The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-01-09
Senator Hitchcock Says This
Step is First Toward a
Permanent Peace.
WOULD CREATE
BUFFER NATIONS
Believes Poland, Rumania, Bo-
hemia, and Jugo Slavia
Would be the Countries.
Washington Bureau,
Pensacola Journal.

/ Washington, Jan. 3.-There can be
no stable world peace until Germany
and Russia are completely separated
by the establishment of line of buff
/ fer nations and the German soldiers
| and propagandists who have placed
Russia in a complete state of revolu
/ tion and disorganization, are driven
| back within their own borders, it was
asserted today by Senator Hitchcock.
chairman of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee.
| Until there is an entirely new order
of things in Russia and Germany the
world will be sitting upon an interna-
t3onal bombshell that may explode and
/ tear the peace of Surope to atoms any
moment the Bolsheviki can command
enough money to put through their
plans. senate foreign relations COM
mittee members believe.
Russia Comes First.
/ Senator Hitchcock expressed the be-
/ lief that the setting up of stable,
conservative government in Russia
and the removal or suppression of the
numerous turbulent elements within
the new republic will be one of the
first questions the American dele
gates will urge for consideration be-
fore the Versailles conference.
I There will be complete change III
the attitude of the allies and the
United States towards the Russian
situation and forcilble steps will be
Immediately taken to set Russia 8
house in order and destroy the mis-
chievous German influence over the
Russian Bolsheviki as soon as the
Versailles peace conference can con-
ference can consider the situation and
adopt plans for bringing order out of
chaos there. senate foreign relations
committee members asserted today.
Internal Affairs Awful.
Internal affairs in Russia today
are in a deplorable condition and call
for immediate consideration and ac-
tion by the Versailles conference said
chairman Hitchcock. president
Wilson and the other American peace
delegates have a deep interest in as
isisting Russia to establish q strong
government and bring about peace.
industry and prosperity in the new
republic. and / think they will urge
that this be one of the first matters
considered by the peace conference.
Russia must be saved from the
disturbing German element now with
in her borders and protected from the
pernicious influence the German pro-
pagandists are exerting over her peo-
pie before there can be hope of a
"The best way to remove this dan
gerous German influence from the
Russian government and people and to
make it impossible for Germany to
use the great Russian population and
unlimited resources as a tool at any
time the German junkers see fit to
again disrupt the peace of the world
is for the allies and the United States
to establish a line of buffer states be-
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Roumania and support them morally
and financially" continued Senator
Hitchcock. I'VE must not overlook
that German and Russia if united and
possessed of proper military equip
ment would COMPOSE a powerful mill
tary equipment would compose a
powerful military tarce sufficient to
tax the power OF the other nations to
suppress
| Chaos Reigns.
Affairs in Russia are most chaotic
The poulation is in a distracted frame
of mind that makes it easily suscep-
; tible to influence of corrupt German
propagandists set upon p1undering the
country. Russia is overrun by armed
Germans, Hungarians, Austrians
Poles, Jugo- Slavs, Czecho-Slavs and
other national groups who go about
in bands plundering the country and
preventing stability of government ol
industry.
"The United States and the allies
must either by assisting some rea
Russian group or by independent in
tervention, correct this state of affairs
and I expect to see one of these plans
adopted and carried out just as soor
as the peace conferences have op-
, portunity to thoroughly investigate
the situation and decide upon a plar
for concerted action
The army general staff has investi-
gated the Russian and German stu
ations, it is learned. with a view tc
being prepared to put the necessary
} number of American troops in Rus
J sia and Germany IL armed Intervention
is decided upon. But the genera
} staffs decision, If one has been ar