The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-12
THE SHAME OF PEKIN
BY University Professor DIR. ALFONS
G0LDSCHMIDT (Berlin).


dts Of Chang Tso-lin with the ex-
press permission of the Diplomatic
Corps, it was inconceivable. Who be-
lieved this news? All written and
unwritten international law guar
antees the inviolability of the official
buildings of all countries. The peo-
pies of Antiquity, in the Middle Ages
and even in the so-called New Age
regarded this inviolability
as something unalterable and any at
tempt to interfere with it as one
of the worst crimes. Is it possible
that such crime could be committed
against the Soviet Embassy in, Pekin
and is. it at all conceivable that in
ternational diplomacy should have
given their permission to the com
initial of this crime? For centuries,
even down to the present day, the
school books have recorded the attack
made upon the inviolability of the i'm
perial Councillors Martinitz and Sla-
vata on the 23rd of May 1913 in
Prague and have declared that attack
to have been the iustifiable COM
mencement of the Thirty Years War.
And to-day, when we are proud of
having secured all the ideals of
Humanity" and the rights of the peo-
pies, through the League of Nations,
it is Just the official representatives
of all these things who ignore the
simplest and most natural rights as
though a Diplomatic Embassy were
No Mans Land during the war.
The Embassy Raid.
The unbelievable became a fact. |
The news was confirmed from all
sides. The most threadbare excuses
were used to justify the crime First
of all, they said, it was not the En-
bassy building itself, secondly there
were criminals in this building who
were conspiring against the life of
the leading political personalities in
Pekin and thirdly, this building con-
tanned documents which clearly and
conclusively proved the guilt and the
Vaccinations of the Soviet diplomacy
against the Pekin powers.
Just imagine the affair even if all
these accusations had been true to
the last syllable, but that the EN-
bassy had been not the Russian, but
the British or even the Italian, and
it had been the Vaccinations" of
these ambassadors. Suppose the BAN
dts of Chang Tso-lin had broken into
the Italian Embassy, ETC., etc. But
that is unthinkable. First of all the
diplomats would never have given
their consent, and had such raid
nevertheless taken place, what would
have happened then? The world
would have experienced terrible
storm of unprecedented proportions.
The whole world would have rung
with the clank of weapons. But it
was only the Soviet Embassy, and so
in few days the excitement had
subsidized
Lies Are Exposed
In the meantime three weeks have
passed. 1t turns out that there is no
proof, not the least vestige of proof
against the alleged criminals, so that
20 of them, that is more than half
of the arrested, had to be released.
This is made more than significant
by the fact that the Chinese mill
tarists are not too particular about
what happens to any unfortunates
that fall into their hands. But there
was no proof against those who were
in arrest. A few DAYS apo
it is true, the press Of the infamous
Linoviev letter forgers reported that
important documents had been found.
The truth of the matter can be seen
from a telegram from the "Berliner
rageblatt" of the 10Th of April:
"The attitude of the Doyen of the
Diplomatic Corps deserves most
severe condemnation, for the publica-
ton Of the material confiscated as a
result Of the raid on the Soviet En-
oassy up to the moment, shows a very
sparse result. Further, the genuine
hess of the most compromising docu-
nents is extremely doubtful. For in
stance, the reports to the Russian
Military Attache in Pel1in are written
n a most uncertain manner and only
partly in accordance with the modern
and official methods of Russian or
biography. Another very remarkable
'act is that these documents which
ire really compromising were only
published three weeks after the raid.
whilst the documents which were
irst published were simply ridiculous
md insignificant"
Imperialists Share Guilt. Il
Clumsy forgeries, no documents and
10 criminals! But what do the diplo-
mats who permitted the raid on the
Soviet Embassy, care about that?
What does Chang Tso-lin, the murder
Jus bandit whose, name will persist
n world history together with the
names of Cesare Borgia and Cortes,
are about these things? He ordered :
trial to take nIace but whilst +ba |