Evening star., 1923-12-30
EUR0PE'S CAPITALS
AIR HOPES FOR YEAR
Harden Whimsically Gives. His
Conception Of Their Own
Viewpoints.
ALL PLEAD UTTER ALrRursM
Virtue of Individual Nations De.
sires Set Forth.
BY MAxIMrLIAN HARDEN.

By MACMILLAN HARDEN.
Germany's Forenost P.Alicist.
By Radio to The Star.
Ia whimsical mood this week, Maxi
niinan haroen writes supposed New Year
messages from the capitals OF Eurona
GLOWING each to discuss their problems
them. Ae secs
BERLIN. December 29-"Europa
was kings daughter. who let her.
self be abducted to Crete by a mighty
bull from Phoenicia. Later. when she
desired to marry and have her hus-
band adopt her three children, she
swore that the supreme Greek god.
Mr.. zeus, ill-famed for his violations
OF all sorts of prohibition laws, reaIiy
occupied the bulls skin.
whoever bears q name ill.renuted
both by descent and deeds has no
right to look down superstitiously on
others. VIII you therefore, dear
Europa, finally recognise US de jure =?
1t is highest time. We promise to
serve you a communist revolution
only in dainty little bits, and to, spare
damned capitalism wherever it can
advantage us. either at home or
abroad. Business is business.
| But If you still imagine you'll re-
cover even one OF the roubles you
threw into czarism's bloody nav,
nicia. and we give you gratis the
advice to wait for another OK.
(Signed) MOSCOW"
The big washing has been punc-
tually finished. One hundred thousand
black shirts, which no starcher could
make stiff, have been ironed and guar
antee the salvation Of every father
THE Mediterranean is still not en-
tirely our sea, but the black shirt will
parade in Tangiers tomorrow, and the
Latin determination sealed by Victor
Emmanuers and Alfonsos brotherly
kisses gives the Gallo-Celtic allies
salutary scare.
THE Grecian bear market in mo-
narchic stocks causes us no uneasiness
Our college for practical fascism is,
like those of Mustapha Kemal Hortny,
Hitler, Ludendorff, Primo de Rivera
and Company, also open for the greater
venizelos. He is hardly young enough
stick to the antfquated methods of
democracy. But that cannot damage
Rome is eternal; Italy is the mother
of all culture; Peters cross is bound
into fasces; our entire youth is we'd
ded to the sacred cause and the Mus
soltsi tsi1nsds 15sds mark has been coRy5,ghtsd
"The miracle of the Marne is re-
the franc. % A concentric nitric assault, Ss I'm in
which our aviators distinguished
, troops even Of former neutrals, is re-
pulsed and the central sterling army
has been forced back 160 cents daily.
Of the Bank Of France.
The battle is continuing: The
morale Of the army and OF the civilians
Is above praise. In:reiiarce on thu oft>
sociated nations. In possession Of
help of the Duesseldorf court-martiaI,
have just brought us q few decades
ness. that we. are battling .unselishly
for freedom. Justice. humanity and the
self-determination Of peoples, France.
with whom Czechoslovakia now also
concludes a defensive alliance for the
looks confidently toward the future.
THE committee Of experts will be
welcome. They will bring news of
the strange and surprising adven-
lures of Robinson OF Los Angeles to
the mighty republic in whose heroic
history Lafayette's name stands close
to the names Of Franklin and WASH
ington.
"The franc repulses the storm. LIE
Jo.i de Gloire est arrive!
,AEned) PARIS"
"rhe caIiphate of London becomes
visible. Angora will not be able to
maintain her Osman :; caliph much
longer. The protests Of the Indian
Mohammedans against this restriction
Of religious affairs have worked well.
II necessary. these must be helped
fout by Atrocities compelling the inter.
|-ventton- OF Christian powers.
with Hussein in Mecca an our ca
liph. we shall not seriously threaten
longer I'm the orient; In Egypt we
have the Arabs In leash despite au-
tonomy; we can even leave TO Ram
say Macdonald the pacifying Of boil
shsvists disguised as Afghans, and
Europe. y must be rebuilt. Tha
best solution would be- restora-
tween the batties b Trafalgar ;2nd
sedan-that 10 TO say. EnUland's quiet
dominance. Z,
That Europe IN 1s7s takes only
80 per cent Of cur exports. cries TO
heaven. Europe can never reach noble
|humanity's highest peak without cur