Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03

fairly good translation), declared by its
trainers to constitute the nucleus OF a
new liberal union" Those trainers
were a group including part of the
Democratic party and the so-called
Young German Order, whose aims have
not hitherto been specifically political
They evidently conceived the ambitious
notion of attracting to themselves and
effecting a fusion of all the moderate
Bourgeois parties. The Democratic
party governing board at once voted
amalgamation of that party with the
new organization, but the other parties
blew cold So what you really have is
a rehabilitation of the Democratic party
under a new name, with some present
expansion and hope, not too vivid, OF
considerably larger expansion.
OF late years the Democratic party
has had hard shedding, though its role
was a major one In the drafting OF the
Weimar constitution, and though 1t has
included a striking proportion of the
best political heads of latter-day Ger
many including Walter Rathenau and
DR.. Hugo Preuss. 1t entered the Ma
tional Assembly in 1919 with rs Depu-
ties, but in the elections of 1928 won
only IS seats. The new party asserts
loyalty to the Weimar constitution, but
also with precise significance" de-
clares that "the world must be con-
WINGED of the impossibility of fulfilling
the dictates OF Versailles and st. Ger
main
4KURDISTAN - Those Kurds who
have been giving Mustapha Renal so
much trouble are those very Cardu-
chians you read about in Xenophon's
Anabasis. You see from his description
that they haven't changed much since.
They are Aryans, no doubt, with some
Turanian and Semitic admixture, but
not much
There are estimated to be about
100000 Kurds in all. divided among
Turkey, Iraq and Persia-something
lious Kurds of Turkey have been get
ting help from their Persian brethren,
and now we hear of gallant band Of
500 Mosul Kurds raiding into Turkey
up Lake Van way. The rebels have
been driven far up the slopes of Ararat,
where the Ghazi's planes are bombing
them. Though Aryans, the Kurds are
peculiarly fanatical Mohammedans and
main motive of their disaffection to
the new Turkish regime Is their re-
ligious fundamentalism. The Iraq
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treaty between Great Britain and lraq
providing for the independence OF the
latter and by the same token loss OF
protector to themselves. All the Kurds
are agog, invoking Great Britain, the
League of Nations and Allah on behalf
of an independent Kurdistan.
The resemblances have often been
noted between the Kurdish tribes and
the highland clans of Scotland. Per-
haps pride of ancestry Is the disttn-
gushing characteristic of the Kurdish
chiefs. Only the other day the court OF
one of the great chiefs furnished one
of the most picturesque sights In the
world-the chief himself, retinue OF
hereditary swells, and bodyguard OF
young braves, clad In chain armor, with
garish silk scarfs and armed with lance,
sword and javelin. The women do not
veil and are, allowed great freedom. The
men are hospitable and are very hon
orsbIe, according to their somewhat fan
tastic code. They are, however, very
much under the influence OF dervlshes,
an influence, of course, which makes
for savagery. They have no end OF ira
ditions and legends, and the reciting OF
lyrics and epic poems has a Homeric
vogue.
Tine districts inhabited by Kurds are
full of antiquities, including inscriptions
In Assyrian, Babylonian, Greek, Roman,
Iranian, Turanian. mostly awaiting re-
search. The language, Kerf2Anji, is an
| old Persian patois, with various Chsl-