The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-10
Other Possibilities.


But this does not exhaust Rumaniar
possibilities. There remains the Hun
garian province of the Banat, with an
area of 10000 square miles In which
the Rumanians are the largest single
race group. There are, too, regions on
the frontiers of Transatlantic which are
Latin in language Certainly some OF
these adjoining districts will ultimately
come to Rumania, and we shall sec
recognized at Versailles new Rumania
with an area substantially equal to that
Of Italy, with a population OF more than
Is, 900 900, containing within its 'front.'
iers some OF the richest mines and most
fertile lands in the world.
Thus. between the Danube and the
Black sea, commanding the mouth of
the great river and advanced sentinel
Of the Latin world, a permanent bar
rer against a new German onrush and
an equally formidable obstacle to any
new Russian drive to the Balkans, a
considerable nation has arisen as re-
suit of this war, a state as large. as
Italy and containing more people than
did Italy two generations ago. More
over this thing will De accomplished
before, not at Versailles.
In quite the same way the Jugo
Slav state is taking FORM We had the
news the other day that the Monte
negrin king had been deposed This
was only III par uue " uIniihe VI ->Si
olas, because of his conduct during this
war. 1t was mainly the expression OF
the desire of the Serbs of the Black
mountain to remove every possible OBJ
stacie to union with the Serbs Of the
larger state and also with the South
ern Slavs. In the same direction have
been the movements IN Serajevo, In
Agram tZagreb), in kaibach. The pre-
limlnary steps. have been taken, tc
bring about a federation of the Slo-
yenians, the Croats, the Serbs OF Bos'
MIA. Herzegovina. Daimatia and the
Serbian kingdom. =,
This new state thus formed will alsc
be as large as Italy. 1t will have 8
population OF above 100000 and II
viii be bounded by the Drave, the
| Danube, Greece and the Adriatic sea
with frontier marching with Italy
| in Istria and conceivabiy In portion
! OF Dalmatia This Jugo-Slav state vii
| be the second barrier to German marcf
| southwark both TO the Adrfatic and tn,
Aegean. In company and alliance witt
Rumania and Greece, reviving the al
| lance of 1918, treacherously abandoned
| by Constantine, now gone into exile
the Jugo Slav state viii oppose a sole
bulk Of territory, larger than Germany
or France, with population OF more
| than 30 000, 900 to any new German
foray toward Trieste or toward Saloni
ka and Constantinople.
The reintergration OF the Poles Il
proceeding daily. Czecho- -Slovakia II
| rapidly assuming a definite shape, per
hans by the time that the peace con
ference assemblies the great geographi
cal and political problems will have beer
settled and 1t will merely remain fol
the congress to settle the disputed
questions OF frontiers.
We are less than two months from
the armistice of Senlis, which registered
| German failure and downfall. but II
that time we have seen the liberation
Of more than 60,o0o0 900 people and tn,
construction OF four great states
Poland, Czecho- -Slovakia, greater Ru
mania and Jugo-Slavia.
These sixty millions were a part o
the German plan Of world supremacy
| They have escaped this fate, they hav
| begun their own free existence Ger
| tainly these events since the endin,
OF the war will have an enduring po
litical Importance hardly to be exag
gerated.
7Copyright, 1918, by the New York Tri
bune Association, Inc.)