The New York herald., 1921-06-19
By FRANK H. SIMONDS.

TN HE closing days of the current month
are marked by an anniversary of
twofold significance. On June 2S,
1914. the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and
his consort were slain in Serajevo On the
same day five years later the German rep
resentatives signed in the Hall of Mirrors at
Versailles that treaty which officially marked
the close of the German phase of the world
war. Two years have passed since the lat
ter event, and as new anniversary ap-
proaches it seems fitting time TO review
in some detail the history of what may well
be regarded as the final phase of the latest
Of European settlements
on June 2s, when the Germans signed, the
document which received their unwilling
signatures did little more than sketch the
bases of the ,eal settlement. The frontiers
of Germany were fixed, east and west, north
and south. Military terms were laid down
10 carry out the disarmament of the German
military establishment and regulate it's
future strength. The demitarization of the
Rhine and the neutralizing of the left bank
were provided for But beyond these major
conditions all was left incomplete and most
incomplete of all were the provisions made
for the discharge by Germany of the great
Aside from the German phase, moreover
Europe was left in chaos. On June 2S
eastern frontier had been fixed for Poland
or for Rumania, order in the west melted
into anarchy and chaos in the east with no
determined boundaries The middle of Eu-
rope hopeless confusion of rival states,
fragments of the recently destroyed Haps-
burg Empire. The Balkans were in their
chronic state of unrest. intensified by nearly
seven years of almost uninterrupted fight
ing. Italy and the southern Slavs were at
daggers drawn at the head of the Adriatic.
Rumania and Hungary were on the verge of
war along the Thciss. Italy and Greece
quarrellng in the Aegean and in
Albania.
Two Years Ago BoIshevism
Was the Bugbear of the World
over the whole world at this same date
hung the shadow of Russia. Bolshevism had
been the nightmare of the Paris Conference;
panic after panic had assaied the Paris
gatherings as news flowed from the east
which seemed to forecast the arrival of the
Reds, already come to Budapest. in Berlin.
in Bucharest, in Warsaw. Nor the ap-
prehension to Germany materially less.
The Versailles Treaty had been drafted by
those on whom the menace of Germany still
weighed heavily, and if Paris dreaded new
extension of Russian revolution it feared
almost as acutely some new and terrible
outbreak in Germany, which might recall
the armies to the battlefield and challenge
the results of the armistice OF Rethondes.
Now, two years after, when one comes to
reconstruct, even to slight degree the
emotions and the conditions of 1919. it be-
comes clear what an enormous step has
been taken toward settlement. If Germany
remains and must in the nature of things
continue to remain problem and a menace,
it is no longer possible for reasonable men
and women to look for an immediate German
uprising a return of the Kaiser or of the
military leaders and renewal of the war.
On the German side we can now safely count
rpon a span of years in which the world
will be safe from any German design.
Nor is it less clear that Bolshevisp,
anarchy, revolution in Germany has become
remote possibility. Order of sort has
emerged from the chaos which followed the
collapse of November 1918 and led to the
revolutions of the following year. Germany
has gone back to work. The consequences
of defeat abroad and domestic uprising at
home have not been entirely dissipated, can
hardly be eliminated for decades to come.
but the primary peril. the prospect of Red
Germany associated with a Red Russia. has
vanished.
Threat of Red Germany