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Show HUSSSA HI TO REENTERJURKEY Stranded Women Happy Over Restoration of Worship Wor-ship in Hoy City. Question of Mandatory for Constantinople Raised by Commission. BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. '.Copyright, 1919. by the New York Her-;iid Her-;iid Company All R!y Reserved.) JEIU,SALKM. Jury. 8. After having been closed by th Turta during the war, the Russian church in Jerusalem opened yesterday lor service. A priect arrived the night before, and a throng of blarck-shawled, blarck-shawled, enthusiastic Russian women, pilRrlms, stranded here for five years, ran after his carriage In an ovation as fuil of meaning- a9 of heartiness. I attended at-tended service n the church, and a happier, hap-pier, more devoted congregation never laced priest or preacher. They were nearly all womn, of course, of the peasant peas-ant type, with sweet and spiritual facea, radiant with joy over the restoration or religious worship. Th..- occasion was emblematic and prophetic. pro-phetic. It seemed an earnest of the day when all Russia will come back to the church, and the church will come back to Kusa a. It started thoughts of that tomorrow, surely not more than a eon-t eon-t ration distant, when Russia will have found herself, and become again a great nation, greater than ever she was under tht- autocracy. Commissioner Attends Church. At the moment, the American section of the peace conference commission to In vest, gate the question of mandatories lor Turkey is in Jerusalem. Charles K. Cra nee. a momber. whose unshakable friendship for Russia is famous, gave up a v.s t to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Sep-ulchre in order to attend the Kuss.an service. The presence of the commission, and of this locally historic event in Rus-etr.n Rus-etr.n af fairs, ra.bea the question of how far Russia la to be taken into consideration considera-tion in providing for the future of the territory that once was Turkey. It Is the business of the peace conference to take long views. Kveryoody knows that a free access to the world through the Black sea, the Uosphorus and the Dardanelles Is vital to Kusfi.a s commercial and political development. devel-opment. The allies had agreed that Rus-eia Rus-eia should have Constantinople aj her bhare of the spoils of war. Her unique cln :ms were rcugnized by everybody. Obviously. Russ.a is not now, nor will she soon be, ready to occupy Constantinople. Constanti-nople. Btsid is. America's entrance into the v.nr presumably caused the abandonment abandon-ment rf the old idea of booty. No nation na-tion nowadays in conceded a conqueror's ripht to any bit of territory. Constantinople Constanti-nople and the straits will never become an exclusive Russian preserve. Right Must Be Safeguarded. Xc; should they be the peculiar possession posses-sion of any nation. This ts a point that need? safeguarding. Constantinople should be kept in the custody cf a power w.thout imperial ambitions and one that !s not Involved in dangerous international interna-tional rival ri is. Furthermore, whoever " ho ids Constantinople and the straits as trustee of the League of T.ations should have ever hi mind the proa-ct of Russia revived and of her proper claims to consideration. con-sideration. The mandatory should be one that will neither thwart nor exploit her. There is no European nation that has not In thi iian regarded Russia as a rival and a po5s.b!e foe. Developments in 1'uris h.-ve revealed that even yet America Amer-ica is the only power which looks upon liussra from the standpoint of the welfare wel-fare of the people of that unhappy land. America refuses to recognize either the Bolshev.ki or the react ioii.. k-s ; she insists in-sists upon all possible guars r. tees that th people themselves shall nive every opportunity :o exercise their own free choice of democratic government. And America at Constantinople would be a trustee of the rights of Russia as well as of Turkey and Greece and Britain and France and Italy, and every other people. When con si Coring the future of this persisting center of influence, where aat the ancient rulers of the church and of the world, the situation as it will be twenty-five vears hence should be borne in mind. To let any imperlallstically minded power prevail there would be recreancy to the world of tomorrow, which -e all seek to make sale and happy. |