Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-08

later guilty of It herself be adj
mitted to the United Nations?
First, a closer look at the initial
aggression, the Soviet Unions
against Outer Mongolia.
Offense No.
Outer Mongolia during the period
of World War I was being badly
mistreated by Chinese Gen. Hsu
Shao-tseng, whose I0,000-man gar
rison was staging a reign Of terror
from its base in the capital city
Of Urga (now Ulan Bator). On the
invitation of traditional Monaghan
princes. the so-called mad Baron"
Gen. Ungern Won Sternberg,
marched on Urga with 1000 men
and wiped out the Chinese.
Special emissaries of the Mon
golian princes. however. had
already begun canvassing Of the
then world powers for help in
ousting the Chinese. Delegations Of
backward Mongolians had got no.
where with Britain. the United
States and Japan. But the group
sent to Moscow had found the Boil
sheviks extremely attentive. The
Reds promised help to Sukhe Bator.
the Monaghan delegations leader.
But the mad Baron" got to Urga
fustest with the mostest. The dis
gruntled Communists, still posing
as the great friends OF the Mon
golians, set up their first puppet
government in exile in Siberia,
under the nominal leadership of
Sukhe Bator. They began training
an army in exile. too
Rather than sit back and wait for
the inevitable, Gen. Won Sternberg
invaded Siberia and attacked the
new army. His force was trounced
and he himself was killed.
Thus, in 1921. the Soviet Union
found the way open for it to walk
into Outer Mongolia. The Commu-
nists came as great liberators,
working closely with Sukhe Bator.
systematically they uprooted the
Monaghan administration. Young
Mongols who had kept clear Of the
mad Baron" and of the Chinese
Nationalist were allowed to enter
the government. Under Soviet tu-
telage, the Monaghan Peoples Re-
public was set up, along Soviet lines.
Promising young Mongols were sent
to Moscow to study. They came back
and organized Red cadres.
Sukhe Bator, a sort of modern
day Judas Iscariot who had de-
livered his country into the hands
Of an enemy whom he had COM
pletely misjudged. soon had to be
pushed aside. He was fundamentally
a nationalist, not a Communist.
My friend. Franz August Lar
son, sometimes called the Duke Of
Mongolia" visited Sukhe Bator in
1922. two days before he died. The
Soviet Union claims today he was
poisoned by his enemies. The Reds
have made him a great hero. and
refer to him as the father of the
Monaghan revolution.
But when Larson went to see
him. Sukhe Bator was unattended
on his death bed. There was no
doctor. no nurse. although the
Kremlin had sent q large contin-
gent of its army forces to Outer
Mongolia. Sukhe Bator was left to
die in a ragged tent on the out
skirts of Urga.
After having delivered Outer
Mongolia into the hands Of the Rus
slams. Sukhe Bator might have ex-
pected they would at least have
given him an aspirin. Only his wife
was at his side. She alone watched
him fade and die.
Here was Moscow's first case of
aggression. BY a combination Of
subversion and military action, in
Guiding brutal Sayings of Mongo-
Ian princes and local potentates,
the Reds took over Outer Mongolia.
They set up Monaghan figure
head, Sukhe Bator, as the father
of his country" but allowed him to
die quickly. the better to flctional-
lie his part In his country's be-
trayal.
Offense No. z
Outer Mongolia sank farther into
the Soviet orbit during the long
Chinese-Japanese war. The Nip
ponese. at the same time, moved
into Inner Mongolia.
But when World War II came to