The Denver Jewish news., 1923-02-07


designed to show forth the disapproval
by the masses of the slnyers of Rath-
enau And the events proved it to
have been something more, namely, II
nation wide defiance to the monarch
lists believed to have instisated the
crime. Pictures and every manner OF
reminder of the Hohenzollerns were
summarily cast into the rubbish heap.
1t was mighty demonstration against
those who wuold lay hands upon the
ark of the republic. And still it Is
not certain that the republic is TO stand.
A temporary reaction might carry Ger
many back for II time to -monarchism,
| If not to Kaiserism. Almost too often
does the warming opportunities
France relent we shall be delivered
over to BOlshevism. The threat is re-
peated with such monotonous regularity
as to sound like IL slogan--for foreign
consumption.
All but the monarchists are sorry for
the passing of Rnthenau He seems TO
have been respected by most Germans
and dreaded by the rest. He was our
strong man. who could deal on terms
lof equality with the Allied statesmen"
wns said of him to me again and again.
\ distinguished statesman. who saw
Rathenau shortly before the latter's
foul murder told me that Rathenau
had most earnestly contended that
even IL Germany We're responsible for
the war, the responsibility could be
limited to not more. than three hundred
persons: to lay the blame upon fifty
five millions of people is II sin'-he
added, withalmost prophetic earnest
ness.
At the head of its foreign affairs Ger
mnny needed II man of integrity, con
ciliatoriness and tact. And Rathennu
the Jew lies dead. One is reminded
of what Virchow-or was it Moinmsen:
-said at the funeral of Bamberger:
Err war der Deutschester aller Deutsch-
EN-.
Austria lies broken. One Journeys
thru Czecho- Slovakia, Italy, Poland,
Rumania, JiigO-Slavin. and looks upon
the limbs torn from the bleeding Aus
trian body 1t was an unholy aliience
and IL has had terrible end-every
part larger and stronger than the torso
THAT remains too proud to perish ana
too feeble to hope, its capital, Vienna,
vital still. the center of an empire that
is not. And the States that were Aus
tria are cropping for way out that
may yet be found in some manner ot
Danubian or other confederation. Again
there is a note of comfort. While
there is misery without end the workers
are NOT unemployed And they earn
la living wage ns things go in Central
Europe. On the other hand what Ger
lmnny and Austrin cal 1.-THE Slittelstand
versity fare terribly. The American
universities ought to unite to maintain
the great University of Vienna until
1.-THE evil days have been tided over.
THE receipts Of the Harvard-lnlc-
Princeton football games in November
were enough to maintain the University
of Vienna for years.
And what is to he the end of ii all
most accustomed our selves to deal with
the question with the objectivity of
those playing with "A pnror puzzle. For
lme the question is not whether we as
In, s.lIf nf
mess. but whether we are to enter ii
ltoo late What of the Washington Con
ference: Did it not mark Americas re
entry into world affairs: Yes. the
washington Conference may have been
wisely self-Iimiting in program, but the
IleSsening of the likelihood of American
and japanese strife or the reduction
of the naval arwamcnts of the strong
and little wounded ations will hardly
avail to assusage the sutferings of peo-
pie as remote from Japan geographical
ly rs are we. The Washington Confer
ence may prove far-secngly prophylnc-
tic What the world needs is Immediate
hcaling of its gaping. bleeding wounds.
We may not solve Europe's problems.
but dare we fail to try! If they 90
nsolvcd. we shall face greater prob
lens of our own. If the American pco-
pie knew all. they would dare much
and they would scorn the policy of dur-
ing nothing when all is at stake.
L No consideration of European lands
land their relations to America would
he complete that did not take into nc-
count II seemingly trivial but actually
sovereign circumstance. namely. the
new and Unprecedented place of the dol
lar in the economic life of the world.
rhe dnllnr is hrcnnr moro thnn tho