El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-13
France J7nites Catholics
For Breakup Of Germany
Bavaria and Hungary Ready to Restore Monarches for New
Deal IN Central Europe-Austia Sticks by Bavaria While
Belgium and Poland Complete the Great Combination
of Powe-Britain Strives to Balk France.
By EUGENE |. YOUNG

T big financial and Industrial interests
are 20 take over control OF the Hun
I Earian railroads for so years. restore
and extend them. She has received a
military mission. which is 10 re-equip
the Hungarian army on stated
basis OF 10000 men This force is
TO be armed and organized by the
French and TO be under French com
mand in certain contingencies
Finally Hungary has declared for the
monarchical system and negotiations
are under way TO get eL-emperor
Charles OF some other Hapsburg 10
take the throne
The Alliance with Belgium.
s. Completing the great plan is the
French military alliance with Bel
GUM. made against all the pressure
Britain could bring TO bear on her
little neighbor; and the French IN
Outstanding. II not alliance. with Po-
land BY the Belgian agreement, In
certain conditions, the army Of king
Albert viii pass under the control Of
French generals We have already
seen that the Poles are willing also
to turn 70 French leadership IN an
emergency. and a French military
mission remains with their forces.
The Belgian agreement has been kept
secret. in spite OF British insisteuce
that Il be filed with the league OF
the French seizure OF Frankfort last
spring gives a clue 10 what bearing
it has on the enforcement OF the
treaty with Germany.
s. Against these arrangements
Britain. Germany and non-Catholic
elements in Italy. together with the
Balkan and central European states
which have reason 20 fear the return
Of the Hapsburgs, are marshalIng
every power possible Britain's first
task IS TO put Germany on her feet,
IL she is to- have a really powerful
friend on the continent That Is the
reason for the insistence on fixation
OF the total amount Of reparations
and on modification or the peace
treaty, on which Paris and London
are now locked in a diplomatic
struggle Britain and italy are also
trying 70 strengthen the little en-
tente" OF Czeho-Slovakia. Rumania
and Jugo-Slavia by drawing IN Bull
garia and Greece as an offset %
Hungarian revival
Germans showing Alarm
The German press and publiclsts Of
all shades OF opinion have made no
bones OF their alarm over what is
coming II the French and Catholic
policies are not baked
''Uneasiness over French plans,
especially as regards the Ruhr, lies
The Berlin Deutsche Allgememe lei
tung. organ OF Hugo SHINES, the
great industrial magnate and power
behind the present government
Again II complains OF the French
refusal to fix the German indemnity
charging: "The Nationalists cry out
for the annexat ton OF the Saar and
other regions and for the dismem-
berment Of Germany. while French
economists pursue the aim OF laying
hands on upper Silesia. the Ruhr and
the Saar. Germany must be made
economically dependent on France.
the greatest number Of burdens must
be imposed and II these cannot be
borne, the lever must be applied al
the proper moment
DR. Walther Rathenau, the cleo
tricaI magnate. hluntly says Per
haps the near future viii see Ger
many SPLIT into three parts-the first
Bavaria which viii attach itself TO
what is left Of Austria; second the
Rhineland. which vii become a sec
ond Belgium: and finally the re-
masnder Of the empire. Then
the Rhineland will find Frances
offers advantageous.
The Taeglische Rundschau has car
rfed an exposure OF the alleged
French propaganda bureau in Munich,
which IS declared to be under the
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sums are said 20 have been used 70
impress on south German peasants
the danger Of bolshevism in Prussia,
while the bourEeosie are beguiled
with the idea that Bavaria can escape
some OF her reparations burdens and
get favors through French control Of
the Rhine navigation and industries.
Ideas Echoed in France.
Il might be possible TO dismiss
such charges with the old words,
German propaganda" but they can
be found duplicated in the press Of
an the countries Of Europe. and
plainly echoed in France.
We find the correspondent OF the
seni-official Paris Temps writing in
this strain from Munich: "The Ba-
varians delight in the idea OF the
accession Of Rupprecht. the legiti-
mate king. a modern prince, intelli-
gent and liberal" (This is the same
Rupprecht whose armies devastated
and despoiled northern France, de-
stroyed the coal mines at Lens and
sent French maidens from Lille 70
God knows what fate. Such is the
international politics which France,
seeking safety, has to playO
The Temps and other papers have
been emphasizing the idea that Ba-
varia should stick 10 her guns on the
proposition that the German Reich
must be made into a real federal sys-
TEN, which would give all parts OF It