El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-09


who predict that these political in
fants will come into the Lenine-
Trotszy orbit base their fears on
propaganda and force to be exerted
by their neighbOrs after those neigh
bors, Hungary, Austria. Rumanis, Po-
land and Germany. have themselves
gone BOlshevik- IN addition. the report
ed imminent Boishevising OF Bulgaria
may have an effect on Servia- If
everything else in the east turns red.
the Bohemians viii probably hold out
to the last the Jugo-Slavs are not so
well disposed toward Paris, because
OF the long delay in the recognition
OF the union Of Servia with her
brethren in what was Austria-Hun-
gary. and because OF the intensely
bitter quarrel with Italy, whom the
Jugo-Slavs believe to be unduly IA
vored BY the other great powers
A Prophetic Dream
Last night I dreamed that had
slept 100 years and just awakened
was reading an essay describing the
overthrow OF the old civilization fol-
lowing the great war. written by an
Albanian historian in the year 2019;
the Albanians, IL seemed, maintained
their Independence in their mountains
against the Bolshevik world. as they
did for centuries against the Turkish
savant had written:
During the early part Of 1913 the
statesmen OF Europe and America
sought to reach a compromise that
would fulfill the old style territorial
and economic demands Of the French
and Italian representatives and at the
same time not affront American
ideaiism as represented by the last
great man produced by that extinct
form OF government democracy. Wood
row Wilson. For the European real
ized that the military and naval sup
port OF disinterested America was
necessary II a league Of nations was
TO prevent future wars. and, more
over, they knew that with all the
other countries greatly IN the debt OF
the United States the economic
friendship OF that country was es-
sentiaL
They were unwilling. however. and
their stubbornness ultimately proved
fatal. 20 abate or cancel their partic-
ularistic aims in return for what Will
son offered them italy demanded her
pound Of flesh in Dalmatia as guaran-I
teed by the secret London treaty.
France insisted on annexation OF
purely German territory and indem-I
mites 70 which no German govern
ment could agree.
sfWIson's contribution to the
catastrophe was his willingness to
argue and debate, month after
month. while starvation. anarchy
and despair spread throughout the
continent. He even returned TO
the United States and wasted
three weeks to discuss criticisms
Of his league OF nations scheme.
When the armistice WINS signed.
all the suffering populations OF
central and eastern Europe.
friendly a. well as enemy, looked
to Wilson to give them speedy
peace and food. As the months
went by and their distress in
creased and they saw their foes
grabbing territory right and left.
they began to lose their faith In
the American president.
Wilson was too modest. he did
not realize his hold on the peoples,
his power to dictate an immediate
American peace to Europe, nor that
such dictation alone could save the
old civilization. When he and the I
others awoks to the real peril from 1
their chess game OF boundaries, in 4
IDENTITIES, leagues Of nations versus
balances OF power. Il was too late. I
The league Of nations they suddenly 4
realized to be no more than an al I
lance OF four or five states againstt
q continent marching under the red 1
flag. For Lenine and Trotsky had /
played their game well. they had no 1
to make. and, while \
Paris had debated for months. Moscow
had been dynamo Of actions.
aAccOrdingIy, in April. 1919, By
previous arrangement with the
Moscow soviet government, Hun
gary and Austria went BOIsheVfk
and formed an offensive and de-
fensiye alliance with red Russia.
StIII In Paris they did not sees
and At the beginning OF June the
German peoples republic abdIcat-
ed power rather than sign the
peace treaty, and the Snnrfacfsf
party placed the country under he
Red Terror. Moscow, Budapest,
Vienna and Berlin were now act
ing together.
The Bolshevizing OF Germany nee
sssarily produced an immediate re-
percussion in the small states which
the allies had set up and tried to
bolster BY military force. Polish and
allied troops had been sent into Po-
and through Dantzig in April, but .
rising OF the Polish peasants, largely
3olsheTized by starvation and propa-
ganda, and the cutting off OF sup
plies for the allied army in Poland
led to the passing Of that country
nto the hands Of the soviets in a few
weeks. and the world revolt had swept
Testwards to the Rhine, where FOR
he rest Of the summer the zones Of
occupation controlled by British,
French and American troops held back
he devastating flood
Rumania had gone over to Leuine
n April. and the new JugO-Slav state.
IS well as Czecho-Slovakia. finding
themselves encompassed with ire
iistahle forces both military and