The Washington times., 1921-01-03

the POStOfnce department ana
Hubert Settles and his wife are
under arrest
Ing into this city from Esthonia.
Lithuania. Poland, Lettland and Ga
| licia. They are bound for all quar-
tiers OF the globe, and Vienna, still
the gateway TO all the surrounding
territory, receives them all. In the
old days she welcomed them, for she
had a right to her reputation as the
most hospitable, kindly, cosmopolitan
and tolerant OF cities. Desperate now.
she is refusing for the first time In
her history to shelter fugitives. But
they steal in. They come without
passports and stay without police per-
mits. hiding themselves or throwing
themselves upon the mercy of the re-
lief committees.
They leave Poland or White Russia
AS the victims of the war which has
never declared an armistice for them.
They find themselves in their flight
the victims OF the peace which has
hewr up old territories. created new
borders. new beauracracies and new
armies.
GOING TO PALESTINE.
In one OF these cafes In Vienna,
met a body of hundred young
and were bound for their own recent
iy acquired country--Falestinc They
were going there not as refugees but
as nation builders" They were not
from among the poor. but came from
upper middle class homes. Among
them were physicians. lawyers, engi-
neers. agricultural technicians Every
one of them could speak at least two
languages.
They had started in the summer
thinking that the trip to Trieste,
where they were to embark to Alex
andria. would take them only week.
Perhaps less. They had started with
sufficient money for the journey.
And seventeen weeks later they had
gotten only as far as Vienna! Halted
at every border. time and again go
Ing through endless red tape OF new
vises. they had spent their strength and
their money, and had arrived in vi
emma. destitute, dependent wholly
upon the "Joint"-as the Joint Dis
tribution Committee is everywhere alb
breviated.
DRIVEN FROM RUSSIA.
Their problem, as Jews. was com.
plicated by the fact that they were
Russians. l wish 1t were possible to
picture the suffering which hundreds
Of Russians are undergoing in sevry
European capital because Of the unan-
imous decision Of the powers not
to grant vises to people OF Russian
birth. Hundreds Of these people have
been driven from Russia because OF
anti-Bolshevik activities. They UNI |
derstand that France and England |
and the other allies are opposed TO |
Bolshevism have even sent troops 10 |
fight it; and they fancy that they |
who have waged the same battle in
Russia will be welcomed and given
refuge by the powers. How great is
their disillusion! No one will take
them in!
l met here girl twenty-fou years
old whose father had been a prom
inent and wealthy banker in Kiev.
Because of his anti-Bolshevik activi-
ties the whole family had been forced |
to flee from Russia when the Bolshe
viks came in Kiev. Stealing borders,
bribing officials, she and her mother
had at last gotten to Vienna. From
there they wished to go to Paris,
because in Paris there are people |
whom my father has befriended in
he past, who know and love my
mother, who will take care of her as
long as she lives, and who will make |
lie possible for me-"
But weeks had passed and the |
French wise was not forthcoming Il
shall wait seven more days" she |
said. grimly, "and then I shall shoot
myself"
JEWS MADE sCAPEGOATs.
Overpopulated Vienna has risen |
against the strangers" She cannot |
fight the "Auslanders" who live in the |
zig hotels, because they tell her that |
she must have their money-for which |
he gives them in return food and |
clothing. which her populate ion needs. |
at prices which should make them |
blush as they pay. Besides, they are |
protected by foreign missions. She |
cannot rise against the Czecho-Slo- |
walks, who are numerous foreign
population, because that would lead
to reDrisals. Only the Jew has no
one to defend him, so the Jews be-
come the scapegoats Of her despera-
ton.
The politicians urge the city on.
Since they cannot promise the people
anything real in the way OF improved
conditions, they hold out the hope of
better times, when the Eastern Jews
have gone" The politicians know
that the refugees who occupy only
buildings unfit for dwellings. who
eat food furnished them by American
Jews when they eat at all. are not
rpsnOnsible Anetria'a proh1ep