Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1930, Page 27

WISER HEADS DOUBT U. S. 'TARIFF AIDS BRIAND PLAN QOutery in Europe Believed Momentary, While Opposition to Federation Is Deep-Seated. BY WILLIAM BIRD. ARIS—A few months ago a prom- inent French statesman told this writer that “the European fed- eration is impossible in the pre: ent state of the world. The ni tions would never unite except against & common enemy and European na- tions have no common enemy.” Listening to what the Europeans have fo say today. one is almost persuaded that a common enemy has been found. The outcry against the American tariff is practically unanimous, violent pro- tests being heard on all sides, with the direst predictions for America’s future and threats of drastic repr . In many cases these Jeremiads are ac- companied by appeals for united European action with the argument that Europe, having double the population ot the Dnited States, can by presenting & solid front not only resist so-called American imperalism, but supplant America in the world markets. Certainly not since the World War, Rot even during the war debt negotia- , has European feeling run so strongly and unitedly against America. A superficial observer might be con- vinced that the impetus for the feder- ation was now overwhelming and the Tealization of Aristide Briand's dream | around the corner. But the wiser md: know that these waves of resent- | are momentary, while the causes of | division among the European nations | are deep-seated and can be uprooted only by long and patient labor. Tariff Taken as Symptom. ‘The new American tariff is indeed regarded by economists as a symptom rather than a contributing cause of the *onrushing world economic crisis, for while blame may be laid on the tariff when American’ importations continue to decline at an accelerated rate, it is felt that the decline was bound to come anyway on account of diminished American purchasing power. Retali- atory measures in Europe can admit- tedly accomplish little beyond raising Germany's fiscal crisis, which this week forced the resignation of the | finance minister, is regarded as an omi- nous sign, coming as it does at the very moment when the Rhineland is being |evacuated and all foreign restrictions on Germany's government financing are being removed. Many hold that the day is approaching with rapid strides when the whole structure of Europesn finance, so painfully elaborated in the 12 years since the war, will break down. ‘The decline in American loans abroad, the reductions in American im- portations and the diminishing num- bers of American tourists, with a heavy reduction in their average expenditures in Europe, are rapidly causing bankers to wonder where Europe will continue to obtain the dollars for the payment of her American war credits. Similarly, Germany, with her unprecedented un- employment, curtalled exports and un- balanced budget, will soon be con- strained, it is feared, to defer her Young plan annuities, and the vicious circle of defanlts will begin. American Course Unknown. What will America, as the sole cred- itor, do? That question, which seemed theoretical only a few years ago, ap- pears likely to become an extremely practical one before long. If the United States insists upon the letter of her bond, then the European federation will appear almost inevitable and it will not be merely a customs ring, as many now conceive it, but a political and military alliance. International bankers are losing sleep nightly over these problems, nor are their fears quieted by reflection that times of crises are always the most favorable for the propagation of revo- lutionary ideas. The Italian Fascists seem convinced that the time is ap- proaching when their remedy for bol- shevism will be in world demand. Critica Fascista this week published an article, apparently approved in high quarters, urging that the time is now ripe to spread the Fascist doctrine be- yond Italian boundaries. Europe’s already high cost of living. (Copyright, 1930.) Less Than Month Remains for Replies By Nations to Briand on Federation has_expressed his gesire %o get replies no later than No_official replies to the four points Taised by Briand have yet been r;zll'x:fld the gn A:“Omy. But one after 4 visit and had a | with his old friend Briand. CalBer _ d’Hostroy, ibassador, asked for an audi. ’ncel‘lzed mln the solemn oreign office overlook: Politis, M‘:lnlmr of Gmelcng hour Briand’s study discussing the possibility of making the | idea of union popular in . l!.:s'-i Balkans. Iyrell exposed the of the government, Von | those of the German reich. General Approval Seen. According to information on authority all the envoys of the Eu Tate ys he European spent their govern- ments were favorable to his i an: intended to reply to it formally in the | Dearest future. In fact it would be | difficult for them to refuse their assist- | ance to Briand. He has tactfully re. | frained from raising in the memoran- | the vital points interesting bas merely : One, tentative formula of “an pact of European moral ly, convoke a European | ppoint a permanent | , to agree on a work, and four, ethods of European co- None of the European countries could put forward any opposition to these | points. For all of them—those satis- | fled with the present status and those | it—the rtunit | mflna