The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-21
Hope Slips for Grand
Duke as Russia Cheers
Chicherin's Challenge
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, there still few pretenders left the fallen
throne of the Russian But the world is taking
them less and less seriously This is true of the capital
ist worldathat has troubles of it's own
Even the correspondents of the kept press getting
tired of sending out propaganda for ost hopes" Milton
Bronne for instance in his correspondence Buffalo
Evening Times has laugh all his own at the pretensons
OF Cyril Romano cousin OF the late Gar Nicholas H. to the
title of car
The "grand duke" has his adherents, dwindling num-
ber outside the borders of Soviet Russia Fearing that no
would soon be left to pay any attention him.
recently issued pronuncamento from his
burg, Germany calling himself the of the Russians
a lot of other things.
The correspondent Bronner thereupon, decided to issue
proclamation on his own account claiming to be more
fitting to the times than the dukes declaration Bron
ners effort worth preserving in that it repeats to great
years Bronners effort behalf of the duke reads
as follows:
THE LAST OF THE RoMANoFFs.
g" Cyril ROmanOff by virtue cousnship
Gar Nicholas H. and spurred by various kInsmen advisers
hereby proclaim myself Of all the outside
~ myself
"erand of phantom Russia.
"Grand Duke of Londons little Russia
make-beIleve Russia
of Der tansplanted Russia
~ proclaim myself the tiuat ruler Of all the charming Russian
princess who with their lives
all the nobemen who their skins their
stocks all great capitals
eating expensive meals drinking costly
cabarets
incidentally, patriots
lost their all the revolution pedds
matches eaaa Bridge in constantinop acting
German restaurants singing Partisan cafes otherwise
out bare living"
1t is years now since that Red November Day,
Nov. 7, 1917 when the Bosheviks took power Russia
that the grand dukes have been hanging the
of capitalist power in Europe and in the United States,
hoping for the return of czarist rule at Moscow
But today the throne room, in MoscoW's Kremin, of
the czardom that gone hundes with the applause that
greets the remarks of Geog Chcher commssar of foreign
affairs of the Workers Republic. That applause doesn't
sound good to the of the sefsyed grand duke in
faro Germany than it does the of the for
egn ambassadors in Moscow who in attendance at the
meeting of the Al-Russan Executive Committee.
Chchern declares that the worlds mperaIists, who
thru the Dawes plan turned Germany into state,
seek to destroy Soviet Russas independence devious
ways
Never" cried chichern, twill they succeed. We will
fight back such attempts with every means
mand."
chcherin warns that the mperiaIsts Of the Versailles
peace joined by the United States thru the Dawes pa may
attempt to draw Germany into the combination against
Soviet Russia This the Germany with its socialist presi
dent Fritz Ebert that provides sanctuary to the of
the fallen czardom and becomes ally of world imperial
ism.
This is the Germany of the Second (Sociaist) Inter-
national that recently tried to strike blow Soviet
Russia thru plotting for the overthrow of Soviet in
Georgia. But the counter-revoutonary effort Georgia
failed most mseraby Sure prophecy the fate that awaits
every other effort to undermine and destroy the Russian
workers victory.