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jkfl/^T t.u - Diary of 46 Years Ago Points Way for Present \ By BAUKHAGE I Nettm Analytt and Commentator. WVTT R#rri<>? Ifilft Fv* UrMt V W . fo*> n Phi. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. ? Mary Condit Smith, a young Washington society -;.t J;_ (Ul, VISilUlg uip loraatic friends in China, and a 'lev en-year-old boy in a little town on the Erie Canal both were keep ing diaries at the turn of the cen tury. Mary, alone in ] her room in the American lega tion in Peking on June 11, 1900, slipped on her pink silk dressing gown, sat down Baukhage ana wrote: "The telegraph was broken last night. We have no more communi cation with the outside world; our world is this dangerous Peking." That same day, though it was really the day before, according to the strange tricks Old Sol plays as he pushes the clock around while he marches westward and paradox ically reaches the Far East?that same day, Monday, June 11, a boy in the fifth grade of the High street school painfully inscribed this entry in his book: __ "It rained this A. M. Two more weeks and we'll be free from this School of Misery." (The next day it is of record that he broke the crank of his "wheel"?bicycle to you.) The boy's name appears at the head of this column and what he wrote isn't important, but just 4fi years later he was to read Mary's diary. She had gone to her reward long since but not until her diary became a book and she had become Mrs. Hooker, a colonel's lady. White Han't Prestige Slipped to Low At 1 read this fascinating story, told in simple, boarding-school Eng lish, those awful days when the for eign colony in Peking lived in the daily horror of massacre during the Boxer rebellion, became very real. Today the fires of civil war are spreading in China. Voices are be ing raised, demanding that our ma rines be withdrawn. American pres tige has fallen almost as low as it was when Mary Hooker in her diary told the dramatic story of the Boxer Rebellion?that moment in China's history when Americans, along with all foreigners reached their nadir. History repeats. The Empress Tzuhsi, a reaction ary, encouraged the activities of the Boxers and other groups whose chief purpose was to cleanse China of the "foreign devils." It is only fair to say that China had passed through a period during which the occidental powers had exploited her to the hilt. Attacks on foreigners, especially missionaries, began in 1899, but as Mary Hooker records, "the diplo mats and people in general put these things down to the usual spring riots which yearly seized Peking." By June and July of 1900, however, the foreigners found themselves be sieged in Peking. As late as June 7 Mary's diary reports: "Mr. Fethiek . . . forty years a resident of China and an in timate friend of half the polit ical leaders, knowing their weaknesses by heart, urges the minister to state to Washington the situation as it Is, bwt all to no avail." Three days later, as I mentioned, ' * ~ the foreign colony "had no commu nication with tha outside world.'* The next day's entry states: "8Mb Intense excitement! Ills afternoon the Japanese Chancellor at the Legattoo went down te the railway stattoa to the eBeial legattoo ear to see If there was say sifa aftrwfs. Be tarwtag hy the principal (ate, he was seised hy the Imperial (Chi nese) beeps, disemboweled and eat to pieces." Eagerly A waited Arrival et Troops From then on the entries become even more excitinf . . twenty of our marines have been sent by an officer to guard the big Methodist Mission . . . the Russian secretary . . . has figures at the ends of his fingers about the number of troops Russia can land in Tien-Tsin . .. are ? J "*6 w K' ?? ? sian coup d'etat? Each day the arrival of foreign troops was awaited. On June 17 the entry reads: "Jest one week ago today we got the telegram that the com bined forces of England, the United States, France, Japan, etc. . . . had left to go to the relief of the legations in Peking . . . when the time comes that the American and Russian lega tions can no longer hold ont, the British legation will be the stage for the terrible last act." The Roman Catholic church was only one of many burned, and the converts and their families in the vicinity slaughtered. "In some cases," says the di ary, "the Christians thought it better to be roasted in their houses than try to escape." (She herself had decided that she might as well be massacred in her pink silk dressing gown with a pink bow at her neck as in her golf clothes.) On the 19th of June, the Chinese government offered to give legation members their passports and escort them and their families to the port. 1 There was a division of opinion as to whether to trust the Chinese. In the evening the German minister started to confer a second time on the question when he was murdered in the