The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-14
BALKAN STATES
 CONDITION IS
 GROWING WORSE
Anarchy Seen in Various Sections Delays Final
 Peace Adjustments.
IS HUNGARIAN RULE
 REALLY DEMOCRATIC?
Each State Seems Inclined to Defy Orders of Allied
 Council.

Washington, Aug. 13-Advices from Frank Polk, under secretary of state and chief of the American dele gatfon to the peace conference, indi- cate that there Is scant hope of the conference being able to clean up by oct l the remaining work for it to do- It was MT. Folks anticipation. expressed on the eve of his sailing from New York, that 1t would be DOS s1ble about that date to turn over Whatever questions were still unset tied to the executive council of the league of nations for final adjustment
 But since his arrival in Paris affairs in Eastern Europe and Asia Minor have gone from bad to worse.
 Roumania's defiance of the confer ence in persisting in the military oc- cupatfon of Budapest is merely typi- cal of the growing spirit of !awless- ness which is the dominant factor in practically every country beyond the Alps. The unavoidable dem obfliza- tion of the entente armies due to home eEigencies and the withdrawal of the immense American forces from Europe are regarded as the outstand- ing reasons for the tendency to dis regard the orders of the conference Another reason is the policy of play ing off the smaller allies against ca oh other which has been adopted by Italy since she persisted in the folly of openly anta agonizing the British, French and American governments
 Diplomats here would give a good deal to know whether Roumania had anything to do with the setting up of the Archduke Joseph's government in Hungary. The Archduke's procia- rnation of aSSu1,, r,tion If with startling abruptness after the occupation of Budapest by the Rou- manian army. At the least, It is said in diplomatic circles, the Rou- manians might have checI1-mated the archdukes plans had they elected to- Manifestly, therefore. they were con- tent that he should take up the task where Bella Kun left off
 The Burning Question.
 The burning question of the moment here is the honesty of the new Hun garian governments claims to de- mocracy. The truth seems to be that the administration does not know what to make of the situation. Con servative people suggest that 1t is a good thing to have undeniab1y conservative government in Budapest a preventative against a recurrence of Bo1shevism. The liberal sentiment, on the other hand, holds that g. gov ernment headed by a monarchist may be expected to stir up discontent against the Hungarian peasants. To make the situation more complex, Italy, which looked with favor upon the Roumanian defiance for the peace conference, has been much alarmed by the latest Roumanian pol icy of toleration of a scion of the Hapsburgs.
 It would be difficult to say just how much of the trouble confront ing the conference Italy Is responsi ble for, in whole or in part. Then, too. candor compels the statement that even if Italy had not been rnak- ing trouble on her own account, the conference would have plenty of nas- ty problems to solve.
 Nith Working Cautiously.
 Italy has been frankly dissatisfied with the treatment she received at the hands of her principal allies in the making of rewards for services in the war. The OrlanCo ministry undertook a policy of obtaining Ital- | ian ends by threats of withdrawal from the conference and of forcible | seizure of the territories claimed. As a consequence the Orlando ministry | fell. The Nitti cabinet has been much | more circumspect. It Is still trying | to attain Italy's maximum preten- | sions, but it is working by diplomatic | means beneath the surface of affairs. |
 1taly's policy now is to play the am l bitions and animosities of Greece, Ser | bia, and Roumania. against each 1 other, with a view thereby to advanc- | ing her own purposes. Thus, in AL | bania she has played the Serbs | against the Greeks. and the Afbanians l against both, to improve her claims for a mandate for the Moslem prin- l cipa1fty that she hopes to have es- | tabl1shed.
 In Asia Minor she has worked against the Greeks to further her own cause there, and to support that cause she has put up the bluff Of resting Greek claims in Thrace. Likewise. to offset the Jugo-Slav Prussian on the Dalmatian coast and at Plume, she 1fas not scrupled to incite the Roumanians to hostility to the Serbian claims in the much-1n- volved Banat of Temesvar, one Of the most complex ethnographfcal pug z1es in Europe, Roumanian troops have just occupied Temesvar, despite the terms of the arrnistice with Au- stria-Hungary and the orders of the peace conference which has not yet passed judgment on the conflicting statistics represented by Serbs, Mag vars and Rounanians in this region.
 In Montenegro also Italy has been intriguing against Serbia on behalf of the old King Nicholas, father-in- law of King Victor Emanuel and pensioner of the Italian crown, as we'll as for the purpose of extending the boundaries of the reborn Albania, which she expects to control under the League of Nations.