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" 18 TRANSPORT STRIKE FULL OF DANGERS Most Sinister Labor l(:wvement Yet| Asks What Is Use of Elections If Result Is Ignored{militarist Seen in London, Liberal Editor Thinks. \ HARD ISSUE FOR PREMIER MacDonald Faces Test or Break ‘With Communists. BY A. G. GARDINER. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, June 7.—London is 2 held up by the transport workers.| ‘The present strike is the most sinister | event that has yet happencd in the industrial history of the community. it is definitely a communist attack on society. It emanates from a small £roup of men engaged in the power- houses of the underground railway system, which supplies three-fourths of the facilities of London traffic. The gravity of the situation is shown by the helplessness of the trade union, which repudiates the strike and denounces it as the work of an unofficial body of communists. The public was taken utterly by sur- prise and was left in general be- wilderment as.to the motive of the strikers. Poxition. pression is that the political demon- | stration. The labor government is in an awkward position. On the one hand, it is called on to take measures to protect the vital interests of the public. On the other band, it hesitates to take steps, which will tend to ring them in collision with their communist _supporters. Ministers take cover by explaining that s things are inevitable until railways are nationalized. Soomer or later Prime Minister MaeDonald will .be compelled to de- cide whether he can afford to con- tinue his alliance with the Commu- nists, whose aims are revolutionary and who have nothing in common with the moderate policy of the gov- ernment. In Ba The writer's i strike is purely Like a Dog's Tail. The Labor party is like a large, sober dog afflicted with a violent tail which gives it no rest and which it is afraid to disown. i Political attention here is occupied | with the ing in Yaris. reles in London the impression prevails that France is trembling on the brink of some sort of an adventure in fascism and that the result of the election may be countered by a coup d'etat by reactionary forces. Liberal opin- ion is deeply disappointed at the de- cision of Edouard Herriot not to form a government, although his decision is understood in view of Millerand's attitude and his notorious tendencies toward converting the presidency into a dictatorship. Hopes for Herriot. High hopes had been raised by the policy foreshadowed by M. Herriot, | who not only indorsed the Dawes | scheme, but indicated an entirely new | attitude toward the league of nations s an instrument for making France safe and pacifying Europe. The new turn of affairs leaves the outlook much more problematical. If behind M. Millerand clerical and militarist influences are mobilizing for a political coup, prospects for cor co-operation between England and France on the basis of the Dawes schemes are seriously prejudiced. The tide of visitors to London is now at full blast, and. in spite of the bad weather, attendances to the ‘Wembly exposition arc unprecedented in magnitude. The success of the Vast enterprise is assured, and a pro- posal is being seriously considered to reopen the exhibition next year. All London went out Wednesday to see the Derby, which was run in a ceaseless downpour of rain. The vic- tory of Lord Derby’s horse was very popular. " His family gave name to the world's most famous race, and it had been trying unavailiigly to win it for 137 years. (Copyright, 1924, by Consolidated Press.) gl DUNCAN’S PARIS COLONY OUSTED BY LANDLORD By Cable to The Star and New York and New York World. PARIS, June 7.—The benevolent communism practiced here by Ray- mond Duncan—brother of Isadora— has failed to be self supporting, and an unsympathetic landlord is about to dispossess it. He procured a writ' of expulsion from the French courts this afternoon. Raymond has conspicuous figure in Paris for nearly twenty years, chiefly on account of his flow- ing Greek costume for street wear. A few vears ago ho started a com- munist colony In the heart of the fashionable Champs Elysees quarter, where he rented expensive premises. He boasted that he turned no offe away—man, woman or child—who asked him for a lodging and food. He simply demanded in return that they work for the collectivity. Duncan organized a theater, gave lectures and dancing exhibitions il- lustrating Greek lifc. The household between peeling potatoes and other practical work and ancient religious and pagan ceremonies, performing Greek plays and ising handicrafts of a lucrative nature. They likewise wore Greek robes and walked bare legged and bare headed in the street, Aesthetically ave been a success, but it hasn't worked. U. S. CEDAR LOSES OUT. been it v h practically German Pencil Makers Get Supply r From East Africa. NUREMBERG, Germany, June Fast Africa has replaced the United States as the source of supply of cedar for the Nuremberg pencil in- dustry. This German industry, which centers here. has fully recovered from the after effects of the war and in trade circles it is reported that the manufacturers have enough foreign orders on hand to keep the plants in_full operation many months. Both the cedar and the graphite for pencils are imported, the main graphite supply being found in Si- beria. Previous to 1914 the cedar was imported principally from America and the West Indies, but the war up- sot the old channel of trade and new flelds in East Africa have been de- veloped. WOMEN TO HOLD BAZAAR. Articles to Be Sold for Benefit of Mount Alto Veterans. Members of the George Baldwin McCoy Unit of the American Women's Legion will hold a bazaar Tuesday afternoon in the lobby of the Evan- geline Hotel, 1330 L street, at which urticles will be sold for the benefi- claries of the United States Veterans' hospitalized in Mount Alto The bazaar will be from Bureau, . Hospital. 