New-York tribune., 1919-04-01

panic in Paris. state Of panic per-
sists. All of a sudden it was realized
by those who were patiently endeavor-
ing to separate the races Of Europe, to
create new Europe out Of the old
ethnographic map, who had been dis
cussing abstract questions and theories
as If eternity were allotted to them
and no interruption possible, perceive
the first forward sweep Of Bolshevism
threatening the economic future Of
Europe and, second, a NV lin Of
policy opening for Germany which
might and probably would eliminate
all question of the signing of the mar
vellous document they were framing.
If we abandon the Poles, this Czecho-
Slovaks, the Jugo-Slavs and Ruma-
mans after having promised them alike
national refrigeration and military
support, they will leave us for Berlin,
as they must. One of the most emf
nent of the Polish leaders in Paris
told me yesterday: "If the Allies fol-
low the course they are now contem-
plating, Poland will make her terms
with Germany forever" Rumania has
almost as emphatically indicated her
readiness to break with her old allies.
If to get a peace that Germany will
sign we surrender the Poles to her,
if to placate the Bolshevists we leave
Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary
and Jugo-Slavia indefensible in the
pathway of the storm we shall lose
them. We shall lose them, first to Boil
shevism, and later, to Germany, and
restored Germany will Undertake
new task of organizing Central Europe.
wish l could make it clear to my
crisis which we face. The league of
nations was to be an association of
! the free peoples of the world, united
in a common faith in democracy and
liberty; but already, at least, half the
population of Europe have adopted
another faith and half Of the remain
ing population still adheres to it's old
doctrine which precipitated this war
If tho people of Germany and of Rus
sia and of Middle Europe do not &C
cept the principles Of the league of ma
tions, the league Of nations is nothing
except the basis of an alliance between
the United States, France, England and
Italy, against the alliance between
Bolshevism and Germanism to the last.
Lenine Unlikely
To Cry "Kameradw
We perceive at last that Trotsky and
| Lenine will not hold up their hands
and cry "Kammerad!" to the covenant
of the league of nations as announced
to their Red Cross. We are beginning
to understand that the walls of Prus-
sian Jericho will not fall when the
doctrines Of the league of nations are
trumpeted along the frontiers.
We have failed miserably, perhaps
with the assumption that all the peo-
pie of the so-called civilized world
thought alike and that if we created
constitution Of the world on free
and just ideals, all the world would
subscribe. The truth has always been
that Bolshevism had another faith,
founded on the idea of destroying our
democracy, an0 that the Germans
never renounced their gospel, which
was alike hostile To Western democ-
racy and Eastern Eolshevism. And
now we have come to the supreme
crisis. After five months we discover
that the world cannot he comprehend
cd in a single faith, thnt all our prem
ises were mistaken, and that we stand
in the shadow eith5r of surrender to
an enemy who will never rest until
he conquers us-that is, Bolshevism-
or accommodation with an enemy who
is only waiting to resume--that is, Ger
manism. We who set out to make the
world safe for democracy are now
hesitating as to whether we shall
mako it sure, either for the Boche or
the Bolshevist.
Copyright 1919. BY tho Mcclure Newspaper
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