Evening star., 1924-05-07
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

do not intend TO attack, but we arr
on the alert Behind Rumania stand
France and Poland"
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Great Britain on February .. gave
de jure recognition to soviet Russia
and since then the two nations have
been holding conferences in an effort
to agree upon what that recognition
really implies. In addressing the con
ference at it's opening session, Prime
Minister Macdonald presented his
platform-which perhaps, made Mr.
Trotsky smile grimly:
% ITO Hquidate the past" CPay
what Russia owes.)
(2) To reach agreement as 10 rights
and obligations actually existing h,-
tween the two countries
(3G To provide, as far as nossio..
for peaceful and profitable relations
| in the future
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In replying to Mr.. MacDona.d. ta.
head of the Russian delegation. Eak-
ovsky. asserted that they were W Ill
| ing to talk over the debt question
"and if account were taken % n,
! tries, nothing stood in the way O..
| its solution" In other words. if Ems
! land knows what is good for IT, tn"
! less pressure brought TO bear on the
| debts the better, in the light "t
| TrotslIy's ultimatum. However. the
! Russian leader demanded that 'h"
| Versailles treaty must be revised md
| boundaries be amended along chino
graphic lines. partly bv plebiscl''--
To En n
| tion wholly passed?
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Within the last three days, Cr...
Duke Nicholas NiCholaievitch h.rn-
interviewed in Paris, announcaa
readiness to head revolt aEalns.
Communistic Russia, with the vie" to
restoring the throne, with hmse.
as car.
| In the Pan-German party which has
proved so active in the recent e're-
tion in Germany, the cry is raised for
a reunited nationalism, TO reas~eT.
Deutschland uber allies" 1t demand
union of all Germans for the pur-
pose of creating n great Germary q.
the basis of the right of self-dei .G-
mination.
Like the Russians. it demand rr.
vision of the treaty of Nersal. les
and restoration of the German ,o5-
onies. No Jews are 20 be given ,i7
rights of citizenship and all forcigu.
ers are to be expelled from GerIu,-nz
No one is TO be permitted to Yr
without working, so all incomes r,-
ceived without present work ar" F"
be confiscated and all corporate
are to be acknowledgements 1d
All ''mercenary troops are to be q '.-
ished." That hits their regular ar'1'
Drastic social reforms of all kinds
are to be inaugurated. "Newspai."rT
which conflict with the public w".-
fare shall be forbidden" Friction
of the Christian religion is demand.t.
without binding itself to any deru.yr
confession. But 1T opposes the J""
ish materialistic spirit"
Another faction or party annougcco
few days ago the abolition o'
Christianity and a return to the Wof
ship of Wotan. The German NaLinnr
Freedom party headed by Gen t.b-
dendorff and Hitler, is the SucCc -aDI
of the PanGerman party, but Is
more radical and communist. r
demands a parliamentary dictate hlH
governing all Germany. In thu rS-
citement of last. Sundays election d.
Parliament crowd gathered h"toi
Ludendorff's house and sp,ahsl
said:
I'VE hope you will gain a complete
victory and that we shall live a.
participate when you lead us Over
the Rhine again"
The result of the election included
the complete victory" of Gen. Lu-
dendorff, and lie Temps of Paris fears
that the party favorable to the pa
ment of reparations will not be all"
to muster enough votes in the RcichS-
tag. Communism rampant in Russia
and Germany and an Imaginary line
between the two countries, The
spirit of world revolution to He
brought by invading armies of the
proletariat! peace, peace. where
there is no peacer'
~ copyright, 1924. By Paul Y. Collinsl