The Washington times., 1922-04-30

sian empire. the Austro- Hungarian
empire and the Turkish empire;
having cut the German empire:
Europe has lost the massive pillars
of her structure. and is smashing
up into a lot of little states which
are continually changing.
Great bulks of force like Eng
land and France are vainly striv-
ing to resist the struggle that cor
rodes them.
What will England now be able
to do to Egypt? What in Con-
stantinople? What in Mesopo-
tamia, Palestine and India?
The Sevres treaty, dealing with
the partition of the Ottoman en-
pire, the Anatonic war, the usur-
patton of the Dardanelles, has had
but one real result-to excite a
Kemalist reaction, to augment the
Indian rebellion, to vivify in Islam
a Bolshevik fermentation and to
push Russia into a position OF
turbid mediator between India and
the Reich.
Ancient wisdom assures what
history teaches.
This history of today is like
undo each night her linen, not
for faithful expectation OF any
good but for mad sterile in
quietude. She teaches nothing.
On the contrary she makes men
stupid-makes them lose their
memory and confuse wrong with
right.
Sagacity Of the United States.
With what sagacity and resolu-
ton have the people of the
United States cut their thread
in order to not let it be woven
in the deceiving linen at Genoa.
What was the use of the war?
What is the use of a painful
victory?
What is the use of a wretched
defeat?
What is the use of all the
material and spiritual force man
offended and defended with SO
much fierceness?
Representatives of thirty-four
peoples meeting in Christian
Genoa in order to try to remove
from Europe the influence of its
ancient evils, are embittered by
cruelest barbarity.
Did it not seem that young
proletarian Italy had called them
to acknowledge themselves under
the sign of the Resurrection?
Did it not seem that IN this sweet
April, on one of the most luminous
and most celebrated shores in the
world, the son of the living God
had to transfigure himself in all
the mother countries still ailing
and struggling?
But today in that noble Genoase
hall, the stones Of which are
cemented by the rough virtue Of
merchants and navigators, we see
again on theAwall that same Christ
whom, in the night Of battle we
saw under fire the crossway, losing
his fet like a soldier hit by chips
OF shrapnel.
He is still nailed to the wool
by his left hand, but is bowling his
forehead bored by thorns and
stretching forth his right hand
still transfixed by the fatal nail,
like a desperate arm Of warning.
Out of his shroud the conquerors
try to make ties to bind the bored
hands and feet of the conquered,
and the conquered try to make
ropes to lasso their conquerors.
From villa to villa, from hotel
to hotel, from table to table, from
revelry to revelry, from grin to
smile, from chatting to reticence, 1t
seems Is dimly circulating the
word OF the obscure disciple:
What shalt thou give me that 1
may give unto thy hands?"
These people were going to 'cele-
brate Easter without the egg. ne
glecting among so many ceremon-
les. the, sacred rites Of Easter.
Mister Tchitcherin, all white and
dressed in garlaDds of olives, put
into the hands of Herr Rathenau
the only egg laid by a patient
peace. in order that that astute
German might put 1t standing on
the carpet with the modest, tri-
umphal gesture of the good Chris
topher Columbus.
The egg stands there still with
out vacillating.
"It is a serpent egg" Is the cry
all around the world, In a ohorous
of Indignation.
"It is the egg of Hydra"
But yesterday an illustrious
Egyptologue of Jugo-Slavia, sup
ported by Lord Curzon, after
silent examination, declared II to
be an egg OF Osiris.
1t Is the memorable egg into
which were shut by the excellent
god Osiris, twelve white pryamids
as a sign Of good, but which were
transformed by the worst kind of
a typhoon into twelve black pyru-
mids as a sign of evil.
1t is probable that sooner or
later the points of the twelve black
pyramids will enter the eyes OF
the thirty-four nations convoked
at Genoa.
But let the living God conserve
TO the absent people Of the Cnited
States, eyes clear and far seeing,
bravely fixed toward a just future
and a most just sun.