Evening star., 1920-04-04

general strike. with a view to further increas-
Every indication would to be that the
coming week should bring an interesting
vital issue of class struggle. which precipi-
tated tate by the short-lived Kapp coupe, has
every degree of Importance.
1t should be borne in mind, however that
the unrest IN Germany. prominently played
up in the news columns of the American press.
is but one of many extraordinary manifesto
tions of the troublous times through which
the world is today passing Small wonder
that students of the trend in the worlds social
DEVELOPMENTS are today anxiously asking
another attempt at world revolution?' Whether
or not the theory that the multiform dsor-
separate outbreak is but link in the chain
Lenin would forge with which to shackle
curate one. is matter which only the future
can disclose. Yet Jim and Jane. seated Of
paper in the peace and security of the Amer
lean capital. cannot but contemplate with
sicken Europe.
a casual survey of Denmark. Holland. Ger
each involved by the contagion with govern
ments everywhere resting more upon force
been discussed. From Denmark came the cry
Of Long live the republic" when the king
eral strhe as prelminary step to the aims
of the socialist From France comes word
risings to be launched upon May l. Italy
tinues to be the scene of factory sovets and
using machine guns have killed scores in up
holding their oath of allegiance. Ireland. Hol-
land and Poland are racked from within and
an increasing nationalist agitation in India
and Egypt is additional cause for British con-
Germ A message from Russian bolshevists to
the American 1. w. w. has been intercepted
in transmission and from it we learn of Lenins
purpose to involve this country in the crisis.
To some the theory that the condition of
European unrest is but a phase Of the fear
To others the Significance of the gradually
increasing gravity of the situation has an
must become apparent that policy whereby
the United States remains isolated in these
tinue to be either wise indeed a pos
sible
g The attitude Of France in regard to the re-
quest of Germany for a relaxing Of certain
terms of the treaty of Versailles is not par
ticularly difficult one to understand The
truth of the matter is that France has for
time been steadily drifting toward iso-
lation. The failure of the United States to
ratfy the treaty of Versailles and to enter
into the league of nations has materially and
adversely affected the chances of a realization
of the British -French-American defensive al
lance against Germany. Italian sympathy. to
such extent it existed, has be en- alien
ated from France by her support of President
Wilson's Fiume policy. Great Britain has
evidenced a tendency to follow continental
policy of her own.
It was with view to precisely such course
of events that the French delegation to the
peace conference strove throughout the de-
liberation of that body to make the actual
terms of the treaty as effective an agent
mischief mil R as might be. through either native
caution a greater foresight as to what the
future would bring forth than was possessed
hyf he conference
French delegates steadily declined to place
all of their eggs in the basket labeled League
of Nations"
1t is the treaty itself which France primarily
depends today. And. this being the case.
Millerand has taken firm stand against any
modification of the pact. and has materially
gained in strength in the eyes of his own
people as result The army. which had been
allowed to disintegrate after the armistice.
has been reorganized. France, old in the