New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

with certain highly distin-
guished persons, who, as rule, prefer to
pose as somebody else. The prince and
the knave rub shoulders, mingling in
that dusky though rarifed world of po-
litical intrigue, altering scenes, motives
and ideals in such a liberal and indis-
criminate fashion that sometimes it is
difficult to believe that the knave is real
ly living up to his reputation. Perhaps
the prince is the greater knave, after all.
But in one respect the princes are al
ways princely They throw gold about
them as certain Grecian gentleman
once tossed dragons teeth, with equally
happy results; for soldiers of arson and
plumber spring up in most gratifying
manner-and prod nation into a burn
ing pit of treachery and torment, which
is exactly what was expected of them.
1t is a story of the biggest and most
stupendously criminal piece of bribery
we have yet to see. So you can guess
who did the bribing
1t is the fashion, and not always SO
praiseworthy, to sheer at the plumbers
of German diplomacy, to scott at the
Teuton ignorance of human nature, ex-
planning that stupidity was the cause for
every failure. Thus we are apt to for
uof hot 81, ,4,,
pid. Far from it, unfortunately. An
intelligence department made up of
some of the most brilliant, highly
trained and specialized men and women
in the world, charmingly hammered,
charmingly and Systematically educated,
men and women of undoubted bravery
whom nothing could turn aside from
their purpose, least Of all dictates of
humanity and honor, such persons as
these do not always make mistakes.
Their judgments are not always wrong
Given a little good luck they are apt to
go long way, very long way indeed.
The Princess's
Warning
In this story, for instance, they tried
a little futtsr in the Russian situation.
Let us join with Princess Catherine
Radziwil and give them credit The Ger
man secret service played great game.
The German secret service did more than
live up to its greatest traditions. 1t won,
nd yy;nninr -
Bolshevism-which, incidentally, is the
title of the Princess's Forthcoming book
even into the dooryards of the Father
land. No, it is not a pleasant story, this
history that Princess Radziwill has writ
ten, but this does not imply that it is not
entertaining. Through it's pages run
some of the most grotesque and terrible
but withal remarkable figures of mod
ern history, all Of whom the author, with
her gift for easily flowing and slightly
ironic narrative and her keen insight
into character and values, endows with
a lively reality such as our modern
chroniclers must envy. And her story,
like all good stories, has it's moral,
very useful one, it happens; though the
"tirebrand," strangely enough, deals
with the most colossal immoralties.
Let us skip these for the moment and
go to the end and read the moral first:
"If could look into the hearts of the
Germans to-day we should find that they
are already thinking of the time when it
VIII become possible to start, perhaps in
different h.
just used, that conquest of the world which
they have been expecting for so many long
years. The difference will consist in the
means by which this conquest is to be eff
fected If Bolshevism is not interfered
WIN IL WIN become the new army and the
ne" world with which our old culture will
once more be attacked. 1t is useless to
nurse illusions on this point. German So
eiaiism is absolutely different from French
English or American socialism, and it will
De the weapon of the next war GERMANY
declares on civilization. Already the Rus
sian Boisheviki are talking of the day when
with the completely Of German anarchism
they will rule the world. And German am
archism stands ready to take the hand ne
their Siav brothers who became ;mbued
with its pernicious doctrines and were Iuckv
enough to put them into execution before
II had the courage and the opportunity to
air them itself,
Therefore we must not allow ourselves TO
think that the war which Germany fought
against the civilized world In at an end
Its military attempt to conquer has failed
ignominiously, but the social side, which
may prove difficult to subdue, has not be-
gun
Bolsheyism WAS not made in Germany
but 1t was made active entirely by Ger
man currency. The men who financed
II and wrote the acts Of that dark trag-