The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
TO BAR GERMANY ON VSTULA AND DANUBE SAYS sNdONDs

the partition Of Csecho- -sloyakia, the
Austrian half falling to Germany,
~ the heir OF Austria. the Hunga-
rian going back to the Magyars.
But II the Hungarian consents to
q, new German alliance. he has
other ends beside the reclamation
Of HIS old Slav provinces on the
north. He IL equally interested In
regaining the lands which have
fallen to the Rumanian and to the
yugo-Siav. Here German cham
pionship of Magyar aspirations
would enlist Italian opposition,
since Italy has no desire to see an
Hungarian state. backed by German
strength. return TO the Adriatic or
reacquire Croatia and Slavonia, but
with the fate Of czecho- Siovakia,
Italy is not Interested.
So Tar Germany's program seems
fairly clear. Outside Of an effort to
reduce her reparatIons account. or
at least to prevent It's being in
creased above the present sum Of
ei1.5oo. 900. 900, Germany will seek
first OF all to regain. her old Polish
lands. She win do this by exploit
Ing the notorious British hostility
to Poland In the supreme council
and by taking. advantage of italian
bitterness toward France. She will
strive also after some sort of Rus
sian alliance. which will insure a
new partition.
MaGyars Possible Allies.
At the same time she will strive
for the admission of Austria to the
reich, which will represent a fur
tier step in the consolidation of
the German tribes. an extension of
the work of Bismarck and William
]. In pursuit of this objective, too,
there is the plain opportunity to
arrive at an understanding and
even an alliance with the Hunga-
rians. On the ruins of Poland and
czecho-Slovakia Germany may yet
erect stiil another German empire
dominating all of the middle Of Eu-
rope and through Hungary, ap-
preaching the lower Danube.
Balkan Chaos Remains.
And in the Balkans the old chaos
remains. The Serb and the Bulgar
still nourish their old animosities:
the Greek and the Bulglr remain
as they have always been. hope
lessiy divided. And even the Turk
seems to have survived the world
war to hold title to Constantinople
still, while in Asia Minor he has
made waste paper OF more than one
solumn document Of his Christian
enemies Thus. IL. half a century
from now. Germany, having alb
sorbed Austria and the old Austrian
half OF Czecho-Slovakia and made
alliance with the Hungarians,
should resume the march toward
the near east. she would encounter
no barrier. Two of the great po-
the German on the vistula and on
the Danube. have failed. The Paris
conference portioned an incomplete
Poland and SO far has merely per-
petuated the Balkan chaos.
Ambition Led Southwark.
Germany was led into the last
war because her ambition took her
southwark. but on her road she en-
countered Russia, the champion OF
the Serb. Before she could open
the road she had fIst TO dispose of
the Russian and his French ally.
In the battle she founi herself con-
fronted by too many enemies and
she succumbed In order to 60 east.
she felt that she must first 60 west.
and going west she enlisted first
Britain and then the United States.
As a result Of the war. however,
Russia Is removed from her path
way; one cannot conceive in any
future now calculable, that any
Russian state will mount guard