The Washington herald., 1919-06-01

lost en- route, but the little man
Kim. came by way of Suez on q
French passport-having been born
conveniently under the French naS-
and he sat up in his little attic over
looking Paris. considering the four
principles and the fourteen points
and wondering at the injustice Of
the gods. In the meantime out in
Korea thousands and thousands Of
other little men under black para
soils. waving white fans. were march
ing into Japanese machine gunA and
being whipped and tortured by the
thousands Just 70 give this nttle
shrimp Of a man face for his Job.
Such is the idealism of the untutored
child OF the East.
Fighting I'm Morocco.
There is fighting in Morocco. and
there is trouble-or has been. for n
has been settled in the good. old
fashioned wsy-along the north coast
Of Africa Tho Georgians also have
rebelled against their masters. Riots
In China indicate that she too, mis-
understands point No 8, Of the four
teen points, which reads:
"A free. open-minded and absolute
ly impartial adjustment OF all colo
nial claims. based upon a strict OBJ
servance OF the principle that in de-
termining all such questions of SOW
ereignty the interests OF the popula-
tions concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
the government whose title is to be
determined
Armenia is begging at our door
that We take a mandate over the
outpost of Christianity in the East.
and the unspeakable Turks have also
started a revolt against the British
and French.
And here is the curious part OF it.
and perhaps the only dangerous part
of these revolutionary phenomena:
/ The Egyptian and Turkish ministers
have been received and accredited at
Budapest BY the time this letter
reaches print there may be a gath
ering OF the outlaw MISUNDERSTANDING
Ireland-in the council Of Moscow
The Bolsf.viks are recoEnizinE
this principle Of Self-deteruinatior
and il is not entirely impossi bic that
: Germany and Bolshevik Russia NAV
not gather in all these tnr, ads Of
discomfort and try to patch out a
sort of alliance Of the worlds Ish-
maels 10 fight the recognized pow
o
well worth considering. Budapest
I is as Bolshevik as Moscow. and Il
/ is but a short step from Bala Rowan
to Lenine!
Russia I'm Hands of BoIkhevtsts-
In this connection il must be re-
membered that the terror is over in
Russia; that the Bolshevik troops
are steadily winning in the South
whore the great oil fields are and
whore the wheat is ripening by the
millions of acres. Also food from
the allies is coming into Moscow
under the control OF the Scandinav-
I ian neutrals directed by Nansen.
The Bolsheviks have overcome the
anarchists who threatened to run
things in Russia last year, and the
Mensheviks are getting stronger
and stronger in Russian councils.
Bolshevism is becoming conserva-
I tive. But IL still means Bolshevism
it still means revolution the over
throw not so much OF government
as il means the overthrow OF in
dustrial order and the establish
ment OF tyranny OF the proletariat-
The little peoples Of the world who
are playing bean bag with the dyna-
mite of President wilson's fourteen
points and four great principles are
mostly proletariat anyway. They
have no middle classes. They are
not at the age of economic discre-
tion. They aspire to liberty: but
they understand only license. II is.
of course. foolish to prophecy. But
here between the forces Of proletar-
lat Bolshevism. becoming somewhat
conservative in power and the lit
tie people Of the world. is a natural
alliance. II would add power to
each. and unrestraint to both. And
if the alliance should be forced
what an immortal snap it would be
for the Irish.