The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-07

little perception of it, is that for
France and in only little less degree
for Britain, American cooperation is
matter of life and death for the next
ten or twenty years. With our aid
both countries can presently regain
health and prosperity and repay us
ten fold for any aid we may give. But
II we retire from Europe now, If wo
let accident and design combine to
create hostilities, the result for France
will be tragic, and for Britain serious,
while for Germany the gain will be al
most 1mmeasurable.
Lastly Germany will seek at once
to build new alliance and for such
PLY close at hand. OF her old allies,
the Austrians, the Hungarians and the
Bulgartans. are all equally dissatisfied
with the decisions of ersailles which
have compelled them to give up SUBJ
| tect races and territory held only by
force. Already the Austrians have in
dicated a desire to join the German
state, there is no other real future for
the Hungarians, and the Bulgars now,
at the end of third war for Balkan
negemony, find themselves even small
er and less powerful than before, the
smallest of Balkan states. 1t Is plain
that all three of these people would
readily turn back to Berlin, If only Ber-
lin-or Weimar-could hold out any
promise of aid.
Even more serious at the moment is
the Italian situation. Italy came to
! the Paris conference with a program
which included the possession Of the
Southern Slav lands at the head of
the Adriatic, Greek territories in Epl-
lus and the Aegean Island, the Turk
ish regions about Smyrna, Albania,
much Of Asia Minor and a claim for
new expansions in Africa For most
of these claims she has found oppo-
s!tion among the great powers; she
has. in addition, found lack of sym
pathy which has hurt her deeply.
One must recognize that pride is a
vital circumstance in the Italian cal
culation. Italy has never yet been
treated quite as an equal by the great
powers, she feels that her neutrality
saved France in 1914, that her en-
trance into the war in 1915 saved Rus
STA and that her agonies of 1917 and
her successes in 1918 entitle her tc
the same consideration as France
And in Paris, Italy has not found the
welcome she expected The result is
rot to be mistaken-when l was In
Paris Italians talked quite openly OF
return to the old German alliance
and French and British statesmen.
spoke of this as one of the certainties
provided only Germany were able te
get together herself and thus offel
a solid basis for common profit.
New Enemy Alliance
An alliance between Italy, Austria
and Hungary on the one hand will
Bulgaria as a fourth participant ane
Germany on the other, would NEAR
the suppression Of the Jugo-Sla'
} claims, which effect all four. 1tal.
would gain Fiume, Austria recovel
territories allotted to the Slavs a
Versailles, Hungary get back much, i
not all of Slavonia and Croatia, while
Bulgaria would get Macedonia. More
over Rumania, with quarrel on foo
ever the Banat, is already reported
, to have made her bargain with Italy a
the expense of her old allies.
France and America particularly
the British to a certain degree, hav
sympathized with the Southern Slav
: and with the Greeks in their jus
= claims for territories Inhabited b.
people of their races, but claimed b.
4 the Italians. There has been at al
times in Paris marked and CROWN
: coldness between the Italians an
t their associates. Now Italy has ha
domestic political crisis and it
t plain that in any event she will emery
I from the Deace conference far less rt