in 1925, he had
disclaimed all the rights, responsibilities
and duties Of the head Of the House OF
France. the old law Of exile might have
been waived In his favor. But he claimed
everything and he had 10 %. eoms ~
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