The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13

Among Comrades. !"

THAT Vladimir lytch Oulianoy, COM
w monty known as Nicolai Lenin, thought
of his comrades and associates IN the
proletarian revolution in Russia is revealed
in a suppressed passage in the viii OF the
dead leaaer. "Kameneff is hesitating and
unstable; be is an uncertain man and a dan
gerous individual to our party. He should
be constantly spied upon" Georges Zinovieff,
chairman of the worlds red movement at the
present time, is described in the following
words by his grand chief: IAN individual
without the least talents, but an ambitious
man who needs watching because his ambi-
ton will even lead him to do things that
are contrary to the interests of our party"
OF the others he has similar high opinions.
1t is only Trotsky whom he admired, though
Leon is described as fond of posing. AS a
matter of fact, all the red leaders of Russia,
with the exception of Trotsky, always be-
longed to the bolshevist group. Trotsky was
! menshevik, that to which Ramsay Mac
Donald in England and Herriot in France
belong. Trotsky became convert to revolu-
tionary activity only during the revolution,
and his defense of the soviet regime had been
hailed as the greatest polemic in modern his
tory by none other than George Bernard
Shaw. Kameneff, though, has a way out
of his own predicament in which Lenin's will
has placed him. He says: 1--WE all know the
great chief was insane just before he died."
No Hope In Nordies Nor Latins. r q,
Far-reachins ideas are heard in Germany
these days, according to Macmillan Harden $
publication, die Zukunft" There is an in
clination for hope from the east, 1.-THE birth
place of all religions from Buddha to Moham-
med, from Lao-Tse to Dostoievsky." The idea
is gaining that the west is decaying and de-
clining and that cultural association with
France or even the Scandinavian and English
countries is not worth while. How Earring
such sentiments must be to Hilaire Belloc and
Gilbert Keith ChestertOn, who firmly believe
in tue coming rise of the Catholic peoples
German idealism is seeking harbOr. 1t has
broken away from the spiritual anchors Of
Professionalism, from the philosophy of Hegel
and Nietzsche and is casting anxious glances
over the horizon for a harmony of spirit, as
Professor Eucken of Jena, calls this search.
Against this idealism stands the plain real
ism of the German nationalists. who have a
definite plan, and definite goal intview.
Lloyd George And The Anabasis.
+ Slowly history and methodical research in
the archives of Europe is untanglihg and
Strengthening out disputed points and ques-
tions that were battling to the lay mind but
a few years ago. Sir Hamilton, who COM
muIucu the Inflated OulllpOn eXpeOltlOn, now
comes with the declaration that the allies
blundered in their treatment of King -Constan-
tine of Greece. He deplores the fact that
Constantine was not taken into the confidence
of the allies, instead of having been treated
like a yassai. Sir Ian was first on the spnt
in the near east during the wei. He found
the Greeks and their king warmly ii. fav0r
of the allied cause. Later they changed The
reason was the high-handed allied policy TO-
ward the sovereign Greek nation. Another
matter of which Sir Ian Hamilton speaks in
his new book is the responsibility for the
Greek disaster in Asia Mncl when Ec!n',
ras!a turned the Enahasis of King G nstaH.
tine near Smyrna and drove tn: Hellenic armies
in the sea. The British general saddles Lloyd
George with the responsibility. 1T was hard
luck for the Greeks to meet Mr.. Lloyd George.
Poincare did stand by the Turks, but Lloyd
George let down the Greeks" The general
winds up: IF ever the chance arises, / think
we should try and compensate the Greeks for
having brought them the gifts which have
ruined them"