The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-10-21
After Lenin Will 1t Be Wrangel?
And After Wrangel WHAT Interesting to the World.

The latest suggestion from Russia is that Baron
Wrangel viii conquer Boshevism and make himself ruler,
which, of course means Emperor of Russia
If Russia is to have another Empire instead of Re
public and that is improbable Wrange perhaps, would
do well anybody else. His photographs make him
look like combination of Ivan the Terrible and the late
Senator McCarTen of Brooklyn e. ,.ts
If Lenn's government should fall and Wrangel
tabsh himself in the Winter Palace there would follow,
necessarily series of killings that would make the per
formance of Ivan and Peter and the French revolution
seem tame.
The execution of fifty thousand ntelectuals the carry
ing out of "pogroms" scale hitherto undreamed OF
the shooting of twenty thirty thousand officers and
of the Soviet army would probably cripple Boshevism
for awhile
Then what? How would the hundred and eighty mil
lion Russians be governed? What would be done in
hundred thousand Russian villages upon receipt Of
that the peasants must give up the land obtained from
Bolshevism and return it to the former owners?
Do the French imagine that if they put Wrangel
the Muscovte throne he would be able to pay them tn
thirty thousand million francs that Frenchmen fooishl
lent to the Emperor?
If SO, they are mistaken They cannot get thirt,
thousand million quarts of blood out of stone, and
thorough tyranny and remorseles executions coul
extract thirty thousand million francs from Russia
If the Lenn government should last, and develop int
permanent government that would be the miracle Of tn
ages So far revolution has lasted Each falls
then comes back in changed form, and modified form
of the old system takes the place Lenns government
falls whatever hope there is of order in Russia and Of
maintaining Russia as a nation falls with it.
Count White, negotiating peace with Japan in this
country said to this writer The remarkable thing in
Russia is not that have IMPERFECT government,
but that we have ANY government
He said also that if the Cars government should fall
government could take it's place And barring Lenin
he probably was right
Among business men, when firm is the edge of
failure bank tottering the brink other firms come
to the and try to prevent cataclysm
Among nations when they happen not to like govern
nen the idea is to help along the catacysm and force
convulsion
It would probably pay the nations of Europe better
if they would support and encourage Russia in her effort
to get her feet letting the Russians decide their own
kind of government and select their own leader.
Lloyd George the intelligent Welshman knows that,
and would do it if he could.
But bondholders in France autocrats and nanciers in
this country will probably prove too strong for Lloyd
Georges common
Wrangel may try to mount the Russian throne tor
while and while the threats of Russians until
one of them his throat After that period OF chaos
that will healthy for the world Any kind of stable
Russian would be better for other nations than
no Russian government One hundred and eighty million
people running wild would not help world reconstruction