New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-06

to upset the division of territories
made at Paris. Not improbably Greece
will be found joining in this associ-
alton, because the Greeks have to fear
the Bu.garians even more than the
Rumanians or the Jugo-Slavs, and, it
Will be recalled, Rumania, Serbia and
Greece made a similar bargain after
the Second Balkan War, which King
Constantine failed to observe, when
the Bulgarian attack upon Serbia in
1915 produced the crisis in the Near
East, which In turn led to the Salonica
expedition.
But Greece and Jugo-Slavia, in adj
dition to having a common interest in
the direction of Bulgaria, are equally
concerned in the matter of Albania
and find themselves similarly threat
ened by Italian ambitions, both in AL
bania and, for the Greeks, in all of the
Aegean, both in the islands and in
the Smyrna district Of Asia Minor. As
far back as the First Balkan War
Greece and Serbia, Bulgaria agreeing,
arranged to partition Albania, Serbia
taking the region north Of the Skumbi.
Greece the portion to the south of that
river The Conference of London NV
creating Albania as separate unit,
blocked that purpose and produced the
Second Balkan War, for Serbia, los
ing IN Albania. claimed greater re-
wards in Macedonia and Bulgaria re-
fused to concede these.
The announcement Of the formation
Of the Little Entente" has excited a.
good deal Of comment in Italy. For
many years there has been a real Ital-
ian apprehension of an ultimate extern
sion OF pan-Slavic state to the Adri-
attic and the union Of the Czecho-
Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs with their
great Russian brethren. But TODAY.
with Russia on fire, the Italian excite
ment rather suggests that the Italians
are turning the present DEVELOPMENT To
their own ends and using the new al
nance as an argument for greater pro-
lection along the eastern shore of the
Adriatic.
A war between the Serbs and the AL
banians Is now going forward and in
this the Serbs quite correctly see the
Italian hand. An outbreak of hostili-
ties between the Serbs-that Is, the
Jugo-S|avs-and the Italians over
tlume is always possible. Hungary
would be glad to join in such an at
tack hoping to regain her lost prov
inces. But Rumania and Czecho-
Slovakia, neither Of whom cares about
the Italian phase Of this debate, would
be menaced by any expansion of Hun
gary. Bulgaria would welcome such an
opportunity, but Rumania as we'll ma
Greece would be threatened by any
Bulgarian aggrandizemenc.
The ideal development would be an
alliance between the three states of
the Little Entente" and Greece for
mutual protection, not alone against
Austria and Hungary, but against all
outsiders aeeking to disturb the stu.
alton in the southeast Of Europe. Such
an alliance, too, would, in course Of
time. inevitably draw to it the Poles.
who share with the Rumaniana enc
grave danger which must come from
Russia, whether Red or White, Ru-
mania having TO fear for Bessarabia.
Poland for her very independence.
Moreover. to add to- the eompl.cx-
tions, while Rumani& and Jugo- Slavia
have only the remetest eanesrm about
Germany, Poland aud Cxecho. slovskia
are equally targets Of German hatred.
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