Evening star., 1920-12-19
LONG STEP is TAKEN
TO PRESERVE PEACE
Admittance of Austria and Bulgaria to
/ League Has Advantages to Allies as
Well as Former Enemies.

only Is Bulgaria advancing faster
commercially than any other OF the
Balkan countries. but Bulgaria un-
doubtedly is throwing the weight OF
her tnf1pence toward allied policies
inasmuch as the peasant government
realizes that this is the only way
by which the tremendous financial
burdens imposed by the allies ever
can be alleviated.
The allied reparations commission
has demanded Of Bulgaria 16o. 100000
francs year. or q total OF ABOUT
$500. 100000 in ninety-seven years AT
interest OF Per cent: Bulsa.is' ..s =, 9
TYPICAL agricultural country, with. AZ
present, limited outlets to the world.
never can expect to carry the burden
Of this tremendous sum unless the
allies show some leniency. and only
through utmost friendship will the
ernment. as a consequence. applied
for admission to the league and is en-
deavoring to do its utmost to show
good faith in the Tremendously dif-
fieult process of after the war re-
construction along the lines laid down
Still Desire Lost Lands.
It must not be taken for granted
that Bulgarians forsake their desire
of regaining the lower DobrudJa.
Macedonia and Thrace as well as sec
tions awarded to Jugoslavia. The Bull
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very keenly, particularly the regions
Of Macedonia. but instead OF planning
to instigate wars to gain territoriaI
adjustments, such as King Ferdinand
ushered in in 1912. Bulgaria hopes
through close cooperation with other
of the Balkan countries to achieve
through friendship that which was
lost through the aggressive. COM
bative influences Of Ferdinand.
Bulgaria has proposed to Jugoslavfa
a &1 a. A~h
the Adriatic to the Black sea- and be
composed of Slavic peoples. The
Serbs hate the Bulgars, and the Bull
gars, it may be said. likewise despise
the Serbs, but through racial simtlart-
ties and the necessity Of effecting
petuate commercial and economic life
1t Is realized, even in Belgrade, that
the proposals Of Bulgaria have some
merit. and as time goes on 1t would
Jugoslavia relent and enter into some
sort Of an arrangement with neigh
bors to the east, particularly II the
latter continue to show the good
faith they have demonstrated in the
past eighteen months.
The march Of history invariably has
thrown the Slavs of the Balkan penin-
sula and the Greeks against one an
other. Today the bitterest feeling ex-
lists between the Greeks and the Bull
gars and particularly. since the Greeks
have taken from Bulgaria the much
ALA on the Aegean sea. The Bulears
insist that there are millions Of Bulgars
to tens Of thousands Of Greeks in Mace
donia. As Jugoslavia has watched the
advance Of Greece to the south with
some show Of distrust, the union Of Bul-
to both eventually. particu-
larry in case Greece's aspirations prove
too Objectionable.
Would Control Politics.
With a united Jugoslayia and Bull
garfa there is little question that these
two countries would control the poll
tics Of the Balkans. But in all steps
toward advance, particularly until the
Slavic motherland Russia is restored to
ably Italy, will have far reaching say in
what alfgnments are made. 1t win be
much easier for the allies to guide Bull
garfa's course and counsel prudence at
critical times If Bulgaria is within the
league. And with Bulgaria in working
agreement with former enemy states the 1
toward solidification of, all
countries, politically at
least will grow apace. y,-.~.--.
Through association with allied ma
tions Bulgaria likewise will be thrown
in closer touch with Rumantay and the
cause in restorative prncesses
may so remove former hatredS that
these countries win work side and side
in the little entente and agree among
themselves in regard to the pesplexing
territorial questions OF the lower Dob
rudja. II
Bulgaria needs the allies, particular
ly those against whom she fought in
the war; It Is no stretch Of imagina-
ton to assume that the allies need Bull
~arsa, for without her there must con-
tinue political uncertainty in eastern
Europe. -
II the spirit Of coordination and CO.
operation is instflIed. and old antipathies
can be beaten down by the club OF COM
mon understanding the Balkans may no
longer continue to be Europe's poten-
tial storm center. but a progressive
block of nations which. as stated last
Sunday, must always be considered in
the adjustment Of all European reaa-
tionships. 4