'Ware Hohenzollerns!

Belgians remember with shivers the remorseless tramp, tramp of Kaiser Wilhelm's field-grey hordes, the death-belching thunder of Hohenzollern guns. One night last week the Belgian Cabinet sat up late, heard its veteran Foreign Minister, far-sighted Paul Hymans, fire a broadside of warnings.

"Restoration of the monarchy in Germany," charged M. Hymans, "is not merely a question of time. It is imminent. There is now delay only because of disagreement between the former Kaiser s sons and former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria as to how restoration should take place."

Thus small Belgium sounded the first official tocsin against German monarchists whose activity revived as soon as President von Hindenburg called into being the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). Cartoons for and against the Hohenzollerns are printed almost daily in German papers of all sorts. But among the monarchists there are indeed grave "disagreements." Most monarchists are content to wait for a sudden, national emergency, such as the death of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg. They would then push forward "as a stabilizing influence" a Hohenzollern-- not as Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria, where monarchist heads are hottest, the populace already hail 63-year-old Rupprecht of Wittlesbach as "Your Majesty'' and will certainly insist that he be made Regent of BaVaria if a Hohenzollern becomes German Regent. Rupprecht, a good fellow despite his stern exterior, used to joke at continued Bavarian loyalty to himself when the Republic was first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans you are!'' Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage of his "subjects." Beside him rides "Her Majesty," Antoinette of Luxembourg and of Nassau, who was 21 when he married her in 1921. has borne him five children. The "Crown Prince'' is 27-year-old Albrecht, only child of Rupprecht's late first wife.

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