The Washington herald., 1915-12-19

mimic Europe. II Is swelling with
the same imperial ambitions. Each of
pire. in which the sister States are
overthrown and all are brought under
/ one COnquering sword.
II is said that in the first war Fer
4 dinand. Gar of the Bulgars. had his .
! robes made and packed for tri-
umphal entry int" Constantinople and
! grand coronation in st. Sofia. OF
| the other hand. the Danish parents
/ of King Constantine OF Greece chris
! tened him after the first and last ruler
of the old eastern empire. and thus
! that line of emperors. The Serbs are
! not less Erandiose--or farcial-ir
! their aspirations. which comprehend
! an empire stretching from top to bot
/ tom of the Adriatic and possibly on
! to the Bosporus.
If there is to be a funeral for the
! Sick Man OF the East, each of the
States is an applicant for the post of
undertaken.
The Balkan Deadlock.
, Hence the breakdown of diplomacy
! in its anxious efforts to unite the
! Balkans and fashion their combined
! bayonets into catspavs for the great
powers. The Austro-Gernan empires
I have contrived to make deal with
| Bulgaria. because In alliance with
! them she will only be aiding them Is
! annihilate her Serbian rival and to
I postpone the main question of who
shall rule Constantinople.
! Tho entente, on the other hand, Is
not only hound to restore and enlarge
Serbia and to satisfy Italy's demands
! in the .Ndriatic, but above all to over
throw the Turk and to appease Rus7-
uclles. This was quite enough to re-
| pei Bulgaria and to cause Greece and
nn, mt 10 e ,bn or aa1s ,Gf sn
large their dominions in the neighoor-
! ing seas and both Greece and Rou.
mania would rather have sick man
, awhile than TO SOC Il pass into the
permanent possession OF any new and
vigorous owner, is2st Of all the Rus
sian giant.
PENDING some means os Gi<pelIfnR
those doubts. 0cGrla3;a neutrality
stands as Il barrie: to ;hc armed hosts
the Balkan -hea;er OF the war. and
Greece's benevolent neutrality" offers
the English sad French only slip
perry foothoid oh her Macedonian
Greece has -, them N. but will she
let them out: Those great nations lit
ers. They asked the Crock governs
ment. just as Germany asked Belgiuml
for a permit TO pass. The Greeks only
liceman. and said nothing.
Naturally. England aud France wish-
ed n more explicit welcome and q
guarantee sS that the gate would not be
tine. the Kaiser's brother-in-law.
Merely as an evidence Of their carn>
estness. they surrounded his throne
with their naval guns. For Greece to-
deny the mistress OF the cncompassin9
seas. would be to invite the fate OF
Belgium.
AS for Roupania. her neutrality may.
yet test the lorbearance OF Russia. ms
one way. II Is more hnrfruul than her
enmity would be. Should she e" over
to the Teutons. she would only open
the sluice gate for food % RussfanSs
now held back on every front.
Laboratory of War.
We have seen that the war is turns 1
donia its real starting point, and the
starting point of al, warfare for world
empire?
When Paul came 20 tho very port
where the Anglo French expedition
landed-the ThessalonIca OF the Scrip
tures-he wa. driven away because his :
message WINS that God had made Of one
blood all nations OF men ami had de-
ternined the bounds of their habfta.
tions. Macedonia had been delicat<d
for FIVE and twenty centuries 1t has
been the experiment station of tho
sword. a laboratory OF war.
There the method OF determining the
boundaries OF nations by force, of
solving human problems by force and
advancing the race by force has been
tested longest. And force has utterly
failed to settle anything. Yet once
more We are seeing II put to the test,
NAV be the means of inducing nations
at last to trust shcir de,tinies to the :
cheaper but uptr!ed arbitrament OF
(Copyisht. isi5. ty James Ma.raJ