i y, to meet | ‘This egnfereneemwm take place 1!1’ Geneva during tl League’s Septem- ber session. But the ohsuc]up will | saying, come later, and he, himself, as well as the diplomats, who have helped him with his scheme realize it only too well. ‘When the actual parleys on a United States of Europe begin the gap will at once become apparent between the states who want to maintain their fron- tiers and those who strive to change them. The latter will be Germany, Hungary, Italy and perhaps Bulgaria. The Quai d'Orsay has been informed already by numerous reports of the French representatives in these coun- tries of the demands which are likely to be put forward by the delegates. Cites German Reaction. In Germany even the Socialist lead- |ers have widely declared no European regime of inferiority between the vic- torious and vanquished nations were maintained. Voices have arisen to claim he Danzig Corridor and a rearmament of the German state. The greatest hostility against the idea of a European federation is expected to come from Italy, which is showing extraordinary activity in reorganizing what is called in diplomatic circles here “a trust of the discontented,” whereas until now Italian overtures to Germany with a view to an Italo-German rapprochement have | gl nze!n met with particular favor in rlin. Hungary's government is known to have almost thrown its lot into Ttaly's hands. The relations between the two countries, which are both ready to fight for the present status quo, are so close that they could be called a practical military and economic alliance. Any visitor to Count Bethlen's house could | see in his salon an enormous portrait of I Duce with his signature, “Devotis- simo, Benito Mussolini.” 1t is understood here that, stimulated by Italian support, the Hungarian gov- ernment intends to include in the reply to Briand's memorandum a sentence “Hungary will not join any organization based on the present status quo.” If such points are raised from the beginning of the concrete work aim- ing at a federating of Europe it may easily be foreseen what immense diffi- culties Briand will find in his way. But the veteran statesman does not fear difficulties. He has coped with many before the signature of the | Locarno treaty and the Kellogg pact. He is confident now, despite all the obstacles that may arise, that the germ of his idea, helped by American protec- tionism, will develop and grow to give some day, which perhaps he will ncll even witness, useful and abundant fruit. Former Senator Reed “Impossible” As 1932 Presidential Candidate (Continued From Pirst Page.) functions with the comfort of a man who knows his own scope and with beneficence to the world. And there Young has said he proposes to remain. Probably he is wise and probably his decision is for the greater good of the future world. Mr. Young is engaged in an extremely important enterprise look- ing to the smoother and larger func- tioning of international relations. That is a work that is open to suspicion, sqmetimes real, sometimes pretended, from men in the world of politics who make capital out of ineiting suspicion | against other nations. If Young should enter politics he would inevitably bring | his cause with him, to the great disad- vantage of the vause. Think how Jim Reed, in Young’s own party, and Hiram in the Republican party, would attack Young and the Bank for International Settlements and every other mmflu for facilitating inter- national tions. Young, as an as- mm for the Presidency, would be | “: leces as Woodrow Wilson was, and carnage international amity ‘would inevitably be set back. Gov. Smith could get the Democratic | momination if he and his friends should to go after it. He would | encounter less bitterness of opposition | he did in 1928, and in the he would suffer less discrimi- | against him. Religious prejudice seems, 10 a degree, to run counter to Shakespeare’s rule. It does not always by what it feeds upon. The phe- nomenon of religious controversy usual- -has its climax in its first manifesta- waves are milder. gone that P. A. movement arose 1887 and was strongest in the s 1900 there was little of ‘The Ku Klux Klan has followed the Klan as there was five or six ago. Probably history will say climax of the Klan movement somewhere between 1924 and 1928. in Party Control. if he should want to go nomination, would have is Control of the party ma- want the nomination again. He is a generous man—generosity, “playing the game.” has been part of the cause of his political career. And there is a call on his generosity which runs in favor of %rewnt Gov. Franklin Roosevelt of New ork. Mr. Roosevelt to the endanger- ing of his health in 1928, lived up to a r!?u&t from Gov. Smith that Roose- velt should run for Governor of New York on the same ticket with Smith as a candidate for President, with the pur- pose of strengthening the ticket in New York State. That is the sort of service of friendship that Gov. Smith repays. And the friendly attitude of Gov. Smith is but one of several factors which work powerfully toward making Gov. Roose- velt the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency. Yet is is by no means certain. The drys in the Democratic party are more powerful and determined than New York City thinks. New York has never at any time given to the drys in the Democratic South adequate