The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-23
Says There is No Legal Gov
eminent in Persia Today
AND HE HITS AT ENGLAND
Shuster Declared That England Will Do
Anything That Russia Says and He
Can't See Why England Should
Be Such Craven.

New York, Feb. 23.-W. Morgan Shns-
| ter, the American who was formerly
treasurer general of Persia, returned on
the North German Lloyd steamship
George Washington, which very appro-
priately arrived ON Washington's birth
day. Mr.. Shuster was met at quaran-
tine by II. H. Topskyan, the Persian
consul general here, who greeted him
very effusively and said he hoped to
be able to entertain him in New York.
Mr.. Shuster was surrounded by inter-
viewers in the music room of the steam
ship as she moved up from quarantine
to Hoboken. He was quite willing to
talk about the Persian trouble and was
very indignant at the powers assumed
in the case by England and Russia.
There is no legal government in Per-
sill to-day" said Mr.. Shuster, "The
Russian and British legations WELD SOW
ereignty over Persia to-day. | do not
believe that Americans realize this. The
government lies ostensibly in the hands
OF seven men who are the remains of
the old Persian parliament. But the
Russian and British legations are the
real rulers.
England win do anything that Rus
STA says" One of the interviewers inter
rupted to ask; "Why should England
be craven before discredited power
like Russia 7"
Mr.. Shuster intimated that it was be-
cause of the power of Germany over
Russia and the unwillingness of Eng
land to antagonize Germany at this time.
He said; My eyes have been opened in
England When an English business
man walks down the Strand his knees
knock together If he hears the name
Germany mentioned"
Speaking of the appointment of his
successor, NJ. Mornard, the Belgian. now
in charge of the financial workings of
the Persian government, Mr.. Shuster
said that he did not believe that Rus
sia intended to put the Persian finan
cial system ON a sound basis. He said:
"Mornard is "a Russian tool. / don't
know what such man will do with
the accounts. Persia did not want him
and the English government did not
want him but Russia put him in
Mr.. Shuster was accompanied by his
wife and two little daughters, Caroline
and Lite.
When the George Washington reached
quarantine Mr.. Shuster made the fol-
lowing statement:
Il am more than glad to get home
again. | have been away less than
year, but the time seems much longer.
] was particularly pleased with the re-
ception given me in London, and | left |
there more than ever confirmed in my !
original belief that the British people |
have little sympathy with the immoral |
and disastrous foreign policy Of their |
present government.
The past year has witnessed three |
acts of international brigandage. each |
by Christian nations against |
and each more shocking |
to the accepted principle Of humanity |
and justice than the preceding one.
Compared to the cynical brutality with |
which the, Persians have been treated
even the Tripolitan outrage pales.
'The Russian government had not a
single spark Of justification in either
law. morals or fact for its barbaric
,ruelty toward the Persian people and
The British government must be judged
BY its aequiescence in the acts of its
partner in crime.
England dealt civilization and prog
-ess a foul blow when she set to work
10 create strong Russia after the Jap
,nese war The British people are be-
ginning to realize this now, and they
Till see it still more clearly in the next
,en years,
ain its endeaxor to outpoint Ger
many in the European diplomatic game,
he British foreign office has paid a
tiff price for something which will new
# be delivered Russian support against
germany. The eyes of the British for
ign secretary have been so glued on
europe for the past few years that he
las completely overlooked the British
mpire in Asia. One result is that there
: no longer buffer state between
russia and the Indo- Persian frontier.
Another is that T2,000,000 Mohamme-
ans in India have so far changed their
ceilings toward England as to no long
r be an offset to Hindu agitations. An
ther result is that Englandf has lost
este as the friend and helper of strug
ling peoples, and this outward manifes
alton OF national prestige is being felt
mong all classes of the British people