Evening star., 1917-04-08

whenever she chose to bid again for
world power
Accordingly. allied policy has decided
upon the abolition of Austria; certain
portions are to be allotted to states
with populations of the same race.
Italy is to have Trieste and the Trcn-
tino, with their italian population. a
new southern Slsy state is to be Gre
ated out of the Croats, the Slovenes,
the Serbs of Austria and the Serbs of
old Serbia and Montenegro .Transyl-
vani3 and portion OF TemesVar,
which contain a large Rumanian popu-
lation. are to be allotted to Rumania,
together with a portion Of Bukovina
Western Galicia is to go to the new
Poland, since its population is entirely
Polish. Eastern Galicia is to be joined
to the Ukrainian districts of Russia
Hungary is to be further restricted by
the loss Of the regions along the Car
pathians populated by Slavs, but, with
these changes, left free. Bohemia, Mo-
ravia and the Slav districts along the
Carpathians are to be Joined in free
Slav state; the remaining provinces,
largely Teutonic, will be permitted to
No Mittelsuropa.
By such a course more than 25.oo0,ooo
Slavs, Rumanians and Italians. half the
population of Austria Hungary, will
be removed from the control of an AUS
trian and Hungarian minority, which
has surrendered it's own freedom and
policy to Germany. The German con-
ception of a Mitteleuropa will be for
ever destroyed; across the pathway ol
Teutonic expansion to the near east
will be thrown a strong southern Slav
state extending from the Drave and
the Danube to Greece and Albania.
In the same way there wNl be erect
ed on the German eastern frontier q
Polish barrier to German eastward ad-
vance. This Poland will include not
merely Russian and Austrian Poland
but most of German Posen and West
Prussia, certainly the mouth of the
ViStula and the port OF Dantzic; EaS'
Prussia may become portion OF the
Russian Lithuanian districts, which are
to have an autonomous status, or II
may be permitted to continue as de:
tached portion of Germany, separated
from the rest by the Polish strip along
the Vistula. Such a change would no.
! take from Germany, outside of Eas
| Prussia any considera bic territory IL
| which the majority of the people were
| German. and it would give Poland ar
| outlet on the sea, without winch i
would be at the mercy of Germany, as
Serbia was throttied by Austria before
! 1912.
The remainder of the changes that
the allied statesmen contemplate have
no bearing on the present discussion
save as it is recognized that Bulgaria
will be reduced to the limits of l9l
and Russia will occupy Constantinople
and Armenia. All of these projects were
set forth in the statement of terms
made by the allies in their response tc
| President Wilson.
Plan to Free Various Races.
| At bottom these terms have military
and political purpose exactly CORE
spending to the terms written into
many treaties following the wars il
| which France sought domination of the
European continent. Austria is now ir
the position with respect to Germany
that Spain occupied toward France al
the time of the war of the Spanish sue
cession and following the Napoleonit
success that placed Napoleon's brother
upon the Spanish throne. But unlike
Spain. Austria is not a country of q
single race but of Il score, and allied
policy now aims at freeing the various
races, where the policy of the earlier
alliances aimed merely 1t liberatinS the
Spanish people from an alien dynasty
and yoke.
Manifcstly such q program is preGi :