credit for the {ll-fated 1924 Democratic national convention that was held in New York City, the Democratic press of New York, the Tammany followers in the galleries | of the convention, and the whole atmos- phere of the city, took the view that the dry delegates from the South and ‘West were merely stubborn “hicks,” de- priving New York City’s hero, Gov. Smith, of a nomination to which New York thought he was entitled, which New York City felt absolutely he would get. The sincerity of the South, its patience and courage that would hold out in a hostile atmosphere for nearly three weeks, was never understood by New York. Attitude of South. The Democratic South does not think of Gov. Roosevelt as a violent wet. But they think of him as a New Yorker, as one having the favor of Tammany, and as necessarily, therefore, to put it in the mildest way, a long distance from | dry. It is quite possible for the South- ern drys to have a candidatae of their own and to stand behind him with as much firmness as they did in 1924. There are at least three leaders who could fill this role for the Democratic ntee i I probably sate sy seg that prol e to it Senator Joseph Iugl.nmn of A“!Lfllll :‘fm to the an_.l. ‘The elevation life o ‘hinery eounts. But persons well equipped to know _3 8x-Cov. Smith's mind, say he does not the sincerity the drys actually feel, In |d 1930—PART TW Doctor, Postman, Preacher BY CAPT. CECIL M. GABBETT, For Thirty Years an Officer in the United States Coast Guard, As Told to Earl Chapin May. HE last duty of a Coast Guard cutter each year on the Alaska patrol is to visit Nome and con- voy the last passenger steamer as far south as Unimak Pass. One year my command, the Algonquin, arrived at Nome the last week of Octo- ber. Ice was forming in the high latitude, the thermometer during the next five months of severe Winter weather would not rise above 32 degrees, and 22 hours of darkness each day was nearing. I went ashore expecting to renew old acquaintances and spend the last four days of our seven months' cruise in pleasure. Instead, I was hustled to a meeting of the mayor, chamber of com- the mayor said, “for two months we have tried to get a boat to Kotzebue Sound to bring out three women, five children and eight men. ‘They are at Kiwalic without food to last them through the Winter. Unless they are brought out they will die of starvation. You are our only hope.” Kotzebue Sound is on the Arctic Cir- cle. Winter was steadily approaching. ‘The Algonquin is a steel 210 feet long. No steel vessel had ever gone up into the Arctic Ocean that late in the year. The officers thought that I was mad even to consider such a trip, but what was I to do? think over your proposition. If I am still anchored in your open roadstead at sunrise I have turned down your re- quest. If I am not there, you will know that I have gone to carry out our mis- sion.” Back on board, I sent a cable to ‘Washington stating the conditions and requesting permission to make the cruise. Unless directed not to proceed, T said, I would sail at daylight. No an- swer came, so we salled at dawn. I ordered all possible speed. Retcued Group Had Doubted God. The next noon we entered Kotzebue Sound and anchored 8 miles off Kiwalic, a little trading post of a dozen inhab- itants. The bay was frozen over, and BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following is a brief summary of the most important news of the world for the seven days ended June 21: GREAT BRITAIN.—The British gov- ernment has disapproved the project of a Channel tunnel, on both military and onomic grounds. e‘:'I‘he cld‘;lbm!t post of secretary of state for dominions and colonies has been split and there is now a secretary of state for the dominions and a secre- tary of state for the colonies. J. H. Thomas ceases to be lord privy seal and takes the former post, especially important at present because of prep- arations for the coming imperial con- ference, and Lord Passfield, hitherto secretary of state for dominions and colonies, becomes secretary of state for the colonies. Vernon Hartshorn, Labor member of the Simon committee, has been appointed lord privy seal. The problem of unemployment, to which since June last year Mr. Thomas has devoted himself, is henceforth to be handled by a committee, of which Mr. Thomas will be a member. His dominion contacts are expected to be useful in that connection. Noel Buxton has been created a peer and has been succeeded as minister of agriculture by Dr. Christopher Addison. Ben Turner has been succeeded as secretary of state for mines by Emanuel Shinwell, who held that post in the previous Labor government. The Nottingham parliamentary bye- election on May 27 resulted in decisive victory for the Conservative candidate and defeat of the Labor candidate on the clearly marked issue of free trade versus protection. Nottingham is the center of the lace industry. The other day Mr. Snowden abolished the safe- guarding duties on laces. In the last general elections the Conservative can- idate won the seat with 14,570 votes, against 11,520 for the Laborite and 8,740 for the Liberal. On May 27 the Conservative recelved 14,950 votes, against 7,920 for the Laborite and 4,650 for the Liberal. A few days later the Conservative candidate won the West Fulham bye- election, his only opponent being & Laborite, the withdrawing