The Indianapolis times., 1930-07-16
RED Menace
GROWING AS
WORLD FEAR
Revolutions, Unemployment
Add to Terror RouSed
by Communism.
POPE ISSUES WARNING
Boss Stain, Moscow Gang
Believe Time Is Ripe
for BoISheviSm.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINIMS
Scrinps- Howard Foreign Editor


WASHINGTON, july 16.-Wheth-
er it be only an ugly hugaboo or an
actual and pressing menace, the
fact remains that once again the
red peril" has become almost a
worldwide, and growing obsesSion.
Behind this we'll nigh universal
uneasinesS are two fundamental
reasons.
First. virtually every nation on
the globe either is a state of actual
or potential revolution, or else is in
the grip of an alarming economic
depression, plus unemployment and,
perhaps, political complications.
Second, the "watchful waiting"
faction of Communists in Moscow
just has been forced to recant and
eat humble pie before the party
convention, while Boss Stain and
his followers, who believe the world
situation is. ripe for BolShevist
action, now have taken over the
reins quite definitely.
Pope Is Warning
The Pope has seen fit to issue a
warning from the Vatican City, and
there hardly is a government in the
world that either is not anxiously
on the watch, or taking active steps
to head off what, rightly or wrongly,
it believes to be a grave danger.
China and India, together con-
tanning almost half the total popu-
lation of the earth, actually are in
revolution, and nervous observers
have not forgotten the Lenin doc
trine that through the east will
the west be conquered"
The French just have put down
a bloody insurrection in Indo-China,
which, according to Minister of
Colonies Pietri, was instigated by
known agents of Moscow whose
avowed aim was to oust the French
and set up a Communist state,
Trouble in Latin Nations
Communist clashes in Mexico,
Honduras and other Latin American
republics recently have been re-
ported. Bolivia and Brazil have had
revolutionary uprisings; Paraguay is
reported in a state of siege. ans
martial law has been set up in a
part of Honduras.
Egypt, says Makram Bey, former
cabinet minister of that country, is
in very grave and indeed, critical
situation" as what he claims to be
95 per cent of the people line up
against the government.
Turks and Persian Kurds are
fighting along the border in the
shadow of Ararat where Noah's ark
landed after the flood, and there is
friction in Palestine between Zion
ist and Arab.
Polands long draWout crisis, due
to the quarrel between dictator and
president, continues. Rumania is in
the throes of important dynastic
changes and Hungary faces trou-
BILE, perhaps invasion, if she at
tempts to place a crown upon the
head of the 17-year-old Archduke
Otto, the Hapsburg.
Balkans Are Restless
Throughout the Balkans there is
restlesSness as talk proceeds for and
against revision of the Versailles
treaty, and while, for the moment,
France and Italy have declared a
truce, their quarrels are by no
means settled.
England, Germany and the
United States have serious unem-
ployment problems on their hands.
and Japan similarly is stricken. An
economic depression has hit the
whole world
1t was this unhappy situation
which the rulers Of Moscow had in
mind when they observed that
events we're working in their favor.
And it is this that forms the back
ground as capitalist nations talk
of the Communist danger.