Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
WAR CRUSHES GERMAN
HOPE OF EXPANSION

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ultimate destiny that which is forecast for
Bulgaria; for IL Bulgaria and her allies
could win. Greece. having abandoned all
that she has eternally disputed with Bull
garla, would. through her very passiveness,
find herself confronted by victorious ma
tion which could. and very likely would
crowd her into rocky corner of the penn-
sula. Upon the other hand, with all indi-
cations pointing to ultimate allied victory,
what value to a passive Greece would be
the protection of a Pan-Germanic hege-
mony?
SERBIA and Rumania, when the Allies
win. as they will. will become automatlcal.
ly the important Balkan Powers. The PENN.
sula is large enough to satisfy their leglti-
mate ambitions. An allied victorious Eu-
rope, holding Jointly the balance of power,
will need Serbian and Rumanian co-opera-
tion and will not hesitate. think in fos.
tering aims for the eternal pursuit of
happiness that will favor these two ma.
tions seeking the same goal l believe 1t
a certainty that the victorious Allies will
see to it very carefully that, touching upon
the frontiers of Germanlc countries strong
and vigorous Powers become genuine reali-
ties
'"The Germanic dream of a Mittel Eu-
ropa had just one chance of realization
the support and cooperation upon the Bal.
kan peninsula of a Power sufficiently strong
to serve as a bridge to the Orient. Only
two of the Balkan States could serve this
purpose-Bulgaria and Rumania
'srhe Central Powers chose Bulgaria, ana
in the choosing relegated Rumania for all
time, from their point of view, TO the posi-
ton of a second-rate Balkan Power pro-
vided they won the war But by the same
coup, they started the wedge that opened
the gap through which Rumania has en-
tered the camp of the Allies. There is not
enough earth on the peninsula for a great
and powerful Bulgaria and a great and
powerful Rumania. side by side. A strong
Bulgaria would fatally crush an inactive
and powerless Rumania- Rumania in the
pursuit of her own happiness, has seen the
| forecast and chosen. The Bulgarian dream
of little time past, her dream at the time
of entering the war, has vanished into thin
air.
Hungary. too. is lost. She already sees
the hand of fate reaching out toward ner
| She thought, in leaning upon the German
| to dominate through the Germanized Aus
| trian. The people which Bismarck called
| les cavaliers tzlganes have been overtakeu
| by the vertigo of their waltz with Ger
| many Due to their mediocre chronological
| Importance. they had but one chance for
| survival as people: to show by word and
| deed and action that they were good Euro
peans.' They chose otherwise, and now find
themselves between the maws of Slavic and
| Rumanian jaws. Their true cousins the
| Turks. will go down TO political nothing
ness with them.
$50 the battles now being fought In the
1 Pal h1W fa far afFfa ahnw. Al
| mere defeat of Teutonic allied forces. Their
| end and aim are the cutting Of the Gordiar
knot of European poltics-the problem OF
| the Balkans.
'Tn the new Europe now dawning. the
newly reconstructed victorious Powers will
and must be strong in order to guard
| eternally against common enemies and safe.
| guard the stability of state and the inde.
| pendence of nations that they will have
bought in the victory OF right over might.