Liberal can- didate advising his followers to vote against socialism. The main issue ap- pears to have been the failure of the Labor government in degling with un- employment. The English political scene is becom- ing more and more confused, reminding one of Arthur’s “last, dim weird battle of the west” where “friend and foe were shadows in the mist.” ‘The two great London Liberal news- papers, the Daily News and the Daily ten in fairly high esteem. Today and for some years past Senator Robinson has been the official leader of his party in the Senate. To take that role and live up to it adequately involves, nec- essarily, growth. And Senator Robin: son's capacity for growth is the char- tic of him that has “‘Gentlemen,” I said, “give me time to | Britain, my heart nearly stopped when failure' United seemed ahead of us. But we rigged an ice plow on the bow of the launch, and the ship’s doctor and myself started shoreward with a whale boat in tow. Slowly but surely we worked up the frozen bay, and found our charges on the dock. An hour was lost in collecting personal belongings, then back to the little white ship, One of the woman passengers said that they had prayed and prayed, but as the weeks passed they were beginning to think that there was no God in the Arctic region. Our return trip, as far as the Bering Straits, was uneventful, but as the Dio- mede Islands were sighted a treach- erous, blinding snowstorm overtook us, d we were lost in the Arctic Ocean ;nthought of what the lady had said about God, but never lost faith in the good ship that had fought in the war zone from the beginning to the end without a scratch. And finally we made the Bering Sea successfully, and con- tinued on to Nome, bringing the storm with us. The last steamer had been held from sailing, and our mission was & success. ‘That was only one of the many mis- sions that the Coast Guard has under- taken and concluded successfully on the Alaska patrol. Its work in these far- away regions and the beneficence of its ministrations to the native population form a bright chapter in the history of the service. Fleet Protects Seal and Otter. . It is to enforce the convention of 1911 between the United States, Great , Russia and Japan that the Coast Guard annually sends a fleet of vessels into Alaskan waters and the Arctic Ocean. This convention was for the protection of the fur seal and the sea otter and the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of game, the fisheries and fur-bearing animals of Alaska. But while engaged in these duties the Coast Guard also finds time to furnich transportation to government officials and al authorities, school teachers, destitutes, natives and others; it trans- ts the Unitec States mails; it delivers | food and other supplies to the isolated settlements; it succors persons in need; it assists vessels in distress; it provides medicine and medical treatment for na- tives, and it administers the laws of the States. Chronicle, have combined as the Dally | News and Chronicle. * k¥ GREECE—On _June 10 there was signed a Greco-Turkish accord settling | the most vital matters in issue between the two states. On the same day, ad- dressing the Greek Chamber of Depu- ties, Premier Venizelos spoke hopefully of the project of a Balkan federation. ‘The ~ restoration of the exquisite Erechtheum at Athens by M. Balanos, the Greek architect, in co-operation with the eminent German archeologist, Herr Doerfeld, two-thrids of the stone used being antique, is reported to be a glorious achievement. The work of re- storing the Parthenon goes on apace under the direction of M. Balanos. The other day eight columns were erected on the northern front, completing the | columnar restoration of that front. * % X ¥ INDIA.—I had proposed a narrative of events in India since early May, but on better judgment making, I relin- quish the idea. Our trustworthy data are 0o meager; ’tis at best a vast, fan- tastic, kaleidoscopic picture. It seems scarcely bellevable that the progress of the “civil disobedience” movement, with its raid on salt pans, its picketings of cloth and liquor shops, its refusals to pay taxes, its monster processions, its propaganda, its this and that, has answered the expectations of Mahatma Gandhi. The police and soldiery seem to have behaved with exemplary courage and extraordinary restraint. They have fired only in the last resort, then ordinarily using buck- shot and aiming low; the total of deaths and serious injuries is small. On the whole, the Moslems have shown themselves loyal to the British Raj. There have been bloody Moslem-Hindu clashes requiring intervention by sol- diers and police; the regular thing, only more so. The bloodiest episode of all—the lurid Rangoon affair—had no connection whatever with the Gandhi movement. The relation between the disorders in the northwest frontier province and the Gandhi movement is tenuous. The Pathans, of whom the most prominent is a gentleman hight, y see in the general unrest opportunity to satisfy their” lust for plunder and blood, and they lred. ob\‘lloully B‘éor);:d uj pagan rom ~ EBombay -fi'&" ug.ywsro As to Moscow, there is a “red shirt” association, an Indian e neral e force 1o kept b orce is kept busy pro- the Pathans and DY | egt; the struggle a of the tribesmen seems fairly refrig- ted. erated. It will be recalled that upon the