Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-01-07
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tercsted In Lenln or Bolshevism than .
British farmer would be In Confucius,
Many OF them were prisoners or do
scrfers from rcnreInp army. Most cf
them hnd Joined the army because they
had been told they could lsot what they
like from the Poles-and by heaven.
they hnd Even man who talked per-
feet French and who had u big title 70
his name seemed to worry little about
Lenin and not at.nll about Trotsky. We
could NOT find one-not even among the
Commissaries themsclyes-who lad
gone TO fight because he believed In Bol-
shevissl, because 1t was his faith"
And so with his eyes open. seeing life
as 1t Is, Mr.. Bartlett can tell us gocl
deal more about the tragedy OF the
n,inorities problem than did the recent
Conference Of National Minorities In
Geneva.
Of TransylvHnia, he Inns to tell us Of
nm adventure he had In sleeping car
between Bucharest and Budapest which
illustrates the feeling betweea the
Hungarians and the Rounanians better
than does library book. He was bit
ten on the eyelid by an Insect that shall
be nameless, he writes. and he there
fore arrived ut CiuJ. the capital OF
Pennsylvania, with large bandasc
around his head. When he explaincl
to the Ro,imsninns he had come TO meet
that he hnd not been In n motor acci
dent but merely u wagon 1T. they has
tened TO point out that the sleeping car
had come from Hungary, 'and when my
Hungarian friends in Budapest" he
goes on, learned the cause OF the black
shade that | wore over my left eye
they shrugged their shoulders: IF ycA
will travel in Roumanin,' they asked.
what can you cxpect?'
And OF the anta aeonisni between the
small nations who constitute In each
others countries the national minor
tiles what more graphic. what more
biting illustration is there than that Of
his meeting with the then Austrian
Chancellor, DIR. SchOber. and NJ. Stam-
bulisky. the peasant Premier of Bulgn-
ria. walking in and the two giaring ut
each other. Mr.. Bartlett had arranged
to interview DIR. Schol,er during the
Genoa conference. lie arrived early,
and ns NJ. StaDbulisky was living In
the same hotel he thought he might xs
well kill two Premiers with one visit.
''Dr Schober entered the hotel by one
door and came toward me. the Bul-
garian Prine Minister catered 1t by I'M
other door and came toward me. Not
for many years shall forget the way
In which the statesmen slared at each
other over my humble head"
What an exhibition of glaring Mr..
Bartlett saw ut the frontier town OF
Tighinn III Rcumania. where folk stood
gazing across to the land TO the cast OF
the Dniestcr. "slnce It was pOinted Out
to us that II we did SO we might see n
Russian peasant going home to his din
us, thut 'Roumania lives in state cr
perpetual uneasiness and until some
definite and sensible agreement is
reached between Russia and Roumaihs
as regards the future Of Bessarabin,
there will remain danger Of war along
. the Dnicstcr."
And what n mix-up it all is In
Ciuj, which is the capital of Trunsyl-
vania, now n Htoumanian province, n
city known also by the Hungarians ns
Kolozsavar, and as Klausenburg by the
memory of heroic Emperor who is
claimed by the Roumanans as n Rou-
manan and by the Hungarians as n
Hungarian All day long through the
e streets Of this city pass Jews in old fur
coats. peasants in Roumanian or Hun
carinu national costumes, and monde
scripts whose nationality remains II
mystery.
And n certain type Of Jew-a. type we
have all met ut times, also conc 40
these pages. In Zurich, Mr.. Bartlett
met II German Jew who wished him Ia
believe that he was British. Within the
first two minutes Of his conversation he
had Informed him that he was a British
subject and had produced his passport
= to prove It. He then Informed him he
: was life member of the Patriotic
League of Britons Overseas and pro-
duccd "A receipt to prove it. He told
him how he loathcd Jews and how he
loathcd Germans. He also told him that
he bad letters from the King and Duke
Of Connausbt and produced letters
Il am instructed by -- TO thank
You for the book Of poems which he Is
pleased to accept. Signed -, Fri
vatc Secretary His last words with
him were, king and Empire count