Evening star., 1920-06-13
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MAY MENACE AMERICA
Rivalries and Disputes Throughout Europe
Analysed by Mr.. Simonds-Review :
of Struggles in Past Years. s

and Italy But the chief Hungarian.
quarrel after all is with Rumanians.
who have taken Transatlantic and
most of the Banat. thus dcpriving the
Magyars of AT least a third of their
territory and some of their richest
districts. In a word Hungary has
question with each of her neigh
borS. t3''aI
Nor is Lugoslavia much poorer in
quarrels. The Fiume dispute has al
ready filled the world with its echoes
but it is only detail in the far larg-
er question of the Adriatic. for the
southern Slays claim Trieste as wPl
Fiume. and hope to dominate the
east coast of the Adriatic from Tho
lsonzo to the Drina. With the -RuF.
manians the Jugosiavs have bitter
feud over the southwest corner Of th.d
Banat. assigned to the Slavs at Paris.
This dispute is almost certain to lead
to hostilities sooner or later. With
Albania the Slays are at odds over s.
Scutari and the region about the
Drina. the natural outlet of southern
Serbia. but region in which theic
population is entirely Albanian. OF.
all the disputes which affect the
southern Slavs. however that with
the Bulgarans is the most acute. II
has already led to two bloody wars
within the last eight years. Today
the Serbs hold all of Macedonia; they
! even increased Their boundaries arr
! bulgarian expense in the recent Paris
l
For thousand years this rivalry has,
survived all tine changes incident to
/ the Turkish incursion.
Rumania Il Victor. h
Rumania is for the moment the vic-s.s
/ tor in all of her uuarrels She has
! taken Pennsylvania and most of the7'
! Banat from Hungary the Rukovinase
from Austria. Bessarabia from Russia
the southern Dobrudja from Bulgaria,
only in the Banat has she been obliced; :
to concede little to the Serb. But
/ each OF her gains carries with il am
/ inheritance of hatred. With Hungary
there can be no real peace for a gem
| GRAFTON a least. that is until Hungary >
accepts the new settlement: with Rus, 1.
STA there is always the possibility OF
| trouble. if a strong government event.
ually appears and Russian policy seeks;
the restoration of Russian rule in all
the marches torn away from il dur
! ing the past FIVE years. Bulgaria is
as ready now as four years ago to at
| tack Rumana. if there is any promise =
! of regaining the Dobrudja. Evene If
| Ukrainia finally obtains independence
! from Russia. there is the possibility
of dispute between the Ukraine and,
! Rumana over the portions OF the
| Bukovina in which the Ruthenian ele-'t
| ment predominates. ~r
/ Bulgaria. too. is surrounded by
/ hatreds. all of which are returned
with interest. Bulgaria. however. is
in position which is just the reverse
of that of Ruma MIA Her foes have been
successful on all sides. She has lost
not only all of Macedonia to Serbia.
but also frontier strips which We're
hers before the first Balkan war She
has lost the southern Dobrudja 10
Rumania. She is losing all her hopes
in Thrace. as the Greeks advance to
take over Adrianople. which was Bull
garian for few months after the
first Balkan war. All the dreams o.
the greater Bulgaria, cherished for
SO many decades. greater Bulgaria
extending from the Adriatic to the
Black sea and from the Danube to the
Aegean. including Albania. Thrace.
Macedonia. with Monastir. Saloniki
and ,Adrianople. have turned to dust
and ashes. But Bulgaria has not ac-
cepted the recent decision as final.
Lastly there is Greece. fortunate in
. the fact that three of her European
frontiers are maritime. Only on the
north does Greece touch her European
i neighborS directly. Over nearly hair
of this northern boundary. too. the
Greeks and Serbians join. and these
two. Balkan peoples are in the novel
situation of having no question" at
issue, indeed they are to a certain ex-
tent at least actual allies. But for
the rest Greece is in active dispute
with Bulgaria over Thrace. dispute
which goes back to the era of the
Byzantine empire and has been set
tied both to suit the Bulgar and the
Greek many times in this long stretch
of centuries. In addition. Greece has
"a full-sized dispute with Albania over
northern Epirus.
Such briefly is the geography OF
anarchy which extends from the Ger
man frontier to the Aegean sea. r.
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