Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-28
A GENERAL entente
Between Great Britain and
'Austria-Hungary
FROM EXCHANGE OF VIEWS
Regarding the Moroccan Question and
Its Solution.
GREAT DIsQUIETUDE IN BERLIN
Kaiser's Scheme of Pan-German
Federation Has Received
Severe Check
GREAT DIsoUIETUDE IN BERLIN


Within the past week important negotia-
tons growing out of an exchange of views
regarding Morocco have been taking place
| between Great Britain and Austria Hun
gary, and are eliminating in a general en-
tente. which is now practically assured.
This development is causing great disqui-
etude in Berlin. Leaders of opinion in Ger
| many have exhorted and exhorting
| their countryTnen to strive with might and
main to win the foremost position in the
world. For this reason the Germans believe
that to gain this end the power of Great
| Britain must be broken, and they do not
believe this would be so difficult a task as
1t appears to the average Englishman They
| well know that the British and their infu-
| ence stands in the way of German world
power. The tie between Great Britain and
Austria comes therefore as a shock to
Germans. who believed that the subjects as
| well as the ruler of the dual monarchy were
| their supporters, if not friends
| The Pan-German Scheme.
| THAT is the outcome of the Pan-German
| synthetic annexation scheme" said a prom
| inent diplomat. 1T has been so defined by
!
movement which aims at the assimilation
of the Teutonic cantons of Switzerland in
| cludes In its political orbit Bohemia with
us dependent Czech, Slovak Savonic and
Latin elements of Carniola and Istria The
bringing together OF ali these people would
mean the assimilation of about 100000 or
inhabitants, of which Ga, 600 coo are. of Ger
man race, and the rest subdivided in the
four dependent nationaities. While ethno-
logicaiiy II Is complex problem, by force
or its geographical and commercial cond-
ions 1t is to the vast majority of practical
Pan-Germanfsts the unavoidable result of
time, and all the drawbacks of such a
scheme are lost sight of in the splendid
opportunity offered by the geographical ac
QUESTIONS in the Mediterranean basin
Inc German government would benefit
srateslcally, Also because the ports of
the German ocean and the Baltic obtain
dlfect railway connection with those of the
Adriatic and by means of the Danube. and
the proposed system of canals uniting that
river with the Rhine and other German
waterways, thus giving access to the Black
sea and the 'Hnterland' of Asia Minor
The politics Of such a move have been jul
diciously discussed in previous articles in
The Star, so there is no need of taking
them up again.
President Roosevelt, in his first mes
sage to Congress, stated that whether
America desires it or not, she must hence
forth recognize that she has international
duties no less than international rights.
Therefore, the United States would be
menaced by a dangerous industrial Compel
itor should this greater Germany become
a reality The attitude of America, then,
toward militant pan-Germanfsm together
with it's schemes for the disruption of the
Austrian empire, cannot be one OF lndlf-
ference.
England Thwarted It.
Then this pooling of German and Aus
trian interests. which at one time was con-
sidered certainty attracted the attention
of England and the latter Influenced by
the Presidents attitude. did everything pos
sible to thwart 1t.
I'm one form or another, and through
dozen crises OF German history, the pam
Germanic principle has made itself felt IN
central Europe for centuries Previous to
the congress of Vienna the rulers or Aus
tria had maintained crushing supremacy
in the hierarchy of German princes. After
t 1915. however Metternich, and his success
sors in office, had reason to view with IN
creasfny apprehension the then unobtruslve
growth of the prestige of the house OF
Hohenzollern and the gradual oDfuscat!oi
of the star of the Hapsburgs as snihihs
light in the gloom of European polltlc ponies,
The cleverly dssimuated poncy py means
of which bismarck led Austria to assocla-
tion in the outrage perpetrated In the duch.
les of Schleswig Hoistein suddehIy anu
rudely opened the eyes OF EuIopea an,l and
macy to the magnitude of the peru. anu
90 tbe realization that the rivalry between
rho ruIing houses had entered upon a phase
which must eventually cullnllla'e III '1''
su tirT en- eonndafion of the German empire
was presaged by some statesmen saiu ~
dinomat las the beginning anu no. l
end of national development, ana my
Iani,od IN pan-Cerman ism for the fulflllineht
of their ambition Bismarck dlsclllnleu dily
ambition for the possession OF 'ct 81 -,
whose heterogeneous conposltioA ~ ~ t{a,
ations would prove more detrimental thdii
Eeref.iaI The SlaVonic and Latln elements
in Carniola and 1stria VIII De coulleu pus
infnitesimal distractions IN the Wiue ioau
to be cut for Teuton feet 70 tIeau - oiii az
shores of the Baltic and the herman ocean
to the headwaters of the Adrlauc
T+alv's Commercial Decadence
..os toto rta,y's commercial decadence in
the Aarfatic has been very apparent. Nor
ts +ha exodus of shipping and industry
from, its waters confined to Italian interests
Lowe because British shipping has done
! itlrauyise At the same time Austria has
| made the best of this decadence ana de-
| rived profitable emoluments from her VEN
| lures. 49, A., -
| ,ntion of the great political problem, Pan
| Slay-C.ermanism. cannot long be deferred
| The Slav population may nave FAX hot s
! of subordination. and may pc disposed 10
| hrine about greater disaffection of the
subjects of Francis Joseph. put at the same
| time II would not in itself necessarily mean
| the disruption of that heterogeneous empire
A. most they only wish to control him. not
! 10 mart from him Nor are the Czechs anti
| dynastic or disposed to make Czech en-
| nire of Austria The Polish elements in Ga
| iiicia. constituting nearly one-half of the
/ population of that province, sympathize
| more closely with their Austrian masters
| than with either their German or Russian
| neighbors With them Pan-Germanism has
| no sentimental Significance, but an economic
/ federation Of central Europe might mean
| much to them.
| austria however, has discontinued being
| tied in German leading strings. A strong,
| latent-antipathy still exists between south
and north Germany. and this antipatby was
| the nucleus whereby Austria claimed her In
/ dependence 1t was out of the question that