Foreign News: Family Finances

Old Wilhelm, proud head of the House of Hohenzollern, called his five sons home last week. Up the curving carriage drive of the staid villa at Doom in Holland most of them came—ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm ("Auwi"). Old Wilhelm talked plainly. He had summoned them because the excitement of his 75th birthday had passed and he was feeling old. When, as and if he died, he wanted certain dignities at his funeral. He was not well. What of the House? What of that long lost country and that long...

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