Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-25
ALLIANCE
TO END PEACE OF PARIS
Mr.. Simonds Thinks Situation in Europe
REEVES Ambitions of the
Germans.

under German dominatio which WAS
always In the German mind from the
beginning. The design was to con-
tlnue and increase the servitude or
the Slav races of the east and south
TO the German and Hungarian minori-
ties occupy Poland and administer
the Baltic provinces.
NO such comprehensive or well rea-
soned policy marked allied councils.
The wholly vague formula of lib
{ Grating enslaved races. with very lit
lie regard for historic. strategic or
economic considerations. served for
the opponents of Germany during
the long years when they were stead
lily forced to contemplate the posi-
bility of losing the war outright, and
the swiftness of the decision. in the
end. surprised them without a states
! manlike solution.
The result has been that the Paris
conference has proven wholly incapa-
BILE Of creating an order or system
on the ruins of a system. undeniablN
, , wrecked by the war. So far tn"
British are concerned. they have ef
fectively disposed of the German
! challenge ON the water. both from
the naval and the commercial sides.
The German war feet and the Ger
man merchant marine have disap-
peared. on the commercial and CO.
lonial sides the victory has been more
complete than those won over Spain.
Holland or France in past centuries.
Paid Price OF Victory.
AS to the French. they have re
gained Alsace Lorraine; temporarily.
| at least. escaped from the practice
| terroriZaticn and paralysis of their
! national life by German menace; they
| have better military frontiers. dis
armed Germany before them; they oc-
cupy the Rhine for the present AND
the coal regions of the Sarre may con-
\ fa tN-a IN in No
| while for fifteen years at least any
German attack will begin far within
German territories and encounter the
| Rhine as a barrier. Bv contrast both
the French and the British have paid
/ terrible price for victory. the French
| vastly in excess of the British. and
! both will have a long struggle to re-
gain national health.
| Italy, or her side. has regained her
unGedeemed territory. established her
| sf at last on the crests of the Alps
at the Bremen Pass and achieved.
with allied aid. the destruction Of her
| former Austrian oppressor. She. like
France and Britain. has acquired GER
tain colonial lands. but wholly infe-
rior even to those gained by France
She has, moreover. Quarreled with her
| French, British and American allies
or associates. with the Jugoslavs and
| with the Greeks. while her effort to
| occupy a. portion of Asia Minor has
brought her into conflict with the
Turks and her mandate for Albania
promises future expensive military
J operations.
Alliance Has Not Arrived.
The significant fact is that the nat
ural alliance between Britain. France
and Italy. the logical successor of the
old triple entente. which might
guarantee the peace of Paris. has not
| yet arrived, NAV not arrive, as a con
n n 1fy1no inf
Franco British policies. while the
presence of the United States as a
| guafantor of such an alliance. that is
of the situation created by the peace
Of Paris. is now hardly to be ex-
pected.
/ We have failed and permanently
alienated 125.ooo.ooo Russians. who
are today moving more and more
| clearly toward temporary associa- =
ton with 100000 Germans. who re-
who hate us and our ideas with =
hatred which is no longer to be mis-
taken. And in this Russo-German sea
of hostile millions the little SIav and
Latin states we have fashioned in the
east and south are chips. They could
vast armies to them now. once Rus
STA begins in earnest, or whenever
Germany resumes.
| Is it conceivable that the Slav and
the Teuton will fight? In such tight
there would be salvation for the rest
of the world. No, the thing seems
| fairly clear. in the new Europe. which
begins with the present month. an
alliance between the Slav and the
Teuton to overthrow the settlement
of the peace Of Paris is almost in
| evitable.
Will Cherish Old Ambitions.
This is not to say that German
cnrin
a new German war arrive this year
or next. What il does aim to assert
is that the present conditions IN
Europe hold out SO much hope to the
old ambitions. that he will not now
lay them aside. rather he viii cher-
ish them and await the hour when
they can be realized
He is powerless now. but his con
uuerors have totally failed to close
his pathway. their hour is passing;
| their system is already threatened
| by deadly attack from Russia. their
4 alliance is crumbling. America rs
gone. Italy patiently bitter and re
| ertions in all her far-fiung empire
from ireland to India. France. vic
torious. is almost bled white. The
little races. newly liberated, hate each
other more than their old oppressors
In sum the peace of Versailles, like
the historic settlements Of the past.
only marks the end of one world
wide struggle to usher in the first act
of another In 1914 we. the western
nations. had only one foe. and that
was Germanism: today we have the
old foe but We have in addition an
other at least equally deadly. name
~. bolshevism. Nor is it inconceivs-
BILE that Germany. herself. although
losing the recent war. has opened
breach through which the new en-
envy may yet penetrate.
tCopyri yhtcd. 1920. by the Mcclure Newspaper
l Syn6icate.)