The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-24
European Political Situation
IsaS Changed Vastly.
RussO-German Alliance Looked
as a Sure Thing Now.
ITALY FAVORS GERMANY, TOO?
EngIand's Friendly Attitude Is
Seconded by the Italians.
Diplomacy of Russians at The
Hague Won Victory.

London, July ga Rome dispatch
to the Central News says that Deputy
Benito Mussolini, leader of the Fas-
cisti. has received invitations to es-
tabIish branch Fascist organizations
abroad.
He is now en- route to Germany and
before leaving said the disarming of
the Fasciti was at this moment I'M
thinkable because of the continued
menace from communist and socialist
societies.
Berlin, July 24.-Europe stands to-
day on the threshold of a thoro re-
vamping of its international group
ings, in the opinion of keen students
of craftsmanship. Any day, they pre-
dicted, might bring a crumbling of
present alliances which will have be-
come obsolete since the armistice-
Such a. collapse naturally will be fol-
lowed by new lineups with former
bitter enemies standing shoulder to
shoulder. War and revolution have
altered both the political viewpoints
and the economic aspects of half q
dozen European nations.
Now Are Sympathetic.
Italy, the foe of Germany in the
world war, now is supporting Great
Britain in a sympathetic attitude
towards Germany This is not from
any friendship but from a realization
that the complete collapse of Ger
many would drag other European ma
lions with her.
1t is considered certain that one of
the first realignments will be a Russo
German alliance, taking in the whole
of central Europe and stretching
from France to the Pacific coast. Ger
man officials declare that the isola-
ton of Germany, Austria and Russia
with their population of nearly AGO.
100000 souls, makes such an alliance
necessary.
Every event of the past few weeks
has served to forge fresh links in the
chain of common grievances between
Germany and Russia. Two events or
the week that are expected to have
the most important bearing upon the
shaping of the immediate political fu-
ture are the collapse of the interna-
tional conference on reconstruction or
Russia at The Hague and the assump-
ton of the financial control of Ger
many by the allies.
Hope for Diplomatic Victory.
One underlying motive of Russian
diplomacy at The Hague was to wreck
the entente. but in this the Russians
failed. Russian statesmen believe
however, that they can still hope for
such a diplomatic victory.
The Immediate future will see two
great history making dramas:
l. n SlEuSEle LOT ENuSSAdh Oll SOlA-
cessions, which, already is in full
swing.
2 A struggle to Keep the German
eagle, now lame and tattered, from
fluttering eastward to settle upon the
bosom of the battered and starving
Russian bear.
No Open Propaganda.
The soviet since the Genoa confer
ence. has painstakingly refrained from
all open provocatory propaganda. The
Bolshevik leaders themselves know
best the depth of anti-communism
among many circles of German popu-
lation, especially the Bavarians. Mos
COW is working on the theory that this
anita gonism cannot be turned into
friendship over night.
1t is now an established fact that
there was no military clause, either
open or secret, in the Rapallo CRusso-
Germany treaty signed during the
Genoa conference.
However, those who favor this
fierce Russo-G erman friendship" be-
lieve there will be an upheava1 in
Europe within the next six months.