in- carceration of Gandhi active leadership of the civil disobedience movement to Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, a poet- pleased to call herself an Arc. On May 21 the It does other things, too. Once I was traveling on a transcontinental train. In the smoker a man introduced himself and told me that he was a minister from a small town in Missouri. I told him that I was a sailor, but had fre- quently served as a minister. “How strange,” he said, “tell me how that happens.” So I related this little in- cident. I was sent to Alaska in command of a cutter, and was appointed a United States commissioner for the Tterritory. ‘This commission qualified me to marry either whites or natives. One morning while my vessel was lying alongside the dock at a small village, Johnny Mec- Bride and Lotta Fish came on board and asked to be married. I was very much taken back, for I had never per- formed a wedding before. But I told them to return in an hour with two wit- nesses and I would perform the cere- mony. I searched our library for a prayer book and read over the marriage service many times. When the white couple returned I made out the neces- sary papers and performed the cere- mony. As this was my first experience as a minister, I was very proud of it and invited the wedding party to dinner in the cabin that night. Shortly after- ward the bride and groom left for the “States.” Six months expired, and T learned that McBride had left his wife to follow the sea for a living. Four months later I heard that he was a bigamist and had deserted his first wife and 3-week- old baby in the South. Another six months expired and he was in San Quentin prison for robbing a United States post office in a Western town. All of my egotism left me. My friend in the Pullman smoker was so interested and so sympathetic that I decided to tell him of a native marriage that took place in Alaska. One da; while at anchor off St. Paul Island, ‘which is one of the Pribilof sea islahds in the Bering Sea, I was called on deck. There I found Peter Crow, an Aleut na- tive. ‘Captain, take me Unalaska,” he sald. “Catch a wife.” I asked him if he had ever been to | Unalaska, or if he knew any one there. “No, captain, but I catch a wife. You take me?” I told him that we were 240 miles from that village and that we would port, soon to appear. Sir William Bird- | wood, commander in chief of the forces in Indip, declares that the Indian con- tingents are entirely loyal. In their extensive employment of mendacious propaganda the Swarajists are paying the West the flattery of imitation. * Lord Irwin has announced that gen- eral elections for a new legislative as- sembly will be held in September, that the council of state will soon be dis- solved, and that elections to a new council will be held concurrently with the elections to & new assembly. ‘The rainy season has halted the raids on the salt works. The disobedience movement is now concentrating on tax evasion and the government is dealing vigorously therewith, attaching mov- able property of evaders, etc. e CHINA.—Dispatches of June 14 told of success of the drive toward Wuchang (after capture of Yochow) of the chief of the three north-advancing columns of force of the Kwangsi group. But re- ports of June 17 told a different story, rout of these Southerners, the fugitives betaking themselves toward Nanchang and Kiukiang, recovery by the National- ists, apparently commanded by Chan; Kai-Shek in person, of Yochow, even of Changsha. Dispatches relating to the Non{)ern battlefield are conflicting, as usual Again our old friend Wu Pel Fu comes into the picture, announcing from his retreat in far Szechwan that he pro- poses to go down to Hankow and medi- ate, forcibly mediate, or something of that sort. Sun Chuan Feng is also alive and kicking somewhere. * K % % UNITED STATES—On June 14 the House passed the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, 222 to 153. On the 17th the Presi- dent signed it. ‘To put it softly, Europe is profoundly displeased. W. Cameron Forbes of Boston, one- time governor general of the Philip- pines, has been nominated by President Hoover to be our Ambassador to Japan. On June 16 Elmer Sperry, the in- ventor, died in his 70th year. He took out nearly 400 patents, several for in- ventions of quite extraordinary im- portance, and was, indeed, a very great inventor. He invented the gyro com- pass, eliminating the variations due to the earth’'s magnetism; “Metal Mike,” the automatic steersman, which keéps a ship on a set course; the gyroscopic device for stabilizing shpis, airplanes |10} and aerial torpedoes, etc., says Secretaly of the Navy Adams. “It is safe to say that no one Amer- ican has contributed so much to our naval technical ess.” ‘We are all following with eager inter- mong_sundry yacl for the honor of defending the Amer- ica’s Cup against the effort of Sir ‘Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock V to re- cover the famous trophy for old Eng- land. Four new boats have been built for said honor, and the trial contests began on May 12, when the new Enter- prise beat the glorious old Resolute, the next day beating, though less decisively, the Vanitie, the Resolute’s unsuc competitor for the role of defender against Shamrock IV, but since then mmm ly successful in numerous races ot Hitti These Are but Few of