El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-06
5ERHiNY'S PEACE TREATYWITH
RUMANIA is FULL POWER BILL
Permits Germany to Exploit Rumania's Petroleum
Fields, Although Declaring for "No Indemnities'
and ''No Annexations'' Takes the Principal
Source Of Riches for Ten Years
Is Diplomatic Authority.

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troleum wells. the sole source OF na-
tional industrial riches. for a period
OF ten years. II must be added that
this treaty has not even left Ruma-
MIA the freedom OF remaining neutral,
but contains military clauses which
provide for the free passage OF Ger
man troops across MoldaVia, thus
making OF the unfortunate kingdom
a veritable ally OF the central en-
pires.
What such a peace signifies for us
and for Europe can be easily eX-
pressed in two sentences. first. no
recognition Of the rights OF small ma
tons; secondly, the creation OF Nit
tel Europa"
In the eyes Of the world Bulgaria
attempted 10 mask her unjust de-
mands- The Hungarians did not even
take the trouble; perhaps, also, they
had not the time. In December. count
Andrassy was the only one TO demand
q rectificatiOn Of the frontiers at Ru-
mania's expense Then his words did
not attract an echo, but the Bulgarian
appetite served TO sharpen the Hun
garian. It is in the name Of military
necessity that Rumanian households
are 10 pass under a foreign domination
and one may wen weep from the high
valleys Of the Carpathians TO the low
plains Of the Danube for the lost
country.
Promises to BE Forgotten.
This is not the place to protest
against the cOnquests OF war. They
are as abomina5le as war itself, but
what makes one writhe with indig-
nation is the brutal refusal to rec
Ognize the rights OF people TO dispose
Of themselves. the justice that Is pro-
claimed by thousands OF voices. by
means Of a persistent propaganda and
betrayed at each new signing of a
treaty ThnT~ fcnu for
gotten as soon as made. To disarm
morally the Rumanlan would be given
Bessarabia in exchange for the Do
brudJa, but when IL came TO signing
there was no longer a question Of Bes-
sarabia And yet the AustrO-Germans
wonder that their peace overtures are
received with such scepticism-
From a Swiss point OF view the
three treaties Of peace are nothing
short OF disastrous. The two first add
ed immeasurably TO the strength OF
Germany and disturb. 10 her profit
the balance OF power Of our neiEhbors.
The third, still more lugubrious.
brandishes before our eyes the most
dangerous instrument OF oppression
that menaces US. Rumania, closely
linked to Germany, Austria-Hungar
and Bulgaria, is the cement that binds
means prolonged economical warfare.
Peace. such as has been concluded,
is the hardest blow peace could pos
sibly receive It is worse than a new
declaration OF war. II the Germans
had been able to restrain themselves
and their desires. as many of their
own cCuntrymen wished. in their
dealings with Russia and Rumania, It
would be impossible TO recognize that
il would have been a step toward a
general peace. Whatever might have
been the sympathies OF the western
powers for oppressed peoples. it
would have been impossible TO de-
maud Of their own people to continue
such an atrocious war for foreign in
terests.