The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-27
MORE CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT
 OF NEW STATES
American Official Back From European Tour Says
 New Upheavals Are Due.
PREDICTS UNION OF HUNGARY 6 RUMANIA
Many People Already Are Disguised With Repub-
 lies; Want Monarchies.

Paris, Oct. ,27.-(By The Associat- ed Press). An intimate view of con- ditiOns in Eastern Europe is given by an American official just back from a tour through Poland, Czecho-Slo- vakia, Austria 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 stale. Everywhere is the in tr.gue, and struggle for power and place on the part of cliques and in~ dividuaIs and beneath Is the unrest and discontent of the masses. Ma uOnal independence has not brought Utopia and constitutions do not furnish bread.
 Tn Poland a strong opposition to MT. Paderewski has developed. Be- sides this Poland will suffer from acute hunger this winter. Her people are supporting an army out of all proportion to the popuation to guard her frontiers and any incident may
 bring a clash with the Czechs or Germans The Teschen question is acute and both countries are aflame. I doubt if a pleb:scite will settle it satisfactorily or permanently.
 Tn CZecho-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 Slavs. They have been very thoroughly subordtnated and resent the arrogant attitude of the Bohemians proper. Again, the drastic anti-German policy of the government is a source of danger. Czecho- -Slovakia, in a physi- al is off country over here. She has ample food and fuel and is thus in a com handing position. Her industries can resume with little outside help. With a strong government that country should survive and prosper. Her dan ger seems to lie in probable racial antagonisms with resulting political confusion.
 AS for Hungary, few people here believe 1t will survive as an inde- pendent country. Eventual union with Rumanta seems now inevitable, either with it's own king as vassal, or simply
 as part of the empire.
 The Ruma nians were quick to see
 the powerIessness of the Allies and
 simply disregarded the communica- tions from Paris. The so-called Inter Allied military mission, unbacked by anything real, is a farce. The other day a letter was sent to the Rumanfan commander by this mission, written in English, and he handed 1t back with the remark to communicate with him in a language understood
 by civilized people.
 Another Rumanian parsonage re-
 marked that the Paris conference had sent them very impolite note
 to which they were forced to reply in kind. These are merely illustrative
 of the conditions there.
 Hungary will starve this winter. It is beginning to starve now. The
 Rumantans have stripped it utterly, from seed wheat to the printing presses. They control and censor the
 mails and wires and are in fact and deed conquerors.
 Among men with whom I talked in Budapest, there is a conviction that if Hungary survives 1t will be only under a monarchy. The peas antry want a king and the old re- actionary crowd is powerful, acute and busy. The great landowners are still the great powers and with the church, form a powerful organtza- ton. Recently one of the great dig
 nataries of the Church approached the Inter-Allied mission with a pro- posaI to place the Duke of-on the throne of Hungary. In fact, there are any number of royal candidates in l the offing waiting to see what will | happen.
 "As for Austria, every province and every district is a separate govern ment by itself, acting independently and often In defiance of the Vienna government, which Is actually con- trolled, as far as any control goes, l by these workmen and soldiers coun- cils. Neither the Christian Socialists
 nor the Social Democrats have a ma | jority in the Assembly, so that the r All Germany party with it's member ship of about 39 has the balance of i power and throws it's vote to suit its l own ends. There must be terrible 1 suffering this winter. The country will be practically without fuel, and | 1t is a rigorous winter climate. Food | already is scarce and poor and daily increases in price. The hospitals are 1 still without supplies, the death rate | is high, and the streets literally filled with begging men and women and ! children. Highway robbery is prevail ent, smuggling rampant and there
 are signs of revolution unless con- 1 ditions quickly mend.
 There too, the body of the peo- 1 pie seem to want a monarchy. They i have had enough of RepublicantsIn 1 Well-inforrned people say a coup 1 q etat is not impossible. It would i not take much to place a king back 1 if he were 8 strong man with quality 1 of leadership. In any event the re-
 actionary element is strong and grow ! ing stronger in the absence of lead l ership, in the present government. "The Austrians are hopeless re- | garding their future and see only a l 17pioo with Italy or Czecho-SIovakla 1 if they are to survive. The country Is
 bankrupt, stripped of its resources by l the peace settlement and the people
 are too worn out to fight. In spite | of the treaty there is a feeling that
 some way will be tried to bring about union with Germany