Evening star., 1918-01-13
S|M0NDS' WAR REVIEW

S|M0NDS' WAR REVIEW
| Continued from Fifth Page3
| and also to conquer most Of Rumania,
whose collapse is assured by the Russian
surrender.
Accordingly, the German finds himself
| today. in position to deal with the prob
lem Of the Slavs. He has crushed the
| great Slav movement toward liberty and
union by overthrowing Russia; the Rus
sian revolutionists have forsaken all racial
aspirations, all thought of liberating their
brethren of Austria and Of the Balkans.
| to pursue the phantom of industrial and
economic utopias: they have DESTROYED
| their army, and they have now no choice
but to yield to German terms or else to
| face the consequences of resisting with
out weapons an enemy provided with
ing to the heart of Slavdom. Russia, as
| the German would say, is "kaput''
So much for the northern Slavs. Now
as for the Serbs of Serbia and Monte
! forth in Bulgar and Prussian statements.
Most Of Serbia. the valleys of the Morava
and the Vardar. are to fall to the Bulgar,
the balance to be added to Austrian Bos-
mia or permitted to subsist under a sem
blance of independence, but ruled by an
Austrian princeling. In word, 100000
more SlavS are to be placed under alien
rule, under Bulgar and Austrian, and the
last obstacle to ustro-German power in
the Balkans is to be eliminated.
| NOW, exactly what this means is clear.
! In the present war, when Germany and
Austria assailed Russia, they were able to
throw the military resources of 5000, 900
Slavs within their own frontier against
| the great Slay state which they were at
| tacking because it had ventured to cham
pion the Slav cause in the Balkans. With
out the aid of these Slav troops Austria
would have been overcome long ago, for
She had but 22.0O0,00O of German and
hungarian subjects who were loyal. In
| the next struggle with the Slav, bound to
come If the Slav world is now placed in
Ieutonic chains. Germany will have more
than 2OO00000 additional Slavs from
a central Europe in which 5000 900 Ger
mans will control the fate and fortunes of
Well-nigh 50,000,000 Slavs. use them for
cannon fodder, use them to advance the
cause of the German against the SlaV,
use them to make still stronger the Ger
man power in the world.
Would Bind Rumania.
| ! shall not at this time go into the
| subject of Rumania. yet it, is worth
noting that detail Of the German
plan is to put the 100000 Ruma-
mans of Hungary. Rumania and Rus
| sian Ressarabia in such leading strings
as to reduce them to the condition pro-
posed for Poland and make them SOL
commercially, politically and militarily
to the central group. And since Russia
has collapsed the Rumanians have no
| choice, no method of escape: they are
the helpless victims Of the Russian rev.
oiutlon, who automatically lost their
liberty when the Russian revolution
decided to destroy the Russian army
and negotiate with the Germans.
In sum; then, 55.000,00o Germans, al
l q witt
less than 100000 Bulgarians, are
planning to put under their yoke 49,
| 100000 Slavs and 100000 Ruma-
mans, more than half of whom were
1ree when the world war began. and
the remaining half of whom were NOV
ing toward political liberty under Aus
! trian yoke. And outside of Europe
Germany has fastened her power upon
100000 of people in European Tur-
key, who are also in her scheme Of
| things to supply economic resources
| and cannon fodder equally. Thus, in
| fact, 75,000,000 Germans are to rule
| 10000, 900 of other races. slavs. Hunga-
rian, Bulgar and Turk. This is the
present German plan, the first details
/ IN which have been sketched in the
terms proposed by the German repre-
sentatives at Brest-Litovsk
/ 1t requires no discussion to set forth
! the peril to the whole world of this
German plan. More than all else, we
are at war with the German idea which
conceives that power is the sole con-
aideration in international relations.
! winch conceiveS that the German as
the member of superior race, is per-
/; mltted to use any means to the end of
asserting this superiority. The German
/ believes in war because war has made
Germany great and each war has won
new provinces and new prosperity.
If the result of the present was is to
give Germany the mastery of the en-.
tire Russian seacoast and thus of Rus
sia: If 1t is to give her direct political
control of the Baltic provinces and in
direct control of Poland; if it is to
place Austria Hungary as well under
her domination. then the war will he
but a prelude to new wars. whatever
be the settlement in the west. and SO
far as German colonies are concerned
Germany could well afford to evacuate
Belgium, return Allace-Lorraine and
agree to Italian possession of Trent if
only she were to be left with free
hands to deal with the great Slavonic
world. to fix her own frontiers in the
| Baltic provinces and Poland to the
north and in the Balkan peninsula at
the south. With the further assurance
power in the Balkans gave her of pos
sessions in Asiatic Turkey, she would
be In position to defy the world at
once. and with the new resources in
cannon fodder of alien races, to con-
quer it when she had organized these
resources.
Germany Would Be Master.
The attention of the allies has so
long been concentrated upon the west
ern front and their thoughts so occu-
pied with the fate of France and Bel
gium that there is grave danger that
i 1t may be impossible now to arouse the
allied publics, become war weary and
/ confused. as to what the real perils of
the situation are. Actually Germany is
seeking to intrench herself in such
! fashion as to remain master of the
political and economic future of 125.-
| 100000 Slavs. including those within
and outside of Russia, and 1900. 900
Ruma mans. She is operating under the
cover of Russian formulae. which sound
IUtopian nots. to seize the territories
and the liberties of 100000 Slavs
along the Baltic and the Vistula. to-
gether with the Baltic seaboard of all
Slavdom: she is seeking in the Balkans
| to destroy the only barrier to her ex-
pansion into Asia.
1t is probably true that the task of
| permanently holding in subsection 1885,
| OOO, 900 SlaVs is beyond the capacity of
| the German. but temporary possession
! of these millions may enable her to
wreck the western world, dominate
Europe and plunge the world into n
! quarter of century of strife and of
anarchy. To make peace with Germany