The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11
The Organization Of Destruction.

these countries the chief of these instruments the
most powerful Of these organizations the and
the military leagues. One cannot imagine another
place in the world where the uniform and galoon en-
joy complete power, where the officers are in
vested with an responsibility and despotism more
absolute. One of the most sadly picturesque aspects
of the Balkan capitals the quarters occupied by the
officers and the Importance which the military monu-
ments display there
At Bucharest the Military Circle with its opuent
architecture, ecipses all the other monuments Of the
city even the Palace and the new banks.
At Belgrade, the Military School is monument,
it Is an entire quarter. The budget of JugoSlavia
amounts to 10 milard dinars; 100000 dedicated
to the war budget not to disregard the one mliard
advanced by the good grace of France for
ments. In Bulgaria. out of a revenue of about $500
million levas $500 million to the army police
In Greece total expenses SAT- million drachmes min
istry Of War, 2,272 million.
Military Leagues and Police.
pY the side of official mitarism semioficial mill
- tarism; by the side of the army, the leagues
posed of reserve officers or of ex-ofHcers All the
Balkan countries are provided with them. Many have
several Of them The Serbian White Head (which sue
ceeded the Black Head) has been implicated in all the
political events In Bulgaria fourteen members
of the Military League form the Military Convent
supreme committee which ofhand is called the
Squadron. In addition there is Tcheka composed Of
five officers, members of the League Operating paral
lei is the secret association, kubrat.
As for the organization of the police: is every
where formidable. The ROumanian Siguranza Safety
commands Millions newspapers 1t has attaches and
agents, ears and hands everywhere 1t state within
the state The number of Balkan gendarmes is out of
proportion to the population. There $4,000 gen
darmes in Roumania, 1000 in Jugosavia The gem
daEmes distributed the country in small groups
and commit exactions, cruees, robberies and crimes
certain of impunty. In Roumania they have prodted
largely by the woud-be proetarian law OF the
division Of the estates.
Fascsts and cossacks.
toFR
tations Of neutrality, undeniably encourages the
growing and turbulent group of AntiSemetc Students
-fascists and provocateurs Altho has struck at the
Independent Students in dissOlving their organization
and in prohibiting their journal it openly toerates the
propaganda of the AntiSemetic Students In that wav
the AntfSemetic Party, which has never existed at
Bucharest Git fortified itself in Yassy under the orders
Of M CouEa who, from the height of his PROFESSIONAL
chair openly preached pogroms) has Just been installed
there by the liberals. The AnSemites have five Jour
nails at their disposal display their pacards and their
insignia IN the open street. and molested in
their public demonstrations. One evening when some
OF these desperados shout in front of nv hotel
In order to punish for infringing upon the national
sovereignty" assured that they had been sur-
rounded by agents of Surety whose principal concern
was to keep the crowd from hnderng their demonsra
ton These are the young people who by their special
notion Of the honor of Roumana, have hindered the
secretary OF our League for the Rights of Man from
speaking at Bucharest. At the expense Of few com
planes, the authorities possess in this convenient
means of having their hand forced One cannot insist
TOO much on the artificial character of this ant-semetc
agitation, cultivated by force by hreling provocateurs
IN the bosom OF the least fanatical population
one least inclined to race-hatred in the world
Another grouping constitutes violent agent of exc
cuton for the Balkan governments the exofcers and
soldiers OF WrangeL In the streets Belgrade one
meets cossacks in uniform who only waiting for
the opportunity-one of them has shouted II recently
IN the street during brawlto carry out in the Balkans
the counterrevoutionary activity which they were nm
able to conduct in Russia. Vandervelde remarked at
the end Of the voyage which he took to the Balkans
that the Wrangeites abound by the thousands in Bull
garia They say there 10000 Wrangelites in that
country and this figure is not improbable
1t is at the demand Of France that Bulgaria lodges
the armed bands Of Wrange The latter had their
official representative, Petraev harbored in the Rus
sian embassy at Sofa. Stamboiski held them IN
check and life then difficult for them; but their
decisive participation in the coup detat of June 1928
made their fortune