Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-04-02 | Page 32 | Marriages Disarming Balkans

I Marriages Disarming Balkans I QUEEN'S ACTION I HALTS PERIL I OF NEi 11 flow Htiyul tfarrlnffcs re Patching i i Balkan Troubles enter Queen Marie f Romania; Master Dtplo matlc Matchmaker: Left, Prlncow 'lljr.i if Greece and Her I'isr.civ i Prince Christian eSsederfck of Deu-mark: Deu-mark: Rtgtit (above) Princess V:'j-tr or Hiinianlti nnil Her Flencc, uiirr Alexander of Jugoslavia: 'bc-low) 'bc-low) Princess Yolonds of Italj and I Klnj Boris r Bulgaria, Whom s.hc Hl By SKA r ARI.. April L The Balkan pen-H pen-H insula, fahted "eookp!t ol Europe;" la losing it pi :i breeding center 1 i European wnrs. Ago-old si'.ars th.it time after t.uie liaye pondc.l not only the Balkan na-thr na-thr but all of Kuri- ;n:o warfare, B are ie-inc healed. 11 uv the ol ii:;hr renra H, tit. i.. diplomat 'tv. the whole tdr-J B bitlenl peninsula will at .' rith i k naif do.en lltjtla nation.: r'. - ring I In friendship and ro-Operction Wli.nl lii- tvroujrh- thl- Skillfully arranged marriages be-tv.cen be-tv.cen mi-iv'.. : I5l!.::a . '1 'an- Behind many of them can be -een the hand of iueei Marie Rumania, world's mbyt skilled 1 matchmaker. MOST VRE io EM Most of ih-fe marriage love-loss. love-loss. In ruany cases :"' princesses eyiesrned htvc forced to glv l up otlucfl ihuy But they have followed tne ancient ; royal practice o (sacrifk'iutf on the altar of dlpldmatic e.pJ-len'.:y. marriages already have -mv place while three others scheduled to uke place soon. Crown Prince Carol of Rumania son of King Ferdinand Princess Helen of M u I. Princess laUzabcth of was mnrTled to Crow i Prince of Greece, In February. QI'EKX BKWXD Queen Marie's hind both these diplomatic significance casllj Hl when Crown Prince H King of Rumania a Greek queen will H sit beside him, whir?1 when Prin H? George takes the Greek throne he will have a Rumanian Ueen. H That meant thai Ro Greece will bo closely bound io?eth- r : H and friction between them will he hlRhly lmprob.iii'i- B Here arc three more Hl who probably will bo H! Klnp Alexander of lujolavia and Hi Prlnce.-s Marie of Rumania. Their Hll .ngap mont .iris- Y i r H nounced. Crown Prince Christian Fr li of Denmark and Princesa 0 of Klnp Constantlne o1' Gr. i HI) erujapenjent BiSO has Hb announced. B- Kinp Boris of Bulgaria und rr'.n- H cess Tolanda of Italy Thh ensai B ment has been persistently rut "Orel H'. but lacks official confirmation. WHAT IT MI Ws H If these three marrlapes take place H It will mean: H That the Rumanian royal houec 1 will have etrenpihened Itself by form- lngr a little Haitian entente of Rou-B Rou-B mania. Greerc- and Ji;-ro-l H most powerful Balkan nations. B That Bulgaria'. Balkan outcast, will B naturally beeom' the ally 1,1 Italy, B great power with a tremendous Bal- V knn Influence J That Greece will have secured H the support of one of the strong Vm Scandinavian powers. i THRONE I N STABLE BBJ ! Princess 'Marie dl Kurn.mia. when BBVJ ; she becomes the bride of Klni; Alex BBBs ; ander of Jugoslavia, will mount one j BBSi; ' tnc most unstable throm- of BBBjij Europe and will be the queen of 1 BBBji "the most-shot -at king in Europe' BBBj Alexander was the target of bomb BBS in 1917, 1919 and 1929. His t BBVj continually soupht by supporters of BBBj another Jugoslavian royal line as BBVJ well as by anarchists and syinpathlx- BBBJ cjs with extreme political factions BBBJ Alexander is said to have had -on.- BBVa cieat love in his past life. He HBVk enamored of the Russian Prkieess BBBs Tltlana who was murdered with the HJI czar and his famil