New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1919, Page 17

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1919 sK SIX LITTLE NATIONS > ST | Drawn Out ol Century Long Isolation by War _ The six little nations hidden away in Europe which have clung to their independence so sturdily {hrough many centuries, Luxemburg, Andorra Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monac and Moresnet. were drawn out of the age-long is now, according to Archer P. Whallon, who w about them in an articie called “Nations That Never Grew Up,’” in the St. Nicholas, they are likely to be pped about by the peace con- ferees before the map of Europe is finally settled. Mr. Whallon’s notes on these six little nations run in part as follows i “Luxemburg is not very large, : s0, having an in other wo more three-fou of Rhode Island. It ha: n of 250,000 Its iron min 5 ce of its wealth and employment for | 8,000 people. steel mills and ! foundries have an annus roduction | to the value o 8,000,000 | v of Luxemburg, its 1 constitut 1l mon- ! , the present ruler being the ! d Duchess Charlotte. | ext in extent of territory comes the republic of Andorra, with square miles nestling up among the | Pyrences, between the French depart- ment of Ar nd the Spanish prov- ince of Lerid This le nation has a population of abou 00. Its exceu- tive authority, two ‘vigniers’, are ap- pointed one by a Spanish bishop and the other by France. 7 “The principality of Liechtenstein, next in order, is but little more than a third of Andorra, having an juare miles, The popula- iven at over 9,600, Liechten- 11 miles long and from 1,200 miles It is a moun- ey be nd and strian p 2 z00ds = Liechtenstein independent s 719 “On the allies' side of the fight, just where the oldest republic in the world should be expected to be, is San Marino. 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