KNIGHT OF 75 WEDS GIRL OF 22

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3681, 16 November 1912, Page 10

KNIGHT OF 75 WEDS GIRL OF 22

SIR, MAX AVAL CUTER,’S' DREAM OF A 'UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

INTERVIEWER OF KINGS

Two years after Ills first wife’s death, the veteran Anglo-German knight, Sir Alax Waechter, has at the ago of 75 re-embarked on tho sea of matrimony, his bride being a pretty girl of 22, Miss Annatrude Hobart, oidy child of the late Colonel Bertie Hobart, and of Airs Hobart, of Grimston Garth, Hull. The ceremony was celebrated at St. Peter’s. Eaton Square, London. The bridegroom, who wore a sprig of white heather in the buttonhole of his grey morning coat, made the responses in a voice which could be heard’ distinctly all over the church, but the bride’s words were scarcely audible. Only a few relatives wore present, and Major Sir Francis Trippol acted as best man. There was no reception, the pair leaving for a honeymoon on the Continent soon after the ceremony. Sir Afax married in 1373 the daughter of Air. Thomas Cave, ALP., of Richmond, and a sister of Air. George Cave, K.C., M.P. The lady died in November, 1910. Sir Alax Waechter is the chairman of Alessrs Bossier, Waechter, and Co., the shipping firm, and son of the late Air. Julius L. Waechter, of Stettin. He became a naturalised British subject in 1865, and was made a Knight Bachelor in 1902, in which year he was High Shefiff of Surrey. BRIDEGROOM’S GREAT SCHEME.

With the exception, perhaps, of the late Air. W. T. -Stead, no one has interviewed more crowned heads and famous statesmen than Sir Alax 'Waechter. He spent large sums to further his idealistic project of a Federated Europe. A pioneer in the international peace movement. Sir Max is convinced that a sort of United vStates of Europe is the one and only remedy for national jealousies, crushing armaments, unemployment, tariff wars, and other disturbing factors. So like a knight errant, he set out three or four years ago on a tour all over Europe to enlist the interest of sovereigns and statesmen in his plan of “one continent, one tariff.” Although his crusade has not since brought forth any practical results, his mission met with a remarkably sympathetic reception at the time. On his return he declared that, as the result of personal interviews, he had won the approval of the Kaiser, the Kings of Italy, Sweden. Norway, Denmark, Belgium, and Portugal, as well as such notable statesmen as Prince Bulow, AI. Pichon. Herr von Sohoen. AT. Kossuth. Baron d'Aehrcnthal. and the Young Turk leaders. It was a Napoleonic scheme that Sir Alax Waechter mapped out. There was to lie a European Federal Council, which would be the common Foreign Office and the commander of the European army and navy—.so mu-h of the existing forces as was needed for the defence of Eurojie. The countries in the federation were to have free trade between their ports, or something approaching that condition and as an economic unit the Old World would stand a fair chance in competition with the New World, or with the still older world of the Far East.