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Correspondence
Irish Fragment
To

THE EDITOR THE PJATION:

SIR:About12thinst.
I promisedtosendyou
a n impression
of thecontemporarysceneinDublin-justtheplaincitizens
account of what it feels like to be living there under present
conditions.UntilSunday,when
I hadaboutcompleted
it, 1
thoughtitwas
a trueimpressionism.
. . . Anywayitisnot
t r u e now.Thereis
so little truth in it t h a t I have put it in
t h e fire-all
except the first page,which I am sending YOU SO
t h a t youmaybeabletorealizehowcompletelythesituation
haschanged(inDublin)since
a weekago(Nov.
16). What
has happened is simply this: the conditions of guerrilla warfare
whichappliedto
our opencountrysidesnowapplyequallyto
our capitalcity.Maybeyoucanguesswhat
that means. In
a week o r so I will be sending you another article, but, if it is
tobearanyrelationtothetruth
of things, it mustbevery
different to the pale, pleasant piece
I havedestroyed.
Ireland,
November
23
JAMES
CARTY

DUBLIN:NIGHTANDDAYIMPRESSIONS
BY JAMES
CARTY
November 21
Life in Dublin has not yet
become the perilous and unstable
thing that it is in many counties
of the west and south. The
constantfear of an untimelydeathdoesnotpreyuponthe
mind of the average citizen, nor has he to reckon with the everpossiblecontingency of having to fly fromhishome
at night,
withhisfamilyifhehasone,forthe
cold butfriendlyhills.
Thelaborer,journeyingdowntown
t.o hismorningswork,is
not so far disturbed by the thought that his employers premises
and his employmentmayhavegoneupinflamesthenight
before.Parades
of frightfulnessareoftenfeatured,butthey
are usuallyadmonitoryonly,notpunitive
as elsewhere. Combats have taken place in the streets, but the prevailing condition,
which probably both sides wish to maintain,is one of continuous,
unqualified, but passive hostility between the population and the
occupying forces of Britain.
The scene is indeed so quiet and passive that a s t r a n g e r on a
brief visit might
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The Fastov Pogrom

TO

EDITOR THE NATION:

Having read The Fastov Pogrom, printed by you in the
InternationalRelationsSection
of yourissue of December 8,
itoccurstome
as pertinent to ask thefollowingquestion:
If
the document constitutes an indictment-and to my mind it is
the most terrible indictment ever made-against what or whom
is it an indictment?
The docummt recites the terrible crimes
of certain bands of
Christiansinthetown
of Fastov. A youngwoman,
f o r instance, was rapcd by
a Cossackinthesameroomwhereher
murderedhusbandandherfatherwerelyingandwhileher
littlebabywascryinginitscrib.OtherChristiansinvade
a
synagogue on the day of Pom Kippur and amidst cries of terror
seizeseveralyoungwomenandrapethem.ThoseChristians
murdered Jews by the thousands in the town
of Fastov alone.
But the deeds committed in Fastov were repeated in some
250
townsandparticipatedinbytens
of thousands of Christians.
Even superficial statistics give 100,000 Jews as murdered, 50,000
additional as dying of wounds,andsome
200,000 asmerely
wounded,more o r lessseriously.
Also, 800,000 Jewishwomen
of all ages were raped.
As these crimes have been perpetrated by tens
of thousands
of Christians during many months, and in the broad daylight
of Christianityandcivilization,
who, then,isto
be indicted?
THE
SIR:

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Poland is a Catholic country and

few words from the Pope
could a t any time put an end to such terrible outrages. Even
intheUkrainethereareenoughhighlyplacedecclesiastics
on behalf of
who had the power but not the will to intervene
innocence.Andwhataboutthecriminalsthemselveswhoare
pious Christians?
Andhowaboutcivilization,so-called?
Inanotherdocument
whichyouprintunderthecaption
of ThePresentState
of
thePolishJews,whichis
an official interpolationbyJewish
deputies in the Polish parliament-is not there plenty of m a t t e r
adduced t o prove a t leastcriminalconnivanceonthepart
of
thePolishGovernment?Thequestionalsoarises:Whatdid
England do, andwhatdidFrancedo,tostopsuchcarnivals
ofblood and crime-those
two great props of civilization and,
incidentally, of Poland, the scene of the crimes? It is not to be
forgottenthat all the leaders of thosehorrorsaremenwho
havebeenknownto
supported officially bythosetwogovernments.
To myhumbleunderstandingeverygovernment
of Europe
as well a s its people that professes Christianity and civilization
isindutyboundtohelpput
a stop t o suchcrimes, our own
country, which boasts so much of its humanity, Christianity, and
civilization,notexcluded.And
T h e Nation, if itissincerein
its profession of liberality, should, if the Irish question deserves
a Committee of One Hundred, have a Committee of One ThousandontheJewishquestion.OrelseChristianityis
a dead
profession; civilization, a hollow word; and radical and liberal
thought a humbug along with all the many humbugs, to beguile
and mislead the masses.
N e w York, December 9
MAX

Rumanias Attitude Toward Hungary

To THE EDITORO F THE NATION:
SIR: I n one of thedocumentsprintedintheInternational
RelationsSection of November 17 Colonel Reich,latechief
of
the press division of the Hungarian legation in Vienna, in discussingtheplan
of a Hungarian-Rumanianalliance,makes
fewassertionsthatcallforinstantandvigorouscorrection.
Thushisinsinuationthattheideawas
conceived duringthe
Rumanian queens sojourn a t Paris has absolutely no foundation
infact.NopoliticshavebeendiscussedduringherMajestys
visit in the French capital.
ColonelReichs statement that the
plan of thealliancewasreceivedwithgreatenthusiasmby
King Ferdinand is as blatantly untrue. No such plan has ever
beensubmittedtotheking
of Rumania. No Rumanian statesm a n would dare to propose an alliance with Horthys Hungary
whose government is conniving a t the continuous massacre and
torture of hundreds of innocent persons and maintains the worst
system of terrorandoppressioninhiscountryandthemost
condemnable spying system abroad. We ought especially to
emphasize that the king of Rumania is the constitutional head
of
a constitutionalstate,andhispolicyisthatwhichisbeing
decided upon by his nations will as expressed in its parliament
andconstitutionalgovernment.
I need not point out
that Colonel Reichs statements on this
prtrticularpoint, as on theothers are notrepresentations of
facts, but merely expressions of hope and desire. The Magyar
official merely substitutes the indicative mood for the optative.
RumaniasrealattitudetowardtheHungary
of Horthy is
shown by her adherence to the Little Entente whose chief purpose is the maintenance of peace in Central Europe and the enforcement of theTreaty
of Trianon. Of course,
Rumania
wishestoliveinpeaceandfriendshipwithHungary
as w i t h
the rest of her neighbors; but the Rumanian statesmen realize
thatpeacefulandfriendlycooperationispossibleonlywith
a
regenerate democratic Magyar state, and not with
a regime of
militaristrevenge-seekers.
Yorlc, N o v e m b e r 19
BASIL STOICA,
Commissioner of the Rumanian Government.