The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-26
Playing Ball" With Hitler Is Embarrassing Game For Prince Paul Of YugOSlayia
BY MILTON BRoNNER

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 London. June 26.-If Yugoslavia is forced by threats into either tying up with the German-Italian power group or benevolent neutrality toward them, it will put Prince, Paul, the leading Regent of that country into a rather embarrassing position.
 By training, education, inclina- tion and family relationships he would probably prefer that his country should be linked up with England and France. But his coun- try's geographical position makes acquiescence to the Axis powers de- mands almost mandatory. : Prince Paul, the tall, good-look- ing young chief Regent was edu- cated at Oxford. He has the Eng fish manner. And he is 8 brother in-laW of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. Family reasons would pull him towards England. Hard facts may drive him towards Germany and Italy.
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 It is one more shining example of the tangles in European politics often caused by the intermarriages of royalty. In the last world war there were family currents which helped pull countries together. In other cases, the nations pulled apart and became enemies, thus causing interrelated royalties to stop speak ing to each other. In fact, they had to appear superpatriotic lest their subjects suspect them.
 Three main monarchical belliger- ents were England, Germany and Russia. George V's father and Kais- CT Wilhelm's mother were brother and sister. So Kaiser and King were first cousins. Moreover Georges mother and Czar Nicholas mother were Danish princesseS who were sisters. So King and Czar were first cousins. King George of England found himself on the same side of the fence as cousin Nicholas of Russia, and fighting to the death the Germany of cousin William the Kaiser.
 Italy, which finally came in on the side of the Allies, had in Victor Emmanuel a King who had married a Montenegrin princess. Montenegro was on the side of the Allies, SO there was no family clash there, Rumania placed its royal family in a peculiar position when 1t threw in with the Allies. King Ferdinand was a Hohenzollern and so related to the Kaiser whose cause he fought. But Ferdinand's wife was British princess.
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 Greece remained benevolently neutral toward Germany until Venizelos drove King Constantine out. Now, Constantine was related to the Danish royal family which gave mothers to King George of England and Czar Nicholas of Rus Sia. But it was always thought Con- stantine was strongly influenced by his wife, Sophia, who was sister of the German Kaiser and an ardent booster of the German cause.
 Bulgaria came in on the side of Germany. Czar Ferdinand was the son of a German prince and the husband of a German princess. De- spite his French Bourbon mother, his sympathies were always strongly pro- German.
 Little Belgium was ruled by King Albert, whose wife was a Bavarian princess. But she threw herself whole -heartedly into the cause of the country over which her husband ruled.
 The leading neutral countries all had dynastic connections with one side or the other. Holland was often suspected by the Allies of being a bit on the side of Germany. Queen Wilhelmina's husband was a Ger man prince.
 Spain, despite big German busi- ness interests down there and de- spite the pull of aristocracy in favor of Germany, remained neutral. King Alfonso XIII always said the only persons who favored the Allies were the common people and himself. His wife was an English princess.
 Sweden, like Holland, was at times thought to lean toward Ger many. King Gustav's wife was a daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden.
 Norway's sympathies were with England. King Haakon springs from the Danish royal family so X closely connected with the English and Russian dynasties And his wife was a sister of King Gorge Fifth of England.