The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-07-03
Great Powers No Longer
Rule Europe, Says Simonds
Failure of Lloyd George to Seek Favor of
Little Entente Assured His Failure at
Genoa, He Declares.

them despite the presence in the
province of Latin majority.
Accordingly Rumania naturally
turns to Poland for an agreement.
for joint action in case Russia
attacks either and Poland and Ru-
mania have made pretty definite
military agreements covering the
whole of their eastern frontiers. At
the same time Rumania turns west
ward to find aid against any Hun
garian attack and she finds il quite
naturally in Belgrade and in Prague,
because both Jugo-Slavia. and
Czecho- Slovakia have also an
nexed Hungarian lands, which. as in
the case of the Rumanian annexa-
tions, are inhabited by a majority
of their own nationals.
Complex sttuation.
I dwelt upon the situation Of
JugoSlavia a week ago so fully
that l shall not return to that now,
beyond pointing out that the South
ern States having acquired indepen-
dence. and federation in the new
Jugo-Slav state. by the Paris set
Element, they are naturally COM
mitted to the maintenance of the
integrity OF these treaties. on this
ground finding themselves in full
accsSd with both the Poles and the
Rumanians. Havins; considerable
minorities of several races, although
nothing like as considerable a per-
centage as either Poland or Ru-
mania, the Southern Slavs also hold
with these two states on this is
sue, the Importance of which / will
discuss in a minute.
As to Czecho-Slovakia, her situa-
ton is the most complex of all. She
has to fear, like Jugo-Slavia and
Rumania, a new outbreak of Mag
var Imperialism. therefore she nat
urally marches with her neighbors
on this matter. She has always to
fear Germany. because she has with
in her own frontier more than
100000 of German speaking Aus
TRANS and. II Austria ever enters the
German Reich, Czecho- Slovakla
will be almost surrounded by Ger
man territory and threatened with
almost inevitable absorption. There
fore. she finds herself instantly in
accord with Poland in the German
problem. And she stands with all
her associates in the determination
to preserve intact the treaties made
at Paris. which assure her existence
after three centuries OF subsection
to an Austro-German oppression.
Important Influence.
On the other hand. Czecho- Slo-
vakia is strongly Russophile as Is
Jugo-Slavia to somewhat lesser
extent. There is then a real diff
ference in situation as between
Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo -Slayia on
the one hand and Rumania and Po-
land on the other. This difference,
In so far as the association be-
tween the four nations Is preserved
must tend to moderate the Polish
Rumanian policy toward Russia and
exercised an importance influence at
Genoa
Turning now from the separate to
the collective policies of the Poles
and the nations of the Little En-
tente, what are they? First of all
1t will be seen that every one of
these states has an obvious determi-
nation to maintain those treaties
made at Paris which gave them life
or transformed their condition
enormously. Any policy which
undertakes to modify the territorial
decisions of Paris must then en-
counter at once the unanimous hos
tility of all four.
Now as to Russia: There are in
Europe two policies with regard to
Russia, the British, or perhaps more
exactly that of Lloyd George, which
would make any concession to re-
store commercial relations with the
Russian state and would not stick
at recognizing the Soviet regime
without any guarantees whatsoever
of subsequent good behavior, which
means in fact, observing interna-
tional obligations and respecting
the rights and liberties of adjoining
states.
second Policy.
There is second policy which is
held by France to be the correct
course and in this policy the United
States tacitly associates itself. This
policy would treat the Soviet
regime as an enemy until demon
strated the contrary by making all
necessary concessions to western
capitalistic principles and in reality
regards the Soviet regime itself as
menace which will disappear IL
not encouraged by external recog-
milton.
Now midway between these two
extremes stands the policy of the
Little Entente and Poland. which
was ably presented at Genoa by NJ.
Benes. Czcheo-Slovakian premier.
also summed up this middle ground
in a recent speech to the Czeoho-
Slovak parliament as follows:
AT Genoa we have advocated
middle ground. We have declared
for the resumption of relations: for
permanent contact; for an ar
rangement of progressive coilabora-
ton. particularly commercial; for
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