3 to 7 pm. Due to the inclement weather at the time the unit held its garden party at the hospital, many articles made by the patients remained un- sold. All of the articles are products af the disabled veterans of the world war who are in Mount Alto Hospital. Mrs. Walter 1. McCoy, wife of the chief justice, mother of the Washing- ton man in whose memory the unit is named, is president of the George Baldwin McCoy Unit. In the conduct bazaar Tuesda: Harden Sees Voters’ In Return of THE_SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0. JUNE &, 190 PART 1 L A A A R A A T R g A R R A A A R T T A T Will Flouted Marx as Chancellor When It Is Unpleasant to Leaders of Political (Copyright 1924, the Conselidated Frees’ Anctation. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Special Correspondence of The Star. BERLIN, June 7.—When the town hall of Bapume was wantonly de- stroyed by the German army a poster was struck up bearing the word “Don't get angry—only marvel! Germans now have painful occasion to remember this sarcastic advice to the French, for ever since peace was declared this same wanton sabotage has been going on in German in- ternal politics. Marx Selection Mockery. Today, when the money scarcity, high prices intense suffering of the middle classes and general ecomomic chaos demand rapld and far-sighted action, four weeks have been wasted in forming a cabinet, and after all, Chancellor Marx returns to power. He never had a secure tenure, and now that his party has just been de- feated at the polls, his selections are & mockery of parliargentary gover ment. Neither the numerically | MILLERAND FIGHTING FRENCH INSTABILITY Opposes Principle That President Loses Office When Parliament Control Changes. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, June 7.—The present presi- dential crisis in France is purely| political in origin and rises a grave | constitutional problem. The French constitution provides that the Pre: dent, except in not respo e Nalways countersigned by ister. ‘What M. Millerand's apponents are trying to do is to hold him re- sponsible, not only for his acts, but also for his presumed opinions. This would mean that hemceforth every parliamentary majority then not only the ministry, but the president, must change also, tion in the French constitutional sys- tion in the French constitution sys- | tem. It must be remembcred that the | position of French presidents is en- tirely different from that of American presidents. Under the law of 1875, a “rench president has no active part| in the government except to choose | 4 new premier when the government is overthrown and even then he must consult parliamentary leaders. Hav- ing no active power, he has no re- sponsibility. This principle has been preserved intact except ior Marshal MacMahon's resignation in 1877. 1877 Precedent Invoked. M. Millerand’s adversaries have not failed to invoke the MacMahon prec- edent, but the president’s answer ‘was that the precedent is inapplicable ince the recent elections were mot Bue to, dissolution of the chamber. as in 1877. Moreover, M. Millerand did not intervene in the campaign, while MacMahon personally took part. | The writer attended 200 meetings and did not hear Millerand's name men- tioned. Therefore, Millerand’s _opponents | have ill chosen their ground. Their hostility is based on the fact that they know, or suppose, he is opposed to certain articles in their platform and want to get rid of him. It is therefore a mere partisan battle, | which is something new under the| French constitution. There has been much talk that if| other expedients fail President Mil- lerand might confer power on M. Maginot. The latter could not get a majority in the chamber and his defeat would inevitably mean M. Mil- lerand's resignation. ~On the other hand, if M. Maginot attempted to read a decree of adjournment or closure Without debate, it would be practi-| cally impossible to prevent some | deputy from getting on the floor and | starting a discussion which would | end in a vote overthrowing the cabi- i "I, however, M. Maginot succeeded in reading a decree of closure, It would mean nothing unless it was fol- jowed by a decree of dissolution which would require the approval of the Senate and would simply create an agitation without any definite result. Millernnd Took Easiest an. erefore, only two possible issues are oo M. Maginot is chosen premier _the will be dissolution and resignation of Maginot is neither of sonal forcefulness noj cient political support to be more than Millerand's message bearer to chamber. o . Millerand's _decision was transmitted, three weeks ~ago, resist pressure to resign as far as possible, the question had not become fo acute as it has since the caucus of the cartel des gauches. The pubs lic is most interested in the personal aspeets of the situation, but far more important is the underlying constitu- tional problem which aftects the whole future From a pol is one conclusion: Had initiative when Premier e ed last February and a min- time a sufficient per- has he suffi- differently v ve arisen. Pt no'uhfi‘lemd took the eastest course and M. Poincare calmly allow- ©ed the Left cartel to be formed under his nose after M. Clemenceau had shattered it to pieces in 1919. 