East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-28


THE Russian-German treaty which generally taken
to foreshadow a military alliance between those
countries is the subject OF very grave discussion IN
this country and abroad
The Literary Digest for April 20 gives this subject first
prominence with the following Introductory statement
coupled with comments from various papers:
Like lightning flash in the night the announcement
that Germany and Russia had signed treaty behind the
hacks Of the other powers at Genoa sudden revea
ton Of possibility that pubicsts have been discussing
ever since the Versailles treaty was signed The treaty
signed at Rapao on Easter Sunday by DR. Walter Rattle
na for Germany and George Tchitchern for Russia re-
establishes full diplomatic relations between the two
tries on equality basis land mutually cancels all war
claims as well claims arising from the naturalization
Of property Further the two governments undertake to
give to each other mutual assistance for the eviaton OF
their economic difficulties in the most benevolent spirit
This treaty may be abrogated at the demand of the allies
but is taken by many indicating an approach OF these
two powers to RussoGenan alliance that is bound to be
realized If not now then later If this means anything at
ALL excaims the Philadelphia Public Ledger it foreshad
ows new European lineup, with Russia and Germany
forming what may become military well as an indus
trial and political alience against the rest of the Old
World"
Why should the allies be disturbed asks Arthur Bris
bane in the New York American because Russia and Ger
many decide live up to that part of the Lords Prayer
lang to debts and trespasses But other commentators
in the MAN, do not the situation in quite so pious
light The danger to Western Europe is even greater than
high commissioner in the United States An Associated
Press dispatch from Paris quotes Mr. Casenave saying
further
Germany with This
mind the had The American
government and American public opinion ought TO see Inc ssne nee M S
these events but they do not now they will be dasreeab shocked by the
consqueneese
French and British delegates the Genoa correspondents
tell us regard the past as the frst step in RussoGer
man alliance" One British spokesman, read event so
far as to say that the signing of the separate treaty
challenge to the whole world" "The possibilities of Ger
,naRussan cooperation unlimited they stretch from
Vladivostok to the Rhine, cables Edwin L. James from
Genoa to the New York Times Mr. James sees in this
pact the final deathblow to Woodrow Wilson's dream
that the World War meant the end of the balance of pow
er and an alliance in brotherhood for the nations The
RussoGerman pact he adds "wl be offset by tighter
cooperation of England and France Two days after the
treaty was signed Paris dispatches reported German
shock troops in the Ruhr Valley and Russian Red ar
mics threatening the Polish and Roumanian frontiers
And in an Associated Press dispatch from London read
that Germany and Russia had already concluded "a secret
military agreement involving the mutual of soviet So
ders and officers and German officers and non-coms
Another Genoa dispatch quotes General Rcciott Garr
bald the last surviving son of the Italian patriot as say
ing:
this
oshevm was invented in Berlin when Germany wanted to punish tn
still controls boshesm which
Greenland hoping 10 succeed securing revenge for the defeat she suffer
er,nan troops being Russia while German arshps ar
built in swernd Holland and Sweden France Mr. Loy
check tho
destroying turn
which is their real and England
While admitting that "there is no economic peril to otl
er nations in the Russo German compact the New Yor
Tribune reminds us that it is nevertheless an alliance
hatreds and as such contains grave political peril" Co