The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-27
EASTERN EUROPE
Is VERY UNSTABLE
An American Official Just Back from
Inspection Tour Thinks That Changes
viii Have to Occur in the Govern
ments Of All Those States.

Paris, Oct. 81 tBy the Associated
Press An intimate view OF condi.
tions in eastern Europe is given by an
American official just back. from tour
through Poland, Czecho- Slovakia, Aus
tria and later a visit to the Hungarian
capital at Budapest. He says
at seems inevitable that changes
must occur in the governments Of all
these new staes OF Europe None OF
them is stable. Everywhere Us the in.
trigue and struggle for power and place
and discomfort of the masses. Nation
al Independence has not brought Tito.
pia and constitutions do not furnish
bread.
SIN Poland a strong opposition tc
Mr.. Paderewski has developed Besides
this Poland viii suffer from acute hun.
ger this winter Her people are sup
porting an army out of all proportion
to the population to guard her iron
tiers and any incident may bring a
clash with the Czechs or Germans. The
Teschen question is acute and both
countries are afame. / doubt If 8
plebiscite VIII settle il satisfactorily Of
permanently.
"Tn Czecho Slovakia there is strong
opposition to the present government
which lacks strength in its person.
mel The danger there lies, however
more in the growing jealousy Of the
Slays. They have been very thorough.
" subordinsted and resent the AFRO
CANT attitude Of the Bohemians proper
Again, the drastic snti-Germsn policy
of the government is a source OF dan
ger. Czecho Slovakia, in a physical
sense, Ia better of than any othei
country over here. She has ample foot
and fuel and is thus In commanding
position. Her industries can resume
with little outside help. With strons
government that country should sur
vive and prosper Her danger seems t
lie in probable racial antagonisms with
resulting political confusion.
"As for Hungary, few people her,
believe 1t will survive as an independ
eut country. Eventual union with Ru
mania seems now inevitable, eithei
with its own king as yassal, or simply
as part Of the empire
"The Rumanians were quick to se
the powerlessness of the allies and sim
| ply disregarded the communication
from Paris. The so-caIled inter-alliet
military mission, unbacked by any
thing real, is farce The other da,
letter was sent To the Rumaniai
commander by this mission, writer
in English. and he handed it back witt
the remark to communicate with hin
in language understood by civilized
people. Another Rumanian personag
remarked that the Paris conference hat
sent them very impolite note Il
which they were forced to reply il
kind. These are merely illustrative o
the conditions there.
Hungary will stsrve this. winter. /
is beginning to starve now. The Ru
manians have stripped it utterly, from
seed wheat to the printing press. The,
control and censor the mails and wire
and are in fact and deed conquerors
Among men with whom | talked il
Budapest, there is conviction that !
Hungary survives it will be only unde
a monarchy The peasantry want
king and the old reactionary crowd i
powerful acute and busy. The grea
landowners are still the great powe
and with the church, form powerful
organization Recently one Of tn
great dignitaries of the church ap
preached the inter-a allied mission will
a proposal to place the duke of --
on the throne of Hungary. In fact
there are any number of royal candi
dates in the offing waiting to see wha
will happen.
CAS- for Austria, every province an,
every district Is separate govern
ment by herself, acting independently an,
often in defiance Of the Vienna gov
erument, which is actually controlled
as far as any control goes, by thes
workmen and soldiers councils. Neithe
the Christian socialists nor the socia
democrats have a majority in the as
sembly, so that the alderman part,
with its membership of about 80 ha
the balance Of power and throws it
vote to suit its ow1 ends. There mus
be terrible suffering this winter. Th
country will be practically withou
fuel, and it is rigorous winter eli
mate, Food already is scarce and poo
and daily increases in price. The hos
pitfalls are still without supplies, tn,
death rate is high, and the streets liter
ally filled with begging men, womei
and children. Highway robbery is prev
alent, smuggling rampant and there ar
! signs of revolution unless conditions
quickly mend.
There, too, the body of the peoplv