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The effect can only be to depreciate still further democratic institutions and to inflame the indignation of those who had supposed they won. In such a situation the opportunity is ripe ations and coups d'etat, lor Seipel of Austria has been wounded by an assassin at the very moment the Berlin courts were judging the assailants of Gen. von Seeckt and the writer. As the vietim of the latter affair, the writer can only say that twenty years ago August Strindberg of Sweden said that if Harden was ever forced to drink hemlock it would be for Spcrates’ crime, for, like the great Athenian, he could also say: *I am not an atheni (German) but a citizen of the world.” Devotes, Life to State. Seipel might say the same. This Catholic _priest, “who lives in monastery und attends mass every morning at 5 o'clock and then goes i, who has no private v religious cultural convic- done immense gzood to his but he has also aroused the enmity of the nationalists. He is po superman, but he has a level head, and he never hesitates to realize that Austria was defeated and must bear the consequences. Germany might -be in a bearable situation today had she imtrusted her destinies to @ Selpel. She preferred, however, to leave them to a Von Seeckt This son of a general whose hard hand was ance felt in Posen, is & t. product of German militarism. is tall, thin, with a small head, and is flexible and cunning. He is a good soldier, though without cultural varnish. In the war he was first sent eastward, where he ha ish Enver military f % and_then parade—Gen. and_directed the cam- n against Serbia. He was re- led from Versailles for advising an abrupt rupture of negotiations. Fears Ludendorfr. Despite ali this, and despitg the faot that after the Kapp putsch from which he abstained because he was not on good terms with Gen. Laden- dorff, Von Seeckt made a speech to students in which he spoke of ‘“the coming day of revenge” and the government made him chief of t! army, thus pilacing all of German: forces in the hands of a monarochist. He might already have attempted something but for the fact that the army itself is opposed to restoration of the monarchy, which would mean restoration of conscription and abol- shment of army pay, while Von Sceckt doubt fears’ also that a | monarch place his _rival, Ludendorfr, all nationalist intrigues But nevertheless he made energetic efforts to get the nationalists’ seats in the cabinet, knowing they would hinder the forward march of the Ludendorff-Hitler factions. And so thus we have an imperial general who today is showing more foresight than the politicians who merely cling to office, and so the same old motto appliesy “Den’t get angry—only. marvel” FRANCE NOW FACES DANGEROUS CRISIS Reastionaries and “Red” Revolutionists Watching Chanoe for Action. -BY WILLIAM BIRD. By Radle ts The Star. +.PARIS, June 7.—Militarist reaction- aries on one hand and “red” revolu- tionists on the other are eagerly watching ‘their chance to intervene in the most dangerous crisis France has faced In nearly fifty years. All the last five years of patient ' work of rebullding European peace may be swept away at any moment in the flaring up of strife unless mod- erate counsels prevail in the quarrel between the veteran President Mil lerand and a small band of insurgen in the Chamber of Deputies, who de- mand his resignation. Edouard Herriot, to whom the writer talked only Wednesday and who is the most reasonable of men and personally anxious for concila- tion, has been swept off his feet by the intransigeance of the extremists among his followers 5o that now he will be obliged to follow therp instead of leading them. Agatast Owa Judgment. His refusal to form & cabinet was against his own judgment, but he knew a sufficient fraction of his fol- lowers would Aesert him if he took the portfolio from Millerand’s hands and would throw him over on the first vote of confidence. There are at present only three pos- sibilities as political observers see the situation: 1. Resignation of President Mil- lerand and capitulation to the de- mands of the extremists, which is re- garded as highly unlikely. 2. Appointment of a “strong man” such as War Minister Maginot to the premiership with a mission to adjourn parliament and carry on the govern- ment by virtula dictato: lerate members to form a with the bloc national. Hurrying to Paris. The latter course Is the one on which M. Millerand is working at the moment. Senator Steeg, who was M. Millerand's minister of the interior and right-hand man in 1920, and who belongs to the left group, is hurrying to Paris from a trip to the colonles and it is predicted that Millerand will ask him to consult his colleagues and see if he can gather a majority of the chamber behind him. It ix under- stood that his government would be preponderantly conservative and the result would be to cheat the left car- tel of its recent victory at the polls. If this maneuver fails—as it very well may—then M. Millerand will be forced to the alternative of establish- ing a virtual dictatorship. It is this possibility which is causng the deep- est apprehenson here. French public opinion. which was reconciled with- out difficulty to the prospect of a left government, would strongly re- sent any Mussolinian tendency and it is not too much to predict that in such event he would precipitate riots and resistance with possible wravest con- sequences to internal peace. Remember Street Riots. . There are many Parisians still liv- ing who remember street riots and barricades with less provocation. Needless to say, Germans are watching these events with the keen- est_curiosity and, indeed, whichever way things turn out, it appears likely that Germany wiil benefit. The British labor government alréady had Stretched the hand of welcome across the English Channel to Herriot and his- socialist kers and, robbing them o ftheir electoral victory by craft or force will scarcely strength- en the Anglo-French entente. (Copyright, 1934.) more majority T T P P A R T T 2 2 P 2o ) lish broadcloth. “to match. lish broadcloth. 16Y4. More of those Athletic Union Suits 69¢ An offering that went like wildfire, causing’ us to bring in another ship- ment. If you didn’t get in on the last deal, take a hand now. Sizes 34 to 46. | Shure, They're a’'Wearin’ of the Green! With Separate Soft Collar to Match The Newest English .Broadcloth Shirts Are Green $1. 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