East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-01-01
EUROPEAN PLAYGROUND
NOW PLOTTING GROUND
BY HENRY WOOD.
united Press Staff corespondcnt.j

Nll BER,f1c, Switzerland tRy matL)
FROM THE Playground OF Europe
HIiof before the war Switzerland has
become THE Plotting Ground OF Eu.
rope" OF after the war.
III Ana all this plotting may now be
summarized In one general end OF
III ihe Constitution OF a Danubian Con-
III federation"
10 the credit OF the Swiss ii must be
s"'u That they resent In the extreme
degree the abuse that IL now being
made OF their country and their hos
J pitality by the exiled rulers and states
a men Of erstwhile empires and states
but they are as helpless in the,rnatter
sI as they are innocent. While they
cannot keep their little country from
4 peinS converted into an incubator, |
4 however they can at least try TO keep |
the plots being brooded therein from
actually Matching. and the Swiss Sc
Il cret service together with its gend-
armes, its policemen, its detectives
and its public officials generally are
putting in quite few sIeepless nights
to this end.
In fact there Is every reason to pre-
sumo that they are losing more sleep
trying to keep the plots from hatch
ing than the plotters are in trying to
make them hatch. Exiled statesmen
and rulers have to keep busy; plot
ting Is life itself to ex-statesmen and
ex-d<plomats and II is entirely pos
sibie that Switzerland is taking the
plotting that is going on within her
borders about a hundred times more
Seflousiy than are the plotters them
selves. In any event both are keep
ing busy.
One Great Scheme.
NOW that the gradual readjustment
or Europe has left no doubts in the
minds of certain exiled rulers like ex-
king Constantine of Greece and some
or the former rulers of German states
Df the hopelessness of their causes. all
of the plotting in Switzerland has
come slowly to center on one great
'cheme. scheme that is not only
considered possible but that is CON
idered by many of the greatest minds
ma authorities Of Europe as being
bsolutely imperative and inevitable
This is the constitution of Danu-
ian Federation TO replace the old
'ual Monarchy. and which according
its hackers, is the only thing that
an insure the life of the half dozen or
lore states into which the old Austri-
n Hungarian monarchy has been di-
ded
Whether this Danublan Federation
as its center north OF the Danube
ith what is left of Hungary ana Aus
la as a basis or whether IT has lis
'n'er south OF the Danube with Ser
a and Rnmania PLAYING the leading
lie: whether 1t he monorchial or re-
II hcan in form. together with half
dozen other possibilities or ramlfica-
MS. are generally considered uniin-
rant. an that is regarded as vital
q irrpe~ tive is that such a confed- -
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r,t,,,, a., 49,, ne, the
si5 csmcD L1ok Asknncc a,
I ne new states like Poland and
eeho-sloVakia figure they can go it ,', ,',an
me. They don't know as matter 10
fact because they have not tried
/, and they are determined TO try, S pas'
the political and economical states Ian
n of Europe are loking mighy etui
,ance. Finally Serbia and Ruman- are
which have already demonstrated ~ ~ az
ir ability to go it alone will. it is " ars
lerally conceded with their in iu'ui
ased territory. ana ,,an,,Ia,ian 80 rean
rces-and war debts-be able to
away with IL, and yet IL is insisted n vi
y would be able to do it much bet &
in confederae existence than
ne.
iungaria and German Austria as
Y VIII exist when the peace confer
c finishes its work will be dead LO
es--their own people and stats of ne
| admit that. Poland and Czecho- terda
fakia are merlV gnmblinn bets Rut Edwa