The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-24

At no time since the armistice has the ferment in Europe been so great as it is now. On the Arctic Coast, from the Baltic soutlward by way of the three Baltic States, Poland and the Ukraine down to the Black Sea, and in all of the southern regions of Rus sia there is war and want and misery. The Rounanians, though messa ges from time to time announce that they are beginning to evacuate Hun gary, are still in Budapest and have so thor oughly- stripped the unhappy country that one scarce knows how it will sur vive in the future unless it be driv- en by it's tortures as the torturers in tend, to secure actual union with Roumania. Roumania defies and des- pises the Paris Conference.
 Farther to the west D'Annunzio holds triumphantly his unlawful prize at Plume. The Italian Government is powerless to eject him, because it has no hold over the army or navy. It is well aware that if it orders the army to march against D'Annunzio, the ar my will disobey and is much more likely to march against the govern ment. D'Annunzio, too, despises the Paris Conference. Meanwhile the Extreme Socialists in Italy are laying their plans for a revolution. If D'An- nuZlO ana HIS 1I1peT1dllSl lTlSuOS set themselves above the established gov ernment, that, say the Socialists is Q game that two can play at, and with the rigor of 8 coal-less winter coming on there may be 9 chance { for a sudden blow armed by the rev. olutionary forces against the estab- 1ished system and the monarchfcal regime.
 Anarchy reaches it's height in the Baltic provinces. There are three governments there-the Esthonian the Lithuanian and the Lettisl1- whose chief aim is to assure their own independence. They have broken away from the old Russia, and they are afraid both of a revived Ger many and of an Imperiaistic Russia which might be set up on the ruins of the Bolshevist Government They have all been fighting in one degree or another against the Bolshevists at the instigation of the Allies, but 1atteIly they have begun to ask what their fate is likely to be if the pro- teges of the Paris Conference, Deni- kline and Kolchak, go to Moscow and establish themselves in power
 Well, they may ask. K, lchak has refused to guarantee the indepen- dence of these Baltic States. He goes no further than to say that their fate must eventually be submitted to constituent assembly of all Russia, while Denikine has come out boldly with a declaration for a united and 1ndivisible Russia which bodes i'll for the border states. Latterly, therefore, aln1 three of the Baltic States, and Finland, too, have shown an increas- ing disposition to make a peace of their own with the Bolshevikf, while the aim of the Allies has been to dissuade them and to keep them at war with the Moscow Government. The Baltic States, 100, it will be seen, have no high opinion of the Paris Conference. They do not believe that 1t has the power to impose it's wishes on the Russian allies and they are therefore disposed to shift for them selves.
 Another complication arises from the presence in Lettland of Won der Goltz and his German divisions. He, too, has been defying the Peace Con- ference, being more afraid of Bo1she- vism than of Germany, actually or dered Germany to keep these troops of hers in Courland, in order that they might form a barrier against an incursion by the Russian Reds and many volunteers were raised in Germany and went out and Joined liieII1- Then tn6 AllleS grew more afraid of Germany than of Bolshe- vism. They became aware that this Won der Go1tz ;~rmy, disciplined. wel1-equtpped and reinforced by many volunteers, was becoming a serious danger to the Baltic states and possibly to the Socialist Govern ment of Germany. It might be made use of by the mt1itarists in Germany to effect a counter-revolution.
 So the Allies ordered Germany to bring this army back. As it proved, Germany might order but she had little power.
 The German Government was it. self frightened lest these troops should be used for it's overthrow bv the mflitarist leaders, who cared lit tie for the German Government and N less for the Paris Conference In fact, Won der Goltzs men began to make war on Let's, our Allies and though no one can say positively what Is their aim and part in the ex- traordinary confusion which prevails 1t seems most Hke1y~that they will cast in their lot with the White Russians and, where they can, aid in the war against the Bolsheviki
 The one quality which is common to all these wars and browIs is the weakness, amounting to almost i'm potence, of the Supreme Council at Paris. Von der Goltz, Roumania, D. Annunzio-the story is everywher the same. Each rebel learns from his predecessors and each, as he rebels with tnpuntty, produces other rebels like himself. There will be no peace in Europe, some say, until the Coun- ell once and for all asserts itself, and this the Council does not, or cannot do.
 The Council, others say, has now all the authority that the League of Nations can assert in it's earliest stages; if it cannot even reduce the Roumanians to order, how will the League be able to carry out its will :? Why is it, then, that the Supreme e Council wanes and rebellion flour ishes? If that could be discovered, we should at least have taken a first step toward finding a remedy.
 Up to the time of the armistice the ultimate factor at the back of sI diplomacy was Force. All peoples and governments recognized this and regulated their actions by the know1- edge. Consciously or unconsciously,
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