The Washington times., 1920-08-04


serbia had recuperated her strength,
, chose to make the
SsraJevo assassination the preteNt
Tor once more putting Serbia In
chains and barring her from the exit
TO the sea which she had so Ions and
30 Justly demanded.
TURN HOSE ON SPARK.
Without an Agadir. no Tripolis;
without Tripolis, no Balkan league;
and Without a Balkan war. no Magyar
determination ito rnish Serbia"
All OF which goes to prove once
more that we should turn our nre
hose upon the frst spark OF the con-
hagrstion. instead of waiting until
the entire building IL In flames.
Today the 'dea OF world domination
has withered. together with other
products OF European megaiomania.
The great realms OF the West and
OF the East are no longer willing TO
bow before any usurper OF power
whomsoever. But Europe Is subject
to the nation which holds Gibraltar
and Constantinople. the Pas de Calais
and the Sound, and which rules un-
challenged in the North Sea and the
Baltic. in the Mediterranean and the
Black Sea, and from Suez northward
to the rocky isles OF Finland and 10
| the Murman coast.
| Indeed. II is but a slight exsggera-
| ton TO say that east OF the Rhine
, there are for the time being only
| colonies. whose fate cannot be de-
| tcrmined against the will Of London.
As upon the wings OF the wind the
message nies through the tmmeasur-
able spaces OF the Mohammedsn
world England rules In the capital
| of the Caliph He is their prisoner
a -. IL.
! And Palestine. consecrated by a
hundred Moha mmedan memories. has |
| been surrendered by the blond kaffirs |
, to the Jews"
| The first result of this, no more |
| serious, perhaps. than the whim OF |
| a brown-skinned fellow, is that Mr.. |
Teisul with icy majesty declines the |
| invitation to London.
| The second. however, must be taken |
more seriously--the rebel thrust OF |
| the united forces of the Young Turks |
and the Bolshevist troops nowhere !
| encounters firm resistance. Even as
far as the Caspian sea they are greet
| ed by anti-British Mohammedan furor |
/ and are able to drive the British out |
| of Enseli.
PROBLEM OF ORIENT.
| Statecraft is the art OF calculating |
| out of the sum of possibilities what |
| is practicable at a given point of time |
and then carrying through today, |
with the full force OF statesmanlike |
determination and against every OPP |
! position the thing which could not |
have. been done yesterday and can no
7 longer be done tomorrow.
| The problem of the Orient, which |
reaches from the Danube over the |
lands of brown and yellow peoples as
far as Nladivostok and casts a broad |
shadow upon the western coast OF |
America, was called into being by the |
Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Rus
! sian setback in Manchuria which was
rendered possible by that alliance; by /
, the imperialistic expansion OF France .
and Italy and by the INSCRIPTIONS
use of black troops against white |
men in the war, the latter a condi-
ton which. unfortunately, is still con-
| tinued in the occupied territory.
If We shall fail to fnd for this |
| problem the solution which is still |
! possible, and therefore necessary, 1t !
will some day surprise the world |
with an explosion compared with |
which that of the summer OF 1914 |
| will sound in memory's ear like a !
! child's toy horn beside the trumpet |
! before whose reverbexations the walls |
OF Jericho fell.
But I" find this solution the tricks |
OF the charlatsns Of the mark ct place |
will not suffice. What has been at |
| tempted thus far Is nothing but ILL !
! considered patchwork. In order to |
| make use OF the period of Germsny's !
! impotence and the distress of France |
! England has hastened tho apparent |
! liquidation of the Turkish Empire. |
and has thereby knit together more |
firmly than ever the bond between
the Bolshcviki and the Turkish |
| leadcrs--Enver. Talaat & Co.--who |
have become enormously rich as the |
result of the war.
HOPES FOR CONQUEST.
And now the little Turk hopes to |
| achieve what was denied the genius |
| of the Corsican. He expects the fer |
vor of 1slamic religious fsnaticism |
to capture kars for him. win back |
Turkestan and open the way for his /
principal army through Afghanistan |
to India.
Upon skilfully chosen by paths pa
'rols have gone ahead-hundreds, yes, |
| thousands Of orthodox. Mohammedan. !
Gtheistic Russians, hardened in the !
forge fires of Bolshevist propaganda, |
and prepared to make every sacrifice |
| for the holy cause.
| Into tho very heart OF India their /
underground work can he traced. In
their language Lenin has become the |
promised Mahdi, who is to put an
end to all misery, MI up the gulf be- |
tween rich and poor, give to every |
honest man his part of the treasures
of this world, and bring to the Orient
| blessed release from foreign domina- |
| tion and the tyranny of capital.
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