Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-19

in his thirty-seventh year, 1897. he
was appointed Minister OF Education IN
tho Giolitti Cnhine. of 1908. Minister
In tho Salandra Cabinet OF 1914, and
IN tho Bosclli coalition ministry or
1915 BECAME Minister OF the Interior.
months later made change impera-
tive. all lsaly hailed Orlando's call to
the premiership as the advent of
safe and strong man. AS the sue
cessful pilot OF his country through
her darkest hours since her unity was
achieved, and to complete victory his
place in world as well as italian
history is secure.
TO Eleutherios yenizeios., Crctan
lawyer aud revolutionist. belong the
double distinction of rcuniting his ma
all Greece from the stain put upon 1t
by it's Gcrmaniaed King in treating
it's solemn treaty engagements as a
sometime som . Premier ' OF Roumanin. has
left it on formal record that Nenize-
loss conduct has always JUSTIFIED, his
Christian name which may be !airly
translated protector OF freedom.
Venizelos saw, from the beginning
what were the real issues of the world
war, and sought to align Greece with
France and England to which Greece
owed her very existence. But as Ser
ba had at first beaten off the Aus
TRANS. the Gcrmanized King Constan-
tine, whose wife WAS William liohen-
keep Greece in a craven neutrality
When Bulgaria Joined the Huns neu-
trality was no longer possible with
hohor. for Greece had Solemnly en-
gagged to aid Serbia il attacked by
Bulga ria. German corruption, acting
through the traitorous King, drove
Nenizelos from Office in 1915. but not
before he had sanctioned the landing
of the allies at Snloniki.
Against the King and his corruption
of the army. to the point where 4
4. atss. IL
to the Germans Ncni.clos appealed to
the people. rni risked the penalties
Of open rebellion. With the enforced
lbdication OF Constantine in June. 1917.
put Greece on the side of her real
friends and the forces of civilization.
The Greek army had been dsmoralizcd
and the funds that Shout! have
equipped it used for political corrup-
ton. Thanks To the energy of Vent
zolos' and the aid given by the allies
900 Greeks Joined General ,d'ESpercy
in time for the campaign of 1918 that
put Bulgaria out Of the war, drove
tho Huns across the Danube and freed
Serbia.
BEGAN AN BLACKSMITH;
BECAME COLLEGE PROFESSOR
Born in 1850, Thomas Masaryk has
worked with both head and hands
Apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade
he learned 1t, and left it to win higher
twenty, nine, he left the certain
~ Of learned ease TO join in the
or un-Gcrmanized University of Prague.
Elected to the Austrian Parliament in
1891, he resigned in 1S?S To devote
own people. Elected again in 1907. lie
laborcd for = program that might have
saved its throne To the iapsburg dy
nasty through real federation Of Aus
y ~ Al4N.
constitutional instead OF dcspotic
ruler.
His opposition to Tho niratical at
tack upon Serbia with which the world
war opened led TO his arrest for trca-
son. ne had many fr!ends in Amer
lea. both as scientist and through
personal relations, for he had taken
Wife from this country. had relatives in
been student of unusual distinction
at the University Of Chicago. The
United States interviewed to procure his
release, as II did later 10 prevent the
against Whom the only real charge was
tina, Of being her fathers child.
-, fsrm emitted 70 go into exile in Italy;
himself to the organization or Czech
Slovaks and allied Slavic victims of
German: :laGyar and Germanizcd Rus
s!an Official oppression throughout the
world. The collapse OF Imperial Rus
sin and the German corruption. Of Boil
shcvik Russia gave him an opportunity
10 direct war against the Hun with
swords as well as with words.
Meanwhile he had been laboring to
impress upon the leading minds of all
the allied free nations that only
through assurance OF justice and free
dom 10 all the subject races OF Eastern
Europe could the menace OF the Hun
nc certainly and forever ended. For
the Hun had not shown--and has not
yet shown-,he slightest sign of re-
pentpncc for his crimes
The way 10 make sure OF perpetual
safety Of civilization from the Hun"
an the burden OF Masaryk's argument.
lis to put round the Hun n Slavic ring