Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-06
BALKANS MAY BE
SWEPT ASIDE BY
BALTIC PROBLEM
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big game TO them, and that is part
of it.
These intriguers are not by any
means sure they are through with
Lenine. OF course they have no graft
tude or they would at least feel friend
ly toward him. For he has broken
Russia down to such point that their
future plans of empire are made easy
One Set Pitted Against other.
The GOODNESS. the steely mentality
Of these German intriguers is almost
admirable. For they are turning
around again now and using one set
of their creatures against the other.
On one side are the Baltic barons,
who broken Russia down sufficiently
to let in the thoroughly disintegrating
influence of Lenine, throug~. whom
Russia was thoroughly dsintegrated.
Now the Baltic barons, under German
direction. purpose to put down the
Bolsheviki and construct out of this
disintegrated Russian mass what the
Germans have wanted all the time
When these German intriguers, to
whom the fall of cars and kaisers
are but incidents, read how some peo-
pie want TO try Wilhelm II, and how
some other people cannot speak of
Lenine and Trotzky without throwing
little "heart' into their voice, they
must smile gently in their sleeves
They have neither rancor nor heart,
and people who have are simply use
full to them If we would only be so
kind as to make a martyr out of the
ex-kaiser, or If we would only conceal
the ruin Lenine has made of Russia,
we should play right into their hands.
These intriguers do not look upon
events specifically, as most people
do They go back to the fundamental.
They were able to get an important
influence in the Russian court because
the RaItic barons were important per-
sonages. They were descendants OF
the German knights who Christianized
the heather Let's Estonians, etc. AS
a class they continue to exist. Their
number can be increased Think OF
what a controlling influence they can
get if they increase the German popu-
lation in the Baltic to five or ten times
greater than it was before the war
With them Germany could control the
Russian masses
TO these same astute gentlemen
mass movement is very useful ~
must give them pleasure to see pres
ent-day would-b be- sociologist with
political mission run his hands
through his HAIR and talk about mass
movement" They know who started
the mass movement in RUSSIA,
They are in no hurry. They do not
have to win tomorrow. In fact, the
longer Lenlne holds out, the worse
Russia's condition becomes, the better
it is for them.
"BIank Generation Planned.
From a German source, one of those
very suspect sources which pretend
to be terribly anti i5olshevik, l learn
that the Bolsheviki have decided upon
creating BLANK generation i'll Rus
STA. they do not want the children
educated, they want to destroy all
there was of Russian art, science ana
| civilizations to destroy Russian
| thought and Russian influence, to cut
| the country completely off from It's
| past My informant emphasized that
| the Bolsheviki considered this very
useful for the propagatlng OF thelf
! ideas; it is equally useful to Ger
many S imperial plans.
! So far nave tried to give the larger
point of view of the German intriguers
! because it comes first with them NOW
for the immediate and practical, the
! story of what is going on III the coun-
| Try at this moment For the action OF
| the day fits in with the background
have just given
/ TO begin with, Germany is coloniz-
| ing the Baltic provinces, colonizing
with blood and iron" in the good OLD
way Its colonists go with rifles, and
take and hold. They go east to make
homes for themselves Thus their in
! terest and the interest of Germany in
them is vital. The German troops LETT
| there all these months at the Dehest
of the peace conference are interested
! in their welfare, are one with them
| and intend to stay with them. There IS
no way of shaking them off.
The Actual Situation.
This is also part of the old story.
For centuries the Prussians have been
pushing up this way. Now that 1t is
almost the only outlet for the sur
plus German population, 1t is bound
to continue, so there is no use, even
no reason to quarrel with 1t as MI
grafton. But the advantage the Ger
man intriguers are taking of this MI
grafton needs to be watched
There are three armies up this way
| WhlCn are IeCelNlHS Soi9t"'N 80
| OF German soldiers, German guns
and ammunition the Lithuanian
army, and the armies of Count Keller
and Prince Leven In all these armies
the German field gray is the usual
uniform and a very large percentage
of the soldiers and officers wnar the
iron cross. For the human material
I that has come from Germany is excel
1 lent, some of the best soldiers Ger
many has produced. 1t takes better
! men than one might thing to carry on
I guerrilla warfare against the Boishe-
! Wiki. To be captured means. for one
/ thing, very unpleasant death SO
the men who have come here are SOL
l diers by nature.
Aside from cleaning up locally they
have not pushed the Bolshevikl. Ihey