Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-15
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.

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Daily News. Copyright, 1920.
PARIS, France, August 14.-Not only
has the soviet's victory over Poland
jeopardized the tranquility of the world,
but the key to the whole political and
| social situation in Europe today is Rus
| STA This is the paramount impression
! have formed in the course of three
month trip through Austria, CZecho-
slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Jugoslavia.
Bulgaria, Roumania. Turkey and Greece.
Until the bolshevist propaganda either
conquers or subsidies there can be no
social stability in this part Of the world,
and until Russia's future status and
political orientation are known there can
| be no political stability.
Disinterested observers everywhere
are now generally of the opinion that
bolshevism will fail In it's effort for
| universal revolution. 1t will either be
overthrown, internally within the next
few years or it will evolve toward mod
GRAFTON. But all agree that Russia. in
one form or another, will later resume
it's former position of importance in the
arena of world politics Absent from
Paris and silent in the recent peace set
Element. the Muscovite must one day be
heard.
Many Friends Politically.
Though there are now more or less
important communist parties in every
country, the only countries which Off
cially SympathiZe with Russia socially
are Austria and perhaps Czechoslovakia,
but politically Russia already has many
friends and, at least, one redoubtable
enemy. Some of these friendships will.
perhaps be short-lived. Germany and
nationalist Turkey have common in
terest with Russia just now to over
throw the peace terms. For the rest of
the world there is undoubtedly danger
in this combination, but both Germany
and Turkey may in the future find them
selves in the position of barring the way
to Russian expansion and in this event
the continuation of good relations would
be impossible.
Russia's real future and political
strength in Europe seems to me to re-
side in the pan-Slav movement which
has revived since the war and bids fair
to become a dominating faltor in old
world politics. This movement, it will be
recalled, is based on the esoteric prin-
ciple that each great race in turn must
come to dominate the world and that
the day of the Slavs is at hand. One
meets it first at Prague. The CZechs.
surrounded by antiphathetic G ermans and
Hungarians, have not only made
pact with their Jugoslav brothers to
the southwark. but they aspire to-
ward Russia-anN Russia. soviet or
toward the light. The Polish de-
bacle has finally given them a COM
mon frontier with Russia, which was
their dearest aim.
Look to Russia As Mother.
The Jugoslavs also look toward Rus
STA as the mystical mother of Slav-
dom. If the Bulgarians. as they
themselves want to do and as the
Serbs within a few years will doubt
less permit them to do, should join
Jugoslav confederation then Slav-
tuted Russia, will stretch two men
acing arms into central Europe, one
across the Balkan peninsula to the
Adriatic and the other along the
southern slope of the Carpathians into
the very heart of Germany.
The black sheep of the Slav family
is Poland, whose war against the
with something akin to horror by
the other Slavs. The Poles. however.
declare that they are not fighting
Russia but bolshevism, and profess
desire for the friendship of all real
Russians. If Polands existence is
now spared by the reds it's future
safety will require it to seek the
friendship either of Russia or Ger
many. I believe that it will ulti-
mately choose Russia, thus adding
ZU,UVU,VUU or SU,UUU,VUU 10 the SlaV
mass, which with 100,000,00O Rus
SLAMS, 100000 Czecho and perhaps
20, OOO, 900 Jugoslavs and Bulgars will
then total 150,000,O0O souls. This is
no mere fantasy. 1t is. perhaps, the
most vital thing in European politics
today. Statesmen may not talk about
it much. but that they are acting
upon it is indisputable.
Isolated in Sea OF S1avs.
Hungary and Rumania both feel
themselves to be foreign elements
isolated in a sea of Slavs. Much as
they now hate each other And bitter
as is the feeling in the Transylvanian
question. 1 regard an anti-Slav al
lance between them as not impos-
sible. Both are naturally friendly to
Poland in the war against the soviets.
Greece also is under a presentiment
of future danger from the Slavs. Not
only in Constantinople but along her
entire northern frontier she is ex-
changing warm pledges of friendship
with Rumania.
But the most redoubtable enemy of
Slavdom is Britain. For generations
Russia and Britain have been rivals
in Asia. Russia's collapse has en-
abled Britain to strengthen her inS
f1uence in Persia and Afghanistan
and to occupy Mesopotamia. Bri-
tain has adopted Greece and stretched