James P. Smythe

Name: Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword
Author: James P. Smythe

Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

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“Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword”, published in 1920, is a work by James P. Smythe. It explores elements such as Rescuing the Czar, democracy and hostility.

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ Nothing is more potent to dissolve a race and scatter its suspected members from the altar of their fathers than the fable of their unrepentant hostility to the cry of Mercy from the sacrificial Ikon. Nothing so quickly exposes their abandoned fields to the tramp of hostile feet and the subjugation of their soil. Ambitious rivalry has no better ally than unexplained suspicion.
If "Rescuing the Czar" does no more than set at rest the fable of the "Romanoff Execution," it will have done its work by characterizing the source and methods and objects of its inspiration. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ If their democracy shall survive their own self-amputation, the lightness of their governmental burdens will stimulate the flow of mercy through their social institutions and direct their thoughts toward pity for the useless sacrifice.
In simple justice, therefore, "Rescuing the Czar" is offered in extenuation of this doubtful charge against the entire Russian race. For nothing is better calculated to sanctify a martyrdom and make a race abhorred than a belief in its injustice. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ To those schooled in the methods and objects of international propaganda during the Great War it is evident that, in a period of revolution, when thrones and dynasties become unpopular within the area of hostility and discontent, the adherents of Royalty may not be unwilling to appease the demand for vengeance by some theatrical display of meeting it with a pretense or an artifice until the passions of the populace have subsided and sober toleration resumes its sway over the sated revolutionary mind. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ In like manner, when the revolutionary passions of Russia have subsided, there may be men and women of the humblest estate who will wonder how it happened that their Emperor, whose darkest sin, apparently, was loyalty to Russia, could have been murdered by their countrymen in cold blood. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ In reflecting on the experiments of their Revolution, finding much to be admired and more to be condemned, they will not accept without resentment an accusation from posterity that they lacked both gratitude and pity when the test of national manhood came. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ If it performs no other service than to place upon the pale face of tragic possibility the red-pink blush of romantic probabilities, it will have justified its presence in the society of the learned by the sincerity of its purpose and the candor of its appeal to the conscience of the world. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ In the abysmal void between the disappearing star and the aspiring glowworm men tramp upon, there seems to be sufficient latitude for the play of gratitude or grief. A Napoleon exiled by the French or a Ney shot down by Frenchmen is unthinkable today. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ If it raises the presumption of generosity in quarters generally subject to suspicion, it will be equally praiseworthy for expelling the darkness that has always hovered around Imperial thrones. If it does nothing but portray the dignified composure of Russian womanhood in the presence of unspeakable affronts, it will have justified its publication by adding to the diadem of virtue a few more jewels to glorify the crest of motherhood. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ This eagerness to convince the world by substituting a mere disappearance, or the lack of evidence, for positive proof of the Royal assassination raises very naturally the presumption that certain circles are more interested in misleading than in satisfying the public mind. ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ They will merely fortify the accepted impression among students of events that when Time binds up the wounds of Revolutionary Russia the world will discover an Agrarian Democracy, instead of a Soviet Communism or Romanoff Empire, emerging from the cosmos of organized disorder in that land. This seems to be the trend of thought behind "Rescuing the Czar." ”

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James P. Smythe, Rescuing the Czar, Part One — Foreword (1920)

“ It forms the inheritance of distributive power in nations ascending from monarchial institutions to theoretical republics or pseudo-democracies, and it imparts a touch of pathos to the lingering hope of Royalty that humanity may some day welcome its return to reverence and power. ”

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