the Roles U. S. Coast Guard Must Play on Bleak Shores of Arctic ‘Alaska ASSISTING VESSELS IN DISTRESS IS ONE OF THE COAST GUARD’S DUTIES IN THE ALASKAN PATROL. bekthere only three days while ys,' tch a wife easy.” So I told him to come on board at sunrise the next day. In this Far Northern country of ours the only transportation is that furnished by the Coast Guard. After a day’s run we made fast to the dock at Unalaska and as Peter went ashore I warned him that we were sailing in three days. Peter smilingly replied, “Captain, I led you know when catch a wife.” Late that afternoon I was walking through this village, which has 300 natives and about a dozen whites, and I saw my passenger. He was looking pretty sad, but he was still on the lookout for prospective brides. days later Peter came on board and asked to see me. He had “caught” a wife. She turned out to be a big, healthy girl, about 16 years old, from the Jessie Lee Home. Peter asked me to come to the wedding at 6 o'clock the next morning, and said that he and his wife would be on board by 9 o’clock to sail for the seal islands. They were married by a Methodist minister, who Two | & a 3 HIDDEN HAND OF MOSCOW TERROR OF SOVIET ENEMIES Kidnaping of Gen. Koutiepov 'in Paris Five Months Ago Follows Exposures Causing Near Break. BY ALEXANDER I. NAZAROFF, Author of “Tolstoy, the Inconstant Geni\ reported various corners of the world by the European e again have called to life the old and much debated question of the se- cret activity of the agents of the Third International and of the G. P. U., political Soviet polidy, outside of Rus- sia. As, somewhat melodramatically, the editor of a leading Paris daily puts n of & year den hand of Moscow again makes itself felt in the world.” This “secret hand,” we are told, veals itself in dissimiliar ways. The violent Communist riots in Berlin and Hamburg in the Fall of 19290 and the charges made by Grover Whalen while he York City, accusing American Com- munists of or?nm.n‘ labor demonstra- tions in New York in keeping with the orders received from, and with the money lufplud by, Moscow—such is one set of facts. There are, however, facts of an entirely different and of a more sensational nature, too. Two years ago some of the Russian anti-Soviet newspapers published in Paris and Berlin asserted that one Traikewicz, a Polish national, had been' lured into the Soviet embassy in War- saw and killed there. Few paid any attention to this state- ment; the thing seemed too fantastic to believe, but a year later some wit- nesses testified at a political trial in Berlin that they knew of cases when various persons were murdered in the Soviet embassy in that city. The tes- timony of these witnesses was checked; the government of the Reich apparently was unwilling to start a scandal, but two Berlin newspapers came out with articles repeating and reaffirming the charges. Moreover, they added that a real secret branch of the Moscow G. P. U. regularly functioned in this em- bassy, profiting by the protection of extraterritoriality which it afforded. Mysterious Disappearances. Yet the most mysterious case of the series occurred just five months ago. It was the disappearance in broad day- light in the streets of Paris of Gen. A. Koutiepov, an outstanding Russian “White" emigre who resided in France. The French police worked day and night trying to solve the riddle of his isappearance. Finally it was estab- lished that he had been kidnaped, taken in an automobile to a desolate shore in Normandy and transported to a foreign steamer which was lying not far off in the sea. The steamer i ately started off for an unknown destination. The police learned even more, and al- though theg have not yet caught the offenders, they have made it clear that these Uoflenderl are agents of the was superintendent of the mission. |G, P. Peter was a Greek Catholic, but his bride had turned Methodist. ‘We sailed on time, the bride occupy- ing the ship's wmnm shop as a bridal chamber, while the groom was relegated to the crew's quarters. Up in these Northern lands the accepted religion for the native is Greek Catho- lic, and they feel that a native is not mco rly Tlu—md unless by ldpflelh |L nsequently we arranged and held another wedding the following day. Many rs after this double wed- ding I returhed again to the Far North. We stopped at St. Paul's Island. While I was being rowed ashore I recognized a little native man smiling, at me as he pulled his oar in the oomiak. It was Peter Crow. He was still living with his wife and asked me to come and see his fine children. 