GERMANY: In Protest

The Government protested to the Council of Ambassadors against the action of the Rhineland Commission abolishing the office of German High Commissioner for the Rhineland, held by Prince von Hatzfeld. The communication asserts that the Supreme Council created the office and recognized the Prince, and that therefore the Rhineland Commission had no power to act.

An interesting note in The Philadelphia Public Ledger says that Prince von Hatzfeld is half American by the ” marriage of his mother, Helene Moulton, to Count Hatzfeld, later German Ambassador in London, in 1863.” Prince Hatzfeld acquired his present title plus Serene Highness through the death of an uncle, ” and his two sisters moved up a stage in the court hierarchy and enrolled themselves in the second section of the Gotha (German Who’s Who) among members of the reigning families by espousing Princes Friedrich Karl and Max Hohenlohe, thereby obtaining the privilege of addressing royalty as ‘lieber vetter’ with the familiar ‘du’.”