streets. The situation grows worse. Dead Piled Around Rampart* A bullet knocks off the headpiece of a baby's crib. All the women are sewing sand bags. The Dutch and Austrian legations burn On July 1: "There are so many dead dogs, horses and Chinese bine in heaps ail around the defended lines, hot too far for us to bury or burn them." They used the dead horses closer by, however: "The . . . mess has an invariable menu. At breakfast, rice, tea and jam; at tiffin, rice and horse; at dinner, rice, horse and jam." With the privations and fear of the Boxers grew the suspicion and distrust of the members of the for eign missions of each other. Rus sians and English hated each other; Americans were the buffers. Racial ructions have no date lines. Mary Hooker notes: "The dislike of the Russians for the British is so cordial that is is only equaled by the feeling the British entertain toward them. Our compound joins the Russians, and they lore us and we lore them in as strong a fashion as they hate their Eng lish neighbors on their other aide." And so pretty Mary Hooker wrote history. . . . But it was more than history. It was drama. It was tragedy. Just look over her shoulder once again: "July ? ... day before yes terday, the Anstrian Charge d* Affaires was shot at the French legation. ... At flrst we kept a record aI the dead or badly wounded . . . bat now they come in so often we cease to note the exact number. . . . "July 1( . . . I was en route to the hospital carrying a pot ef coffee to the doctors and nurses when some soldiers passed me, carrying a rough lit ter, bearing Captain Strouts (the British commanding on cer) mortally wounded." Then July 16: "It is discussed quietly by men that they will certainly kill their wives wheal that time eomea (to make a Inal stand). God srant it never mnv! Aaro. pes i this, I have In 'my pock et a small pistol loaded with several cartridges, to ase 11 the worst happens. A Belgian sec retary state H tram the armoury far ma?'to case yea need It, 9 99 Then finally this note on August 13, when the Chinese were closing in on the improvised fortifica tions manned by lord and flunky, soldier and civilian making their last stand ... "a veritable ring at flame on all sides of the defenses." And then! ? "Through that racket that was around as all night, we eeuid faintly hear the aamlstakaMe sound at the for eign gaas at oar troops." That page of history, let us hope, will not be repeated. BARBS . . i _________________________ . by Baukhage "Joy-t>uiier*" which give you a shock handshake. the American Ma chinist says, produced a profit of $140,000 in ooe year. Better than a clammy paw. ? ? ? A new non-togging glass tor auto wtndahiehta has bean invented, ac k SSawirSsv^ There will be mare cranberries tor your Thanksgiving turkey this year, department of agriculture says. Now all are need is the turkey. ? ? ? The army and the navy at last have gotten together on the question of how long is a mile. The nauti cal mile was MX. feet longer than the infantry mile. But the sailors didn't cars. They didn't have to walk K. BREAKS AIR SPEED RECORD . .. Lt. Wm. J. Reillj, Sail Francisco, winner of feature race at the National air races held at Cleveland. Be piloted bis P-80 jet craft to an average speed of 578.36 miles an bour. Reilly is shown receiving the trophy from Albert J. Weather head Jr. Many other records fell daring the postwar air show and races. Cleveland plans to make this an annual event. Hundreds of thousands visited Cleveland to watch the big races. TWINS ELECT TWINS PREXIES . . . The nation's twins at their Grand Bapids, Mich., convention elected the Hick twins, Emory, left, and Ernest of Birmingham, Ala., co-presidents of the association. Receiving the gavel from Chicago's twin policemen, Warren and Chester Doonan, right, who held the gavel as co-presidents of the International Twins association for the past five years, the Birming ham twins dedicated their efforts toward more and better twins in 1947. ADVENTUROUS? GO CLIMB AN ALT! . . . Bnt you won't have to go to SwttacrUnd to do ? spot of Alplneering. Mountaineer* from all parts of the United States and Canada do K in the Canadian Rockies, and they say the thrills are worth all the eAorts. The Bugaboo glacier in the PnreeU range of British Colombia is toucher than many Swiss Alps and unmatched la grandeur. Here is Maj. Rea Gibson, one of Canada's aeo Alpinists, chopping footholds. ?AVIS AND RLANCHAKD AGAIN . . . The Amr*l IwiM?wi twin. GUa Darit. left, aod "Dae" Blaarhard. dcmoaatnte bow they ?Ua | nawto* SrtaT'yraJttee at the^Netl Slat? wtart DIRECT ACTION . . . William G. Williams, II, Washington, D. C., the consulting engineer who as a "plain citizen," protested plan to ship material to Yugo slavia and found his action start ed movement for new organi sation, "Direct Action." MODEL WINNER . . . Milton L. Gugnelet, Chicago, who