8o this time the marriage was not a faflure. Weddings All in Day's Work. Weddings are all in the day’s work on ol. the Alaska A very erent type of job that came to me, while I was commander (Continued on Fourth Page.) The Story the Week Has Told invention of a “television eye,” expected to be of great immediate use by way of enabling an aviator to land securely in a fog. The fleld is exhibited on a television screen placed in front of him in the cockpit. Cornell is about to dedicate to the 264 Cornell men who lost their lives in the World War a beautiful war memorial group consisting of two towers 80 feet in height and 32 feet square, Joined by an exquisite cloister 116 feet. long, 12 feet wide and 14 feet high and flanked by dormitories, all in lish collegiate Gothic style, native stone be- ing used, with Indiana limestone for trimming. Ah! That incomparable site of Cornell! The five new Harvard House units made possible by Mr. Harkness’ mu- nificence will be ready for occupancy in September 1931. They will be given historic names: Eliot, Kirkland, Lev- erett, Winthrop and Adams. Dr. Roy Chapman .ndrews of the American Museum of Natural History started out the other day from Pelping on his fifth Mongolian expedition, Cen- tral Asiastic expedition. We wish him well. * ok ok BY SUBMARINE UNDER THE POLE—We hear that Lincoln Elis- worth is to collaborate with Sir George Hubert Wilkins in the latter’s attempt to reach the North Pole by submarine. It will be recalled how of old Mr. Ells- worth valiantly collaborated with the immortal Amundsen. The new venture is to be known "as the Wilkins-Ells- worth transpolar submarine expedition. It is e to leave New York for Spitzbergen in June, 1931, and, travel- ing thence under the ice, to pass be- neath the Pole and reach Alaska late in August. Mr. Ellsworth is now about to start on a canoe trip, with one com- anion, a Harvard undergraduate, to e unexplored headwaters of the Ham- ilton River, in Central Labrador. * ok ok X : is officially announced from Madrid that elections to a new Spanish Cortes will be held immediately after completion of an electoral census which should be effected by Novem- r 15, One June 15 there opened at Moscow a conference of representatives of the German and Russian governments aimed at re-establishment of cordial relations between the two countries. A int announcement prior to the open- ing ke of ‘“conciliation” and “the Rapolto spirit.” ‘The University of Chicago Hittite expedition has discovered traces of a Fora. - We are alvavs gl 5o got tredh e are always htmou that d!lllh&ll people, the g refused to the cabinet’s proposal to submit to the Egyptian Parliament a “L’Affaire Koutiepov” has stirred the French Jaubuc opinion to the pitch of indignation; a number of influential dailies, such as Le Matin and Le Temps, keep demanding from the government the severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviets. Indegd, at moments the animosity in Paris run so high that a break between the two countries has seemed imminent. What did the Soviet government answer to all these charges? When it came to accusations in propaganda, it answered that which for years it had answered in such cases. Its spokesmen declared approximately this: “Our gov- ernment never has indulged in any subversive propaganda in foreign coun- tries. The Third International does carry it on, but the Third International is just a private organization, an inter- national union of Communist parties of the world, which happens to have its headquarters in Moscow. We cannot check it and are not résponsible for its actions.” As for the alleged assassina- tions in Soviet embassies, the Soviet spokesmen and newspapers blankly— and angrily—denied them as merely “capitalistic lies and calumnies.” G.P. TU., they declare, exists only within the boundaries of the Soviet Union and its agents never are sent abroad. With still ter indignation they denied the greal participation of the Soviet government | do in the kidnaping of Koutiepov. Flees Own Embassy. ‘Yet the value of these denials is seri- ously undermined by evidence coming from an important and authoritative source. In October, 1929, a sensational diplo- matic scandal occurred in Paris. G. Bessyedovsky, the charge d'affaires of the Soviet government in Paris, had to flee for his life from his own embassy. On a rainy night a pale, excited gen- tleman, in a well tailored but torn suit, ran into a Paris police station and de- clared: “I am the Soviet charge d'affaires. Please send immediately a force to the embassy and liberate my wife and child. ‘They are arrested by the agents of the G. P. U. I myself hardly managed to escape.” After his wife and child were lib- erated he explained how it all had happened. He long since had begun to disagree with the present policy of Stalin. He had told only his best friends about it, yet the G. P. U. got wind of it and sent its inspector, Rolsenmann, to Paris. Appearing in the embassy, Roisenmann began to third-degree him, and when he, in & heated speech, dared to criticize Stalin, the inspector, indig- nant, shouted: “You are arrested! You immediately will start with me to Mos- cow to be tried there.” Paying no attention to Roisenmann's words, he rushed to the door to call a taxi and leave the embassy and the Soviet service | p] forever. But two obscure employes of the embassy pointed their revolvers at him: “On Comrade Roisenmann's order you are arrested!” Later Mr. Bessyedovsky wrote in Le Matin: “It was evident that I was trapped. . . . I understood that they were going to kill me and perhaps my family. I suddenly remembered that early that morning two enormous trunks for heavy luggage had been received at the em- bassy. ‘These trunks would .gasily accommodate three human corpses :{ucn would be shipped to Moscow as ‘diplomatic luggage.’ . . . “He feigned submission. But, as though going back to his room, he sneaked into ghe garden of the em- bassy, quickly Climbed a fence and ran to_the police station. . . . What was striking in Mr. Bessye- dovsky's story was that he spoke of the presence of secret G. P. U. agents in Soviet embassies, which was denied with such vehemence by the Soviet government as a matter of course. Still more striking was the fact that he, the acting Ambassador, death by their hand within the prem- ises of his own embassy. Why did try not to let him go? ‘were he told Mr. Bess; quite ly: “We can- not let you go; you know too much!” Writes His Experiences. Having recovered from the shock of his escape, Mr. Bessyedovsky wrote the “Memoirs of a Soviet Diplomat were published serially in le 5 ‘These ‘“Memoirs” contain interesting Roisenmann While th The-Toval prerogative. - The position of pre; ive. pos: of the cabinet the constitution lute. Of the new boats | study of revelations. Combining and juxtapos- ing them with some other testimony which I will mention further on, we can form an idea of secret Soviet work o sach Sovie embasey ta. em| representa- tives of “Fhird International was police commissioner of New |especiall feared | . Thus he rights The rwr-enuc tath un;n?h third 1 ive of e N~ temnuonnlm directs ;-hemwurk of tt: ‘Commun! party of e count which the " embasey i e accredif the | finances it, causes its leaders to organ- ize strikes or riots, etc. The agent of G. P. U, on active enemies of the Soviets m . machinery work? Up Wwhen the world—and ly Europe — still seethed with ron-wnr unrest, the Soviet leaders be- ;e:uble %n tl:e wug: revolution would of ng in coming. As Leon Trotsky admits in his memoirs, Moscow s Deither money nor energy to to Bulgaria, Germany and Poland. that time Soviet em were doing their subversive work without was effort on any great p Bessyed to the embassy in Warsaw, tells us how this embassy was literally transformed into a depot of dynamite, bombs and revolvers; how Yelensky, the G. P. U. agent, organized the famous explosion of the Warsaw Citadel in which hun- dreds of persons were kllled; how, at the same time, Dr. Goldenstein, the representative of the Third Interna- tional in_Vienna, was directing the abortive Bulgarian revolution, inciting Macedonia to riots, attempting to plunge the Balkans into chaos. Milder Tactics Decided On. But these heroic times have passed. The “rotten capitalistic regimes” proved to possess a far greater vitality than the Soviet government originally believed. To go on as recklessly as that was dan- gerous: One country after the other would break off diplomatic relations with Russia, as England did. And so it was S S el als worl e great R No dynamite is now kept in Soviet em« bassies; and the ts of the Third In- ternational and of G. P. U. are so cau- tious that they even avoid receiving their associates and subagents in the premises of the embassy, 1 to communicate with them ti h Betore, when Moscon prlis o st oo ore, ] w a , o= dering, for instance, a strike to be or- finmed in Berlin or Paris, these agents ow how to transmit the order to German or French Communists and help them in elrryi‘lzl it out. lgnu a similar’ Moscow organization exist in America? Mr. tells us that it does. Onlym course, does 3 not enjoy diplomatic immunity. In 1926 the Soviet 3 pointed Mr. Bess “Amtor to 1925 or 1926, fire At g Corporaf which functions in New York as s private company, but which, he says, is in reality an unofficial He never suc York. Bessyedovsky visited the for foreign affairs, the Third Interna- tional and G. P. U. and received confi- g'emkm information on affairs in New or] He was told, he writes, that Moscow paid to the American Communist m a regular yearly subsidy of $125,000. Moreover, there existed in the Unif States also a branch of G, P. U., on which Moscow spent $60,000 a year. Its ‘The Soviet press described Mr. Bess dovsky's revelations as “lies intended to gnluu the bourgeols.” But Mr. - these men are Bazhanov, Stalin's former secretary; Sisisiant peopIes comsmissar Jor foreig ass people’s or trade; A. Soboley, who held the of statemepts fully confirm thal Mr. Bessyedovsky says. Morsover, most of them live in constant fear for their lives; they are afraid of the vengeance of the G. P. U. They “know too much.” One of them, Mr. Sobolev, published & letter in Swedish newspapers in which he promised to make no revelations on the behind-the-stage activities of the Soviet government; but he concludes this letter by the words: “If, however, even in spite of this, I or my wife be killed, the public will not be mistaken as to whose we are.” It is these facts that throw light on the rumor of assassinations in Soviet embassies and on Koutiepov's Hdm ing. Did these murders actually Neither of the Soviet offi- cials now standing in the ranks of fugi- tives from the Soviets was attached to the embassies in Warsaw and in Ber- lin at the time when these assassina- tions are alleged to have taken place. They do not know for certain. But those of them who have spoken on this subject see nothing imj ble in it. As for Gen. Kout ' p= ing, neither Mr. Bazhanov, nor Mr. Bessyedovsky doubt that it was the sary, they may undertake daring And in Gen. Koutlepov's case they apparently believed that it was neces- sary. The fact is that the Soviet govern- ment still sees its greatest e Russian emigres 1i ly in Prance. by their influence, by of Soviet conditions and methods, seri ously harm the Soviet cause in France. Hence, the Soviet constan! against 3 Prince P. }nlusnul.l Russian th men, ts, started on foot from Al they peasan to Russia, but Do