The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
In e-Limelight
By George Perry MorriA

By George Perry NorriA
The ofncial leader Of the North
ern Baptists during the coming
year viii be Ernest L Tusttn, d.
rector Of public Welfare. Phfladel-
phia. a lawyer by profeasion With
Bucknell University and University
Of PennsyIvania degrees. For thir-
ty-five years he has held important
denominationai positions I'm Penn
sylvania, and now crowns his career
with the highest honor that can
come to one Of his sect
There have been few figures in
contemporary history as tragic In
their last years as Nine. Breskov-
sky, grandmother OF the Russian
revolution" who has seen the courau
Of national history take a turn
revolving to her sense Of honor and
opposed to her theories OF home
rule based on British and American
rather than French revolutionary
methods. Her last visit to this
country brought her some comfort
from old and tried friends. but also
insults and jeers from radicals. Her
whereabouts since she left US have
not been heralded far and wide. for
variety of reasons. A Whining
ton Quaker doing relief work m
Czecho-Slovakia tells of finding her
comparatively recently in Uzhorod.
capital OF the new Ruthenian state
which has autonomy under the
CZecho Slovakia republic. He
dweIs on her keenness of mind and
her abiding faith in Russia and its
democracy, notwithstanding the
treatment she has had from the
Communist rulers of the hour.
One Of the many English journal
lists and authors visiting this coun-
try this season is II. w. Nevinson-
who is now in Washington sounding
out political and social conditions.
He is OF that type OF British uni
yersity-bred men who, IL they do
not go into the civil service and
become representatives of the en-
pire in distant lands. go on ION
their own" explore the earth, be-
come Investigators of the complex
tiles OF, foreign politics, exposers of
wrong done to natives in exploited
regions, etc Coincident with this
they acquire data to be made into
books of travel defenses of funds-
mental human rights. analyses Of
the military tactics OF armies, and
interpretations OF the characters and
policies of statesmen, European.
Asiatic and Afican. OF late they
have been coming to the United
States. since we will insist in being
an International factor.
Take Mr.. Nevinson's case. for in
Qt "A
spondent in every important war.
save one, since 1897. He went out
for the Daily Chronicle to cover
the Greco-Turkish war. He missed
the Japanese Russian war only be-
cause at the time he was in the
heart of Africa. One of his finest
pieces of humanitarian journalism
was his expose of the Portugese
slave trade in Angola. He knew
old Russia as few Britons did. AL
bania, Bulgaria and Serbia. past and
present. he has studied through and
through. During the past war he
saw the Inflated expedition of the
Dardanelles come and go. and was
wounded in the fighting at Scimitar
Bay.
Later he was stationed in Salon
ika and Egypt. One of the earliest
OF the contributors to The Nation.
he has steadily fought imperialism
and modern British Philistinism.
Born and trained in the older Brit
ish Liberalism. he now repudiates
| Lloyd George: he has no hope in
AsQuith. and drifts steadily toward
alliance with the Labor party and
looks for its relatively near call
to control of the British govern
ment.
The collapse of the interchurch
movement. now officially admitted.
was preceded by the announcement
that DR.. S. Earl Taylor, secre-
tRry of the Board OF Foreign Mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal
! Church North. had been given u
! years leave of absence to recover
| his health. More than any other
men he was influential in devising
/ this gradiose scheme that has not
been without its aid to the treas
uries OF some of the denominations,
but that has finally gone on the
/ rocks, owing to the refusal of large
denominations like the Baptists and
! Presbyterians of the North to con-
| tinue their alliance with ii or be
partners in underwriting it. What
| with his labors in his own respon-
sible position in the Methodist
Church and his executive duties in
| connection with the interchurch
movement he has defied nature.
and she does not make exceptions
in her come backs" even for pro-
moters OF vast religious propaganda
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