The Washington herald., 1920-01-30

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Quences. It should be remembered
that Lord Reading is financier be-,
fore he Is anything else and that
in Europe he is politically known
as Lloyd Georges closest man"
Uncle Sam may depend upon 1t,
that the Old World will use fair
means or foul means. natural meth
DDS or artificial methods. to repair
the crumbled or broken fences of
her finances. Americans who have
kept an ear to Europe's ground
have heard many a "frenzied f.
nance" scheme. There have even
been periodic whispers that the
allies could not pay their foreign
debts. and therefore would not
Scramble for a Throne.
In Hungary. the monarchists
have come back" as the recent
elections showed. and Old World
dynasties. appreciating the power
OF example" rejoice instinctively.
Premier Huzsar himself is reported
10 nave publicly announced that the
monarchy will be reestablished and
a new king chosen. when the ma
tlonal assembly meets in early
February.
But Hungarian republication
VIII not die quite as easily as the
premier pretends to imagine. There
are sure to be internal disorders,
whenever definite attempts are
made to bring a new kingdom into
oeing. However. such prospects
are not interfering with any for
eign candidates. for royal honors.
France would not be at all op-
poed to having "a French sea" in
Middle Europe, and she has a handy
shelf on which pretenders to her
own throne are kept. England has
swapped dynastic pawns before and
the Duke of Connaught has already
been mentioned for Hunga ) 5 royal
chess board. Italy of cou Sc hasn't
a purple ghost of a show, owing to
the traditional Austro-Italian feud.
but Germany undoubtedly will in
trigue for a = man favorite.
Hungarian .rsitimists ge..er~ lily
favor Prince Otto. the Oldest On
OF former Emperor Carl and Z
press Zita. This probably would
be also the Vatican's diplomatic So
luton OF the problem, but 1t is
too much of a mother to be II e.
diately willing to supply &c er
uneasy head" for a very dous. III
crown.
Threat of New Wars.
Premier Nitti has compromised on
the railroad strike and made new
concessions to the men. He hastened
to the move because the. Jugoslav
rejection of the allied ultimatum
has carried the Italo-Jugoslav con-
troversy to alarming proportions.
Between the lines of Italian edi-
torials. the threat of a new war 10
plainly read
The Southern Slavs. who have
long been playing President Wilson
against the Italians, are now play
ing him against the allies generally.
They denounced the Pact of Lon
don as a secret treaty and chal-
lenge Italy or the allies to enforce
it, Meanwhile. President Wilson is
said to have received another dip
lomatic S. o. S. from Jugoslavis.
Up in Baltic hives the war bee is
buzzing more fIercely and loudl ,
than ever before. Gen. Foch's inte'
tion to visit Warsaw is fraught will.
military possibilities. Trotsky is ap-
parentIy maneuvering for two drives
against Poland. One would take the
direction of Wilma and the other be
aimed through Carpathia and Slo-
vaki-Galicia- Should the present
drift of things go unchecked Polish
events will come to an explosive
head within two months or less.
Not only the Poles, but the Czecho-
Slovaks, and possibly the Germans.
would be the targets of the soviet's
new military plans. The brilliant
Brusiloff is said to have been forci-
bly, drafted to lead the new Red
army of several million men. He
was a former Kerensky commander,
and has an Old World reputation as
a great military strategist. How
ever. any grave military move on
the part of the Reds could not attain
full momentum before early spring.