Evening star., 1917-04-08

Gated upon complete success in tho field.
This success may have two phases;
there fi,', may be conquests in Turkey and
Bulgaria corresponding to the British
successes in Spain century ago. which
may lead to the collapse of Turkey and
to a change of sides by Bulgaria such
as SaXony made after Leipsic. or the
minor states may share the general
debacle that comes when Germany is
defeated The campaigns in Asia Minor
and Macedonia are obviously intended
to hasten the end in these fields.
But IL one is to understand the new
phase of the war. the last phase, the
essential fact must be grasped that tho
allies have resolved to put 1t out Of tho
power OF Germany to repeat the present
attack. and in doing it profit by the
tonic people. excluding from this count
the Magyars, who are by choice allies
of the Germans. The cardinal doctrine
of allied policy is the elimination of
tions; the sole possible modification Of
this project would be the escape OF
Austria from German control and .
separate peace with Vienna, but even
Austria of more than a third Of her
present area and impose upon her q
domestic policy which would grant to
the Czechs and the Croats rights now
possessed by the Magyars and the
Germans.
Allied Policy Hardened.
Allied policy has noticeably hardened
in the last six months. suspect the
course of the Germans in laying waste
vast areas in France will still further
embitter the nations who have resolved
,, to end the war only after victory, but
the key to all allied policy is found in
the determination to prevent a recur-
of q
lines of 1914. Hence the death sentence
that has been passed upon Austria and
upon Turkey. death sentence follow
ing the surrender Of Austria and
Turkey to German control and leader
ship.
Conceivably a German revolution. a
thing not dreamed of In London or
Paris when ! was there. but to be con-
sidered now that Russia has risen, may
modify allied terms in a minor de-
gree, but only in minor degree, for
the profound conviction exists in allied
| capitals that the present war was not
| the work of the HohenZollerns alone.
but of the whole German people. can
conceive it possible that the mutfla-
ton of eastern Prussia might not be
insisted upon if there were a German
| revolution. but even this modification
would conflict with the Russian deter
mination to rescue the Slavs of tho
eastern marches from German oppres-
sion.
The whole situation strangely recalls
the situation a century ago, when be-
fore Leipsic all the great powers of
Europe united to put an end to the
Napoleonic menace. and after Leipsic
began to formulate that policy which
found expression later at the congress
of Vienna. after Waterloo had perma-
nently disposed of Napoleon. The single
outstanding difference is that the allies
of 1917 do not ina gine that II will be
possible to restore the ante-bellum con-
ditions, while those of a century ago
We're resolved upon such a course and
wrote their resolve into the documeur
Of Vienna.
Major Purpose of Allies
To erect Il new Poland, new Serbia,
new Bohemia, to expand Rumania by
including within its frontiers millions
of Rumanians now subject to Austria
and Hungary, to unite with Russia
some millions of Slavs between the
Carpathians and the Bug and Danies-
ter. to put Russia at the Golden Horn
as a final barrier to Teutonic ambitions
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