won the grand champion trophy at the na tional model airplane meet held at Wichita, Kans. STOP BELIEF! . . . World War I food czar, ex-President Herbert Hoover, as he called for an im mediate stoppage of relief sup plies to Yugoslavia. He termed that nation's shooting down of American planes, "a poor token of gratitude." BELL TO HONOK HERO ... A pig-tailed little gtrl is reading the Inscription en the bell whose toll ing will be a rinsing memorial to the late Gen. George S. Patton, former commander of the D. S. 3rd army. It was presented to St. John's Episcopal eboreh, Beverly Farms, Mass. TUTOR JAP PRINCE . . . Mrs. Elisabeth Gray Vininf, Philadel phia teacher and asthor, whs was ?elected as a tater far Crewa TITO DEAL EXPOSED WASHINGTON. ? When the full details of the Teheran conference are told, they will show that after Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill finished dividing up the Balkans? ! one of the worst things FDR let ; them do?Stalin then sold Churchill on the trigger-happy little dictator who recently caused such a crisis between the United States and | Yugoslavia. Marshal Stalin, at that stage of the Teheran conference, was in '? expansive mood. He had beaten down Churchill's insistence that the I second front against Hitler be staged through the Balkans and had put across an agreement instead that Russia take over Romania and Bulgaria, with Britain getting Greece and Yugoslavia. So at this point, Stalin gave his friend Churchill some ad vice. The Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia and the areas in which Britain is especially in terested, he said, are Croatian, not Serb. Therefore General Mihailovitch, a Serb, was the wrong man to run Yugoslavia. Instead, Stalin offered Church in his man Tito, a Croat. Those are the inside facts on how Churchill happened to take on Tito, and how the United States immedi j ately switched tons of valuable ! lend-lease equipment to Stalin's pup pet-in-disguise. The finishing touches to this tragic error were applied when Churchill sent his bungling son, Randolph, together with equally bungling Brig. Fitzroy McLean, to serve as liaison officers to Tito. They, in turn, plpyed right into the hands of Stalin's shrewd plan to steal Yugoslavia right out from under the British. ? ? ? TITO SHOWS HIS TEETH When Dictator Tito fired on U. S. airplanes recently it was not the first time he had shown his teeth. His first snarling display of force came toward the end of the war as relations between himself and the British began to cool. One night Tito's headquarters were raided by a Nazi airborne j division and he barely escaped. It so happened that on this particular night, Randolph Churchill and all other Britishers left Tito's head quarters for the first time in two months. Tito was beside himself with rage and suspicion, figured the British were out to doublecross him, and shortly thereafter flew to Bari, Italy, then headquarters for refugee Yugoslavs. As Tito's plane landed, several hundred Yugoslavs armed with tom my guns surrounded it. No British official was allowed anywhere near their chief. Later Tito was invited to dine with Gen. Sir Henry Mait land Wilson, British commander in the Mediterranean, and arrived at the dinner with two dozen husky Yugoslav guards, who lined up with tommy guns on both sides of the dining room. "1 say, marshal," remarked General Wilson, "isn't this a most unusual procedure?" "This, general," replied Tito, "is a most unusual war." Neat day he flew to Bucharest, conferred with Russian officials, then returned to Yugoslavia. His co | operation with the British was ab solutely dead. He was now openly working for Russia. Meanwhile .the United States had poured millions in lend-lease material into Tito's hands. Shortly after that, when British commandos landed at Split on the Yugoslav coast to try to head off the German army, Tito's men disarmed the British and sent them back to Italy. ? ? ? BALKANS BREED CUTTHROATS Today in Yugoslavia, Tito is any thing but popular and, if it wasn't for the support of Russia, he would be out on his ear. The Serbs, who formerly ran the country, don't like him, because he is a Croat and they have been put on the sidelines. The Croat people don't particularly like him because they are strong Roman Catholics and he is a Communist. Only people who really like Tito are the Montenegrins, and their lead era adore him?for a very special reason. The Montenegrins are the born fighters of Yugoslavia. Living in one of the rockiest countries in the world, they have nothing to do but fight?or migrate to America, which they did in large numbers before the war. Almost every third Mon tenegrin you met in the old days spoke a little broken English and had worked for a time in the steel mills of Pittsburgh or Youngstown. ? ? ? 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