The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-28
THEORIES OF
PEACE HEADS
Affected BY
RED Menace
Bolsheviki Advance in East
ern Europe Adds to List Of
Conference Anxieties -
New Danger to Allies.
URGE unified COMMAND
BY FRANK II. SlMONDS.

NSOPS ISlS, Dy Us NCCluTe News
paper Syndicate)
PARIS, March 2S.-Announcement
of the outbreak of a Bolshevist revo-
luton in Hungary has produced some
thing approaching panic in the Paris
peace conference. The fact has sur
prised those who have been warned
repeatedly for the last four months
of facts as contrasted with theories of
the eastern European situation. Nor
does the Hngarian incident complete
the list of anxieties. Paris knows that
the Bolshevists have conquered Hun
gary. 1t knows also that the Rou-
manian situation is becoming critical,
and 1t has almost general testimony
from those returning from Poland that
Poland is completely undermined by
Bolshevism.
While Diplomats Argue
Last week, the peace conference
occupied large part of it's time in
endeavoring to decide how wide it
should make the neck of Poland, what
the width should be of the corridor
connecting the Poles with the sea. 1t
found the decision beyond it's capacity
and the matter is still adjourned. But
while the peace conference Is strug-
Cling to make decisions which might
restore order and open the way to
life in the east of Europe, such organi-
Zation as exists there is crumbling to
nothing, and Bolshevism is advancing
while the allied diplomats debate.
1t would be difficult to exaggerate
the gravity of the situation in Europe
today as a result of four months with
out decision following the victory of
last November. Then Germany was
at our feet, prepared to accept our
sentence incapable of resisting it. To-
day it is the testimony of many who
know Germany that Germany will sign
no treaty of peace such as we may
some time formulate; that she will in
vite us to occupy her territory, be-
lieving that our armies of occupation
will be-. corrupted by Bolshevism,
while her property will be protected
from domestic disorder.
Two Enemies in Europe
We have two enemies now in Eu-
rope where we had one enemy four
months ago. Germanism, which was
crushed, Is reviving Bolshevism,
which was a mere distant threat con-
fined in the main to the Muscovite
district of the old Ramonoff empire,
has now crossed the Carpathians and
reached the shores of the Danube. 1t
has separated Poland from Roumania,
it has broken into central Europe.
1t remains to be seen whether the
belief of many well-informed people
that Germanism is prompting Bolshe-
vism still, as in the past, is accurate
or not, but more and more it begins
TO be the belief in Europe that Ger
man patriots and German soldiers are
,-r;r t1a ott 1f al hnx
on the entente in the hope that Ger
many may regain her position in the
world when Bolshevism has completed
the exhaustion of the western powers.
Today Bolshevism has reached Bu-
dapest. 1t is approaching Odessa, if
is has not already occupied that town.
II is about to sweep Poland, and the
Paris conference has hesitated for
months over sending two Polish divi-
sions from France to their own coun-
try to aid in the defense of the Polish
state. Between the Black sea and
the Baltic, over all that mighty stretch
of territory the allies have not four
full divisions. The road to Vienna is
open to the Bolshevists at Budapest,
and the occupation of Vienna cuts the
only raidroad by which the allied
world can communicate with Bohemia.
If Bolshevism reaches Bohemia, we
shall have nothing left between the
new Italian frontier and the forces
of Lenine and Trotsky save Poland,
which we have condemned to death,
and Czecho Slovakia already practical
ly isolated
The Trouble in Paris.
Whence flows the evil which is be-
coming more and more apparent at
Paris? From inability TO reach de-
cision and endless debate over the
separation of the continent of Europe
equitably. Fundamentally it would
seem from the fact that Europe, under |
the impulsion of President Wilson, has |
first adopted a set of abstract princi- |
pies and then tried to arrange living |
facts in accordance with dead morali- |
ties. The British delegation has |
adopted with enthusiasm Mr. Wilson's |
doctrine of self-determination of peo- |
pies, and from Ireland to India by |
way of Egypt, by way of Malta, by |
way of Cyprus, there is beginning to |
be heard the clamor of the subject |
peoples of the British empire for ap- |
plicatiou of their specific cases of the |
principles OF self-determination adopt |
ed by the British in Paris. We have |
dcClltu OI llt ilSAC VI lAt
Poles to have an outlet on the sea, and |
we are trying to find some reason |
why waht is right in the Baltic with |
respect to the Poles is irrevocably |
wrong in the Adriatic with respect ia |
the Serbs.
We have today in Europe war be-
tween the Poles and the Ukrainians,
between the Poles and the Germans; |
we have war about to break out be-
tween the Roumanians and the Hun
garians, If the Roumanians do not
pass over to Bolshevism. We have
something approaching mobilization |
alike of the Italians and the Jugo
Slavs in Dalmatia and on the Carni
ola front we have war between Serbia