Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29

sections long included in the Austr"-
Hungarian dominion. though peopieu
chiefly by Rumanians.
X *
Turkeys future is almost wholly a
political problem, though in the soiu-
ton of it many terri
Turkev's torial matters will neceS-
sarily arise. There Is.
1utuIe. first of all, the item OF
he Turkish holding in Europe. II
the Moslem state is to be permitted
q definite existence, but only in ASIA
the question Of the control OF ih"
Dardanelles and the Bosphorus Will
probably prove the most vexatious oi
all at Paris. And in Asia Their are
boundary problems, affecting the Al
menians, whose future autonomy J.
naturally in the balance. TURKEY nd
already forfeited her claims to Arabi',
where a new state has been crcatt'
in the course of the war
1t is impossible to foresee the eA
tent to which these territorial ad1us'
ments will proceed In Asia Mlhoi
and to what extent Persia VIII pc a
fected. The whole Black sea hihtei
land and the Caspian area arc mat
,ers of grave difficulty, owing 10 III"
uncertainty as to the Russian organ
ization of the future. There are Al
ready serious conflicts IN that quar-
ter, tribal claims clashinE in a lni'h
ner to promise series OF outpI Cd n
hat may call for international AZ
ton.
Poland offers peculiar difiicuit1es
in the matter of delimitation. il the
ancient Poland were
n11 to be restored the
largest single state ia
bOnemla. Europe. save Russia,
would result. But there is PLAINLY Ii"
such possibility. for the Poland O.
old was so long ago partitioned, AN"
so often, that it is now out OIL Inv
question to attempt to draw s'riN
| Chronological lines. Russian PoI'lha'
German Poland and Austrian Poland.
constituting the state which Was Inc
last to be parfitioned. may form "a
body of the new state. Some proinis'
has been made that the new foidu'
shall have window on ~ III,
the north The cutting OF that VIZ
dow is certain to be u Glfficuit oI'
alton affecting as IL must the 'eir'
toriai holdings of both fefih"hN "'u
Russia But there was never 80
favorable an opportunity LOT IL "S -
present. ,..,.
rs Bohemia. but is now Czecho-Si",
yakia becomes a national eniltY WIN
n.rhaps the least difficulty OF All ft"j
new resultants of the great war al
though there are chronological claims
arising out of this rcnascence INA,
conflict with German. Magyar ahd
Austrian titles. 1t is In the dehnitioh
of the boundaries OF such states d.
poland and Bohemia, to use the more
familiar name for the Latter lhat IN.
experts now studying the problems a.
pa ris will be of the greatest service
.
These experts will doubtless b''
called upon to trace race groups o.
the maps, to sho~
r4L.,.,;.,, the position of lan
guage boundaries anu
( UlmcultleS. to indicate the areas
that can be assembled under distinct
jurisdictions with the least likelihood
of future conflicts, such as those tina
hroupht about the great war. In snv
drawing of the chronological maps
many peculiarities appear. lsianos o.
detached colonies OF people speakihs
the same tongue. but differing IN Gus
toms, traditions, race teelihs ano
sneech from those around them oc-
cur throughout Austria-Hungary. I"
group all the peoples OF the sam.
speech under a single flag is ohvi-
ously impossible. In the final settle
ment OF many of these questions com
promises will be necessary. And the
hone is that the compromises viii not
be such as to cause frictions that can
not be allayed by wise administrator,
and that will not tempt ambitious
powers in the future to seek aovhs-
=, 90 .hrou~l> slfv,lomacv- or intf1yns.