The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-20
Relation OF Foreign Powers to
Russia's Crisis.

Three incidents which occurred on
Monday show how impossible it is for
the international relations of European
Powers not to be affected seriously by
the events taking place in Russia. The
German Emperor went to see Chancellor
Won BUELow, who, in the hope Of eco
ering his health, is sojourning On an
island in the North Sea. From this
visit and a preceding one made to the
same island by Foreign Minister Won
TsCHIRsCHKY, it is reasonably inferred
that WILLIAM II. desired to confer with
a trusted adviser concerning his APP
preaching meeting with the Car. On
the same evening in the House Of Com
mons, Labor members questioned For
eign Secretary GREY as to whether the
Government had made representations
to Russia in reference to the treatment
Of Russian people by officials before
sending a feet to Cronstadt. Another
demonstration provoked by the massacre
of Jews at Bielostok was the request
made to the Foreign Secretary by Lord
RoTHsCHILD, Sir SAMUEL MoNTAGU and
other Hebrew financiers that some steps
should be taken to avert the recurrence
OF such atrocities. Subsequently Sir
SAMUEL in an interview said that be-
fore the last Russian loan was issued all
Jewish bankers, except a few renegades
who put money before religion, had
been prevailed upon to refrain from
subscribing. He expressed a hope that
no Hebrew %inanciers will lend another
ruble to Russia until equal rights are
granted to her Jewish subjects. :
1t is plain, then, how intimately Eu-
ropes international situation is related
to the existing political crisis at st.
Petersburg, British public opinion.
shocked by the Cars barbarous treat
ment of his Jewish subjects, a treatment
worse than the atrocities to which the
Bulgarians were exposed at the hands
of their Turkish masters, will scarcely
permit Sir EDWARD GREY to consum-
mate that friendly understanding be-
tween England and Russia by which
their respective spheres Of influence in
Asia were to be delimited, and OF which
the prospective visit Of a British feet to
Cronstadt was to be an impressive proof.
On the other hand, the French Republic
is likely to find itself placed in a very
awkward predicament when a few
months hence the Russian Government
requests a further loan, which for many
reasons French fnanciers will not be
able to recommend to their fellow citi-
zens. In the first place, the French
peasant has put too many eggs in the
Russian basket. In the second place,
there fingers scarcely a trace of the hope
cherished two months ago that a peace
full transition might be effected between
the autocracy and a constitutional polity.
In the third place, the Duma has not yet
pledged the national credit to the last
and every preceding loan made by the
st. Petersburg Government, and it can
hardly be expected to do so in view of
the fact that a part Of the money recently
advanced has been used by the Gar in
defeating the wishes Of his people. In
the fourth and decisive place, it should
prove impossible to add any considerable
amount to Russia's outstanding obliga-
tons, in the teeth of the obstruction
which any effort in that direction is Ger
tain to encounter from Hebrew f~nanciers
throughout the world. 1t should be
remembered that precautions have al
ready been taken against an act of in
solvency on Russia's part by withhold
ing enough of the latest loan to provide
for the interest on preceding advances
for a considerable period. 1t would be
an act Of %stupendous folly for the cos
mopolitan bankers who have been sus-
tanning the st. Petersburg Government
to go on equipping the Gar with funds
VIGOROUSLY destined to stiie the outcries
Of his deceived and Infatuated subjects,
for they would thus render inevitable
the Reputation Of their claims at the
hands Of the Russian people when they