El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-11
The War is almost over. At
any time now we should re-
|ceiye official adyices that pre-
LET US HAVE
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PEACE


~ This is not the proper time place to consider at
length the transcendenta that have taken place
during the conflict and those that will follow the di
rect indirect results of it, But let review the
h situation the political changes that have seen,
during the last four and half years. and those read
ustments that seem to be imminent and necessary, in
order to restore health to a seriously wounded world.
year 1914 we find Europe to be nothing but two
igantic armed camps where two armies, tacty agreeing
to truce that lasted some foryhree years. counting
and increasing their forces realigning hem combining
them in accordance with that ypocrita art called dpo
T. macy and by all making preparations for the
nGmpending renewal ohostites for nothing but
H truce the then existing status of Europe, although
INDEED long inte1mission, if we remember what has
has been the perpetual life Of Europe since the beginning
of History.
AWhen the War finally broke out it was clearly per-
efed that it would not be conflict like the preceding
ones 3was going to be something extraordinary, not
exactly because of the quantity of combatents
and area affectedbut because of the character Of the
struggle and the consequences it would certainly bring
From the very commencement Of hostiities judiciOus
minds remarked that the sociopotcal condition of
anng in the Goth Century, and the degree Of cviliza
Y0n attained by the world would not tolerate the struggle
to end just like any other war; but that great
transcendenta changes due; that the War would
shake the political and social structure of the world to
Its very foundations SO it has happened
of nearly two hundred mil
lion souls and greater in extent than the Roman Empire
was at its greatest expansion Russia the infrm and
ndevelopped giant much feared by the advanc
ed members of the family of nations the first to
collapse unable to resist not exactly the forces from
vaguely seeking the light of Liberty only accomplished
their national dissolution Out of that colossal fabric
at teastten different states will be formed all with
i or less democratic governments.
m The Balkan peninsula has been the contention bone of
Eastern Europe since the powerful Turkish Empire
1.be2 n2eclne and unable to it's position in Eu
RIDER. The desintegration of the Ottoman
the Balkan peninsula is concerned, starts
Greece finally shakes the Turkish yOke
htermittently during the 10TH Century and
Completed in 1911, when the Turk would had
itelV expelled from Europe, had not the
of Austria prevented the victors - Greece,
Id Bulgaria-from obtaining the due share in
dearned spoils. Here in this last of Balkan
the present War really originated as it lead
to the events that brought face to face,(n the
It of eastern Europe, the rival major powers of
la and Austria.
lustria Behold 'Iation" which in reality
Sted Nor proper name that it may call it's
had this peculiar conglomerate of varagated people,
is Babel nation where, t>s said, sixty different
natiOnates hate each other and give the whole the
pompus title of empire" Austria, indeed has been
historical miracle; it is remarkable how this estate"
has been able to hold its since its creation in 1906
one hundred and twelve year ago. To-day Austria
is more and from her present state of revolution
several states will emerge, all with less
democratic form of government.
81 The German Empire such it constituted at
Versailles in 1871, by Bismarck nothing but mi
sltary 0lgarchy aggressive society of sodiery peO
pies, which in order to obtain interior stability and
n exterior expansion delegated the direction of its
military affairs Prussia the strongest of the family,
the which best handled the sword. Such an
chrenism condemned to disappear in the way
it created by blood and iron, and for all the
time it should be demonstrated that the Attlas Tanner
lanes and Napoeons those dreamers in world domina
ti0n entirely out of place in the GOTH Century 1t
will not be necessary for the vctors to break up Ger
Tnany the vanqushed Germans will attend to that them
selves and ont of their imperial ruins several states
should spring all with democratic governments
AS to the transcendental changes that this will
bring, in connection with future international inter
course, ii be asserted that universal disarmament
and an international Court of Arbitration, with suff
cent power TO enforce its decisions will he in the list
Had the final settlement been left entirely In European
hands, it is doubtful il satisfactory and permanent