The vexed question of the Brunswick Regency has been temporarily
resettled by the unanimous election of Duke John Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Bren months ago, on the death of the late Regent, Prince Albrecht of Prussia, the claims of the Duke of Cumberland, the legitimate heir to the duchy of Brunswick, again assumed urgency. But as he refused to surrender his claim to the former kingdom of Hanover, all attempts at a compromise failed. The new Regent, who is in his fiftieth year, is the third son of the late Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, and from 1897 to 1901 held the Regency of that duchy during the minority of his nephew, the present reigning Grand Duke. He is an active supporter of German colonial expansion, and has been president of the Colonial Society since 1895. There was undoubtedly a strong feeling in Brunswick in favour of the Duke of Cumberland, but the fact that the new Regent was unanimously elected by the Diet makes it clear that the conditions he imposed were regarded as impracticable.
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