The Washington times., 1934-03-13
TENSION GAINS,
RESEMBLES
THAT Of "A
Serbian Says World Should
Have Learned Lesson, But
Did It? Talks of Liberty

NNOuttHuSO IEO" UkS -
pigeons. fat, impudent, waddle and
Iazily peck spilled grain.
In the streets young women
dressed in Partisan clothes. trim
wasted, silk7stockinged, with chic
hats, mince along behind the
heavy black veil prescribed by the
prophet.
Young Mohammedans in the
turkey-red feZzes banned by Tur-
key inspect the passing ladies and
approve the modification of the
ancient wrapper that really ortho-
dox Moslem girls should wear.
It might be difficult to find out
what Sarajevo. where the 'last"
war started, thinks Of the next"
war.
But it is not difficult to find
out what one citizen thinks.
His thoughts are probably as
valuable as most of the opinions
Of the rest of Sarajevo put to-
gether.
The House That Jack Built
For Jovan Schuschich was one
Of the Serbian BoSniaks whose
conspiracy against Francis Ferdi-
nand in this city made Austria
Hungary impose intolerable de-
mands on Serbia, whose friend
Russia came to her assistance,
which led Germany to mobilize,
causing France to spring to arms,
England to come to the defense Of
Belgian neutrality. America to
fight "to keep the world safe for
democracy" and so on down to
the Hitler revolution in Germany
and the present state Of Europe,
frightened this spring as never be-
fore that the chain Of disaster
may continue.
"Did you know GavriI Princip,
the lad who killed the Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand?"
81 knew Princip."
He gean to walk back and
forth in front of his desk. piled
Will O1A1C1dA PdPcAS'
"Princip and were together
every day anu every night from
the time he arrived in Sara
jevo coward the end Of May,
1914, Until l o'clock in the
morning Of June 2S. He shot
the Archduke 10 hours later.
BUT HE'S BACK :.
''Here, sir, here right where
you stand, here they tortured
me. They crushed three ver-
tebrae in M. backbone"
He kept his hands on the small
Of his back.
Fright he-e they did it.
Now I'm back here. This is
my -.fice.
II knew If I talked 1t was
sure death for me and maybe
for others. / knew If I didn't
talk the might kill me with
torture, but not certainly. So
I didn't talk"
His eyes grew big and lines Of
pain came out around them.
''They tortured me four days.
They beat the sOleS Of my feet
until f,inted. They made me
kneeI naked ON sharp stones
until I tainted. They doubled
me up and chained me into
the shape Of q wheel and rolled
me back and forth until my
backbOn- was crushed and
tainted. I didn't talk.
SEES SAME SPIRIT
"I spent the next four years
In q dungeon. All of us did. So
did Princip. Today am here"
"And what do you think Of
the prospects now? How do you
compare 1914 with 1934?"
The pain lines deepened around
his eyes. He wiped his forehead.
"YOu know, I do see certain
s1milaritieS. Above all, in the
tension, and in the fanaticism Of
tie youth. You've no idea how
hySterical we were in those days.
1t was pathological perhaps. We
lived for nothing but the thought
Of the liberty of our people.
"But we have one thing to
put against the chances Of an.
Othe war coming. And that is
that the war cannot be local
ICED. That is the thing that
SarajevO taught. Don't you
think? Isn't that the real les
son Of SarajevO
"My God, let them learn from
Us from the scars on our bodies
from my own smashed back
bone!
"HOw could we have known.
in our widest dreams, that
such a thing as that war would
come out of SaraievO?
"Never, never could we have
known. But now the world
knows what to think Of local
izing' war. There is no such
thing"
(Tom orroW - Knickerbocker
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