The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-12
RUSSIA IS FACTOR
TO BALKAN PEACE
Il STILL UNSOLVED
Slavic States and New Republic
Remain Unsettled During .
Soviet Experiment.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
Written Expressly for international
News Service.

10y DOhOl II houA oOaNs
Written Expressly for international
News Service.
BUDAPEST, Hungary. June LIT
becomes more and more evident that
there is no settlement possible in
Central Europe while Russia remains
an unknown quantity.
King Karl has departed from Hun
Cary, but the question of the restora-
tion OF the Hapsburgs is not settled
and In the. few weeks since his de-
parture the Hungarian government
has resigned, reconsidered ard resigned
again. determinations of the bitter
est kind-even going so far as to lead
In one case to personal duel-have
purified through the Gothic arches of
the most beautiful parliament build
ing in Europe, and the royalist ques-
ton has thrown together the strang-
est and most artificial alliances and
has postponed much Of the splendid
work OF economic reconstruction
which was under way when his
majesty appeared upon the scene.
Austria appears to be no nearer a
settlement of her difficulties: indeed
there Is a growing conviction that
completes half-heartedly with Danube
Federationisn. and the partition Of
Austria between neighboring states.
In Bavaria the royalist movement is
gathering its forces together.
JUGO-sLAvs IN TROUBLE.
Jugo-Slavia's unity is threatened by
iRaditch in Croatia. In Rumania the
land reform comes too late; the coun-
try-side is dissatisfied and turbulent,
and In spite of it's fine equipment the
army is not dependable. The negotia-
lions, so happily begun at Bruck be-
tween Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary.
have split on the rock of the ,Haps-
burg question, and the hoped for and
desperately essential economic CO.
operation has come to nothing
Looking at the surrounding coun-
try from Budapest one cannot find a
single tendency, or movement, or
policy to which one can pin ones
faith for reconstruction
mere are. to be sure, certain more
or less measurable movements. ten
dencies and policies. But the fate
OF every one of them depends upon
what Russia is going to do.
RUSSIA MAY BE SPLIT UP.
The other day 1 was talking with
Vladimir Malama, head of the Russian
committee in Budapest, which is rap
1diy becoming the largest center Of
Russian emigres in Europe. what
40 you think is going to happen in
Russian" / asked.
He replied by quoting Lenin. ut is
remarkable that Lenin's arch enemies
constantly quote him as their final
Authorlty.) Only two things are DOS
sible for Russia-bolshevim or car
ism"
Malama continued: .Of course Lenin
was speaking OF a united Russia-of
Great Russia. There is another pos
sibility-that Russia may split to
pieces into several states; some mon
arches, some republics. some COM
munist entities"
Now the point of this article is
this: That the realization of any one
of these possibilities, that bolsh evism
might make readjustments and con-
cessions to permit it to hold its own.
that the communist regime should be
Iolowed by monarchical reaction,
that Russia should split into several
states-will determine the fate of
central Europe. Should the monarchy
be restored in Russia a powerful inn
petus would be given for the return
of the Hohenzollerns and the Haps-
burgs- Should Russia split into pieces
the triumph would be for the "Green"
international of the peasants, whose
rise is the most significant single phe-
the continuance of a more or less Red
and united Russia would make any
permanent restoration of HohenzoI-
Terms and Hapsburgs impossible and
would also put check upon the &C
STIMULATING power Of the peasants.
To prophesy which OF those courses
events will take is the merest specu-
lation- Russia remains, as always,
the land of mystery. A Belfast linen
nj ri a
when Russia was furnishing 30 per
cent of the raw linen of the world no
firm ever knew at any time what the
crop had been.
LENIN MAKES CONCESSION.
Today one can find support for any
theory one may choose to advance in
regard to Russia. There are those who
say that Lenin has held Russia
through the most critical time; that
there are evidences that he is willing
to make concessions to private capital
and to affect other establishments In
order to make his socialist state work.
able In capitalist world; that the
trade agreements recently signed will
help him to restore health and order
TO Russia There are others, equally
well informed, who say that the trade
agreements will only help him to get
supplies for the red army; that he
cannot restore order in Russia, or
health, and that since he must feed
the people something he will feed
thenf victories and will make a drive
simultaneously through Poland and
Rumania at no distant date. That
thus at some frontier he will suffer an
overwhelming military defeat, with
the simultaneous and complete coll
fabse of bolshevism. And there are
others who affirm that the disintegra-
don of the soviet regime is already
Ear advanced and that at any time
parts OF the country are likely to
break away.
win in central Europe. Russia will
rettle the Hapsburg question, the land
question and the labor question. In
the meanwhile one can only consider
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