Roma n ia n Legation
Invasion Example of
Power of Little Men
By CHARLES M. MC CANN
" United Press Correspondent
The invasion of the Romanian
legation in Bern, Switzerland,
by anti - Communist Romanians
is a reminder
of the trouble
little men can
cause in the re
1 a t i o n s be
tween nations.
It was a
group of little
men, like
those con
cerned in the
Bern incident,
who caused
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when they assassinated Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand of Aus-tro-Hungary.
It is a reminder also of the
system under which a country
is conceded sovereignty over the
premises its embassies and lega
tions occupy in foreign capitals.
The Bern police, for instance,
had to get the permission of the
Romanian charge d'affaires to
enter the grounds of the legation
from which he and his staff had
fled.
Archduke Slain'
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
was slain at Sarajevo on, Aus
trian soil by little men who were
Austrian subjects.: But the as
sassins were Bosnian Serbs, who
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opposed Austrian rule. Austria
blamed Serbia, holding that a
Serbian terrorist organization
fomented the assassination and
provided the weapons for it. The
resultant crisis caused the first
world war. ;- ; -
Between the two world wars,
there was an international crisis
involving France, Yugoslavia
and Italy when little men be
longing to a Croatian terrorist
organization assassinated King
Alexander of Yugoslavia and
French Foreign Minister Louis
Barthou at Marseilles, France,
on Oct. 9, 1934.
It developed that the terrorist
organization had its headquar
ters in what was then Fascist
Italy, and was encouraged by
Mussolini. Italy refused to sur
render the men behind the assas
sination plot.
Little Man, Again
It was a comparatively little
man, Boris Savinkov, who tried
to get Bolshevik Russia and Ger
many at war again in 1918 by
organizing the assassination of
the German ambassador to
Russia.
The Bolsheviks and Germany
had signed a peace treaty, while
the war continued ; in Western
Europe. Savinkov, a veteran
social revolutionary terrorist of
Czarist days, had turned against
the Boiseviks. He organized the.
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WEEPING after arraignment
on charges she slew Mrs. Katie
Hayden, her wealthy mistress,
Peggy King, 25, is comforted by
sobbing common-law mate, Roy,
following Los Angeles superior
court hearing. (International)
assassination, on July 6, 1918, of
Count Wilhelm Harff-Mirbach,
the German ambassador. Savin
kov hoped Germany would de
clare war against the Bolsheviks
but at that time, the Ger
mans were too busy fighting on
the Western Front to bother
much about Mirbach.
Incidentally, it was Savinkov
who organized the plot to as
sassinate Nikolai Lenin on Aug.
30, 1918, by a girl named Kap
lan. Had Lenin been killed, in
stead of being merely wounded,
the course of, world history cer
tainly would have been changed.
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In Tfie Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Today's biggest news:
No shooting yet.
No atom bombs dropped.
IT seems to me that in the world
of today, which is torn by a
fundamental conflict between
the free way of life and the slave
way of life, our country should
keep in mind two supremely im
portant courses of action. One is
a must. The other is a must not.
Let's deal first with the must:
We MUST find a way to live
with Communism until the in
evitable time comes when it will
fall of the weight of its own foul
ness. We MUST NOT permit our
selves to fall into (or be led into)
the delusion that we must DES
TROY Communism by preven
tive war, if necessary.
H
EADLINE stuff:
In the nation's capital, Ore
gon's junior senator Richard
Neuberger (Senator Morse is no
longer Junior; he's now SEN
IOR) proposes that everybody
get together on how to abbre
viate Oregon. He suggests that
news outlets and others join fed
eral agencies in using Oreg. as
the abbreviation for our state,
rather than Ore., which is more
common..
He points out that Oreg. is
the form used by the government
printing office and other federal
outfits.
1HAVE no objection to his idea,
and I think that as a freshman
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senator he . is wise in tackling
the little things first.
But
I can't heln thinking that Ore
gon faces weightier problems
than changing the abbreviation
of its name from Ore. to Oreg.
TN Salem, the highway commit-
tee of the house of representa
tives has postponed action on a
bill to provide for COMPUL
SORY motor vehicle inspections.
State police superintendent H.
G. Maison and representatives of
the AFL machinists union testi
fy against the proposal at a com
mittee hearing, contending that
it would require too many po
licemen to enforce the law and
would cost too much money.
I think that's true. .
Besides, let's leave SOME
THING to individual responsi
bility.
T SUPPOSE, of course, that if
everybody HAD to have his
car inspected from stem to stern
every so often or go to jail there
might be fewer accidents due to
faulty brakes and such.
It's doubtless true that if we
had a traffic policeman for every
mile of our highways there
would be less reckless driving.
But also there would be a lot
more taxes to pay.
I can't escape the feeling that
education of the public is the
best approach to the problem of
reckless driving, and I think the
same is true in the case of fre-
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Army; Lands in Brig
Norfolk, Va. (U.R) Edward
C. Huff of Louisville, Ky., came
to Norfolk on his first week end
pass after joing the Coast Guard
and joined the Army.
Huff landed in the Army
stockade. He protested the Army
could r not rightfully hold him
because was a Coast Guardsman.
Military authorities straight
ened it out Huff was trans
ferred to the Coast Guard brig.
quent inspection of cars for me
chanical defects.
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Development of MAN-MADE
DIAMONDS is announced by re
search scientists of the General
Electric Company. - These dia
monds are said to be indistin
guishable from the genuine arti
cle. TF you have a diamond (or a
V slug of them) don't get pan
icked yet by the thought that
f actory-made diamonds may des
troy the cash value of your pos
sessions. The man-made ones will cost
about twice as much as the nat
ural kind.
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; Miami (U.R) Mrs. Dorothy
Firestone, widow of rubber
company - heir Russell A. Fire
stone, and John W. Galbreath
of Columbus, O., president of
the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball
Club, were to be married here
today.
The. couple said the wedding
would be "just a family affair"
and they would not reveal where
the ceremonies would take
place.
Mrs. Firestone's late husband
was the son of Harvey Fire
stone, of the Firestone Tire and
Rubber Co.
Galbreath, a Columbus real
estate executive, is the father
of Mrs. James Phillips and David
Galbreath of Columbus. His wife
was Helen Mauck.
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phone system announced today
it will install an automatic "dial
M for menu" service to aid
housewives. The Hull City Coun
cil's telephone committee said a
three-minute menu talk will be
available every morning. It was
a bachelor's idea.
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.and protege of comedian George
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overdose of sleeDing Dills, the
coroner's office said today.
A preliminary, autopsy failed
to determine the. exact cause of
death after Miss - Adam's, was
found dead in her apartment last
Sunday, and further tests were
ordered.
The body of the actress was
flown back to her Charlotte,
N. C, home for funeral services
scheduled Friday.
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