The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-07
EUROPE
IS now SCENE Of
FUSS AND TURMOIL
No Nation in Section Feels
Safe Against Elements Of
Danger That Struggle With
Those In Authority.

FAhla Nova z. lBy Associated Press,1 |
An intimate view Ct conditions ia
Eastern Europe is given by an Ameri-
can official just back from q tour
through Poland. czecho- slovakia, Aus.
tria and later a visit to the Hungarian
capital at Budapest. He says:
ut seems Inevitable that changes
must occur In the governments Of all
these new states OF Europe. None OF
them is stable. Everywhere Is the in-
trigpe and struggle for power and place
on the part OF clidues and individuals
n beneath Is the unrest and. Giscon-
tent of the masses, National indie
pendence has not brought Utopia and
constitutions do not furnish bread.
In Poland a strong opposition TO MIR.
Paderewski has developed. Besides this
Poland will suffer from acute hunger
an army out OF all proportion to the
population to guard her frontiers and
any incident may bring a clash with
the CEechs or Germans, The T'esehen
question Ia acute and both countries are
aflame. ! doubt II a plehiscite will set
tie 1t satisfactorily or permanently.
In Csecho- Slovakia there Is strong
opposition to the present government, |
which lacks strength in it's personnel.
The danger there lies, however, more
IN the growing jealousy Of the SLAVE. |
ordinated and resent the arrogant at |
tltude of the BohemianS proper, Again,
the drastic antl-GeEman policy Of the
government is q source Of danger,
better off than any other country over
here. She has ample food and fuel and
is thus in a commanding position. Her
industries can resume with little out
side help. With q strong government
that country should survive and PROS
nap AAr AanHap naArNW IN lie S4
probable racial antagonisns with re-
sulting political confusion.
"As for Hungary. few people hero
believe II will survive as an independ-
mania seems now inevitable, either. with
It's own king as vassaL or simply as
part Of the empire.
1.-THE Rumanians were quick to SEQ
the powerleSsness OF the allies and
simply ~disregarded the communications
from Paris. The so-called i~nterallied
military mission, unbacked by anything
real, ID a farce, The other day q letter
was sent to the Rurnanian commander
, by this mission. written in English, ana
he handed 1t back with tho remark to
communicate with him in q language
understood by civilized people,, Anoth-
err RumaTdan parsonage remarked that
the Paris conference has sent them q
very impolite note to which they were
forced TO reply in kind, These are
merely illustrative Of the conditions
Hungary will starve this winter. 1t
Is beginning to Starve now. The Ra-
manians have stripped 1t utterly, from
| seed wheat to the printing presses;
5 They control and censor the mails ana
wires and are In fact and deco con-
} querors. IN. q,
) Budapest, there Is a conviction that II
} Hungary survives it will be only unde
} q monarchy. The peasantrs want a
, powerful, acute and busy. The great
} landowners are stiii the great power
? and with the church, form q powerful
} organization, Recently one of the srea.
I dignitaries Of the church a~pproacned
} the interaIlied mission with a proposal
Z to place the duke OF -. on me
} throne OF Hungary. In fact, there are
: any number Of royal candidates In the
z offing waiting to see what VIII happen;
( "As for Austria every province ano
7 every district Is a separate government
( by itself, acting Independently and Of
ten in defiance OF the Vienna govern :
( nnent. which Is actually controlled, as
far as any control goes, by these work.
( mon and soldiers councils. Neither tne
Z Christian socialists nor the. social DEM
( ocrats have a majority In the assembly,
( SO that the all German party with It's
membership of about 80 has the balance
s Of power and throws Its vote 70 SUIT itS
own ends. Inefe musl pe tSiiiu'O otn,,
s ferIng this winter. The country VIII
be- practically without fuel. and II 10 q
) rigorous winter climate, Food ALREADY
. Id scarce and poor and daily increases
. in price. The hospitals arc stu with
' out supplies, the death rate y high
and the streets literally filled with peg
sinR men and women ana ,children'
Highway robbery Is prevalent, snug
TMng rampant and there are signs OF
revolution unless conditions quickly
= mend. norl0
"There, too, the bndy OF the people
seem to want a monarchy. They y
had enough Of Republicanism,. Well
informed people say o coup delat u
not impossible. 1t would not take nucn
to place a king back If he were q strong
man with quality OF leadership In any
event the r~eactionary element is strong
and growing stronger In the absence O
leadership, In the present government
'aThe Austrians are hopeless regard
ing their future and see only Q uniol
With Italy or Czecho- Slovakia II they
are TO survive. The country is nank.
r,nt. stripped OF its resources bty tne
neace settlement and the people art
100 worn out to fight. In spite OF tnt
treaty there is a feeling that some WasS
Win Be tried to bring about union VIII