The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-31
DISBURSEMENT
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questions by the simple application Of
the fourteen points or of any other
formula.
An example: Banat, claimed by
Hungarians, Serbs and Rumanians, Is
actually Inhabited by half score of
races no one of which is in the ma
jority. There are more Rumanians
than Serbs or Hungarians. but there
are several hundred thousand Ger
mans. Further, an chronological divi-
sion would result in economic paraly-
sis, since 1t would give one country
larger part OF territory but another all
railroad and river outlets.
To solve the Austro-H Hungarian prob
lem by faithful appreciation of the
right of self determination, would be
| to create a crazy quilt To settle 1t
on the basis Of economic interests
| would be to perpetuate chaos by con-
| tinuing a mixture of races, and yet
some solution, some settlement, must
be made.
! Peace Progress Threatened
| At the present moment, we have
seen the whole progress of the peace
conference threatened by the dispute
| of the Jugo Slavs and Italians over
| Ffume. A temporary compromise for
| this question may be found; a solu-
ton remains, practically speaking, i'm
possible.
There is not a well informed OBJ
server in Paris who does not believe
that war between the Italians and the
Jugo-Slavs is a moral certainty with
in the next decade. We have removed
the peril of Italia Irrendenta, but de-
spite the best intentions of the Paris
conference, new Irredenta has been
created on the Adriatic. Moreover the
old tendency towards combination is
reasserting itself. italian policy and
Roumanian policy march towards a
common alliance against Jugo-Slavs,
since Roumania claims all of Banat,
and Italy the Jugo Slav regions on the
Adriatic. A similar drift Of Hungarian
policy towards Germany is inevitable,
since Hungary will find herself with
out natural frontiers and reduced from
state of twenty million to an insig-
nifcant republic Of seven. German
with Germany.
| In uniting Czechs, Slovaks and Ru-
thenians, South Carpathians, the Paris
conference has liberated large num-
bers Of Slavs, but the new state 1t has
created defies all rules Of national ex-
istence It extends transversly across
mountains; railroads and highways,
uniting east with west do not exist
and cannot be built, and If the Czechs
and Slovaks have been united of their
own wish, the Ruthenians will clamor
| for unity with the Ukraine. Beside
/ the solution of the Austrian problem,
the German question is trivial. Actu-
ally, in creating half dozen new
states we have raised twice as many
new problems Exactly as the liberia
ton of the Greeks, Bulgars and Serbs
led to immediate rivalry between
these three new states, a rivalry
which provoked at least two wars be-
tween Serbia and Bulgaria and one
between Greece and Bulgaria, we have
now prepared the way for similar con-
f1icts between Poles and Czechs, be.
tween Poles and Ukranians, Czechs
and Ukranians, Roumanians and Uk-
ranians, Magyars and Roumanians,
Magyars and Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo-
| Slavs and Roumanians, Jugo- Slavs and
Italians, and Jugo Slavs and Austrians.
Sees Single Solution.
In all this welter of conflicting ma
tional aspirations single solution is
discoverable, although it seems today
Impossible TO realize. Inc reunion OIL
at least portion of Austria-Hungary
in economic If not political federation.
the association of Czecho-Slovaks,
Hungarians, Roumanians. Jugo-Slavs
and German-Austrians. This may lead
in time to the creation of situation
of peace and cooperation. But two
great powers will set their faces
against such solution: Italy, which
fears that such federation would
contest its supremacy on the Adriatic,
Germany, which hopes to acquire Aus
tria and, by preserving anarchy to the
southwark, keep alive the opportunity
to re-create Mittel Europa, which was
her dominating ambition before and
:. during the war.
1t must be apparent that the treaty
of st. German which we are presently
to make with Austria, and the subse
quent treaty which we shall make
with Hungary. will in fact settle moth
ing. To liquidate the Austro-Hungar
ian empire will at least be as compli
j. Gated and difficult an operation as
the liquidation of the Turkish empire
in Europe, which has taken a hundred