Evening star., 1922-12-01

strange anlalgamation of peoples
there emerged Czechoslovakia and
JugOslavia. Poland was reborn. Tur-
key and Bulgaria had gone down in
defeat. Article so Of the treaty of
Versailles forbade Germany to REIN
force herself by drawing on Austria
Germany had thus considerably di
minished and isolated. Young races.
full of ardent vitality, acted as scnti-
nels on her frontiers. The triple al
lance had seen it's day. Mitteleuropa
had vanished.
Confronted by this bankruptcy and
humiliation and displaying a daring
and effrontery which might we'll
serve as lesson to her conquerors,
Germany, without despairing a single
Isn't domination of formerly. Perhaps
she didn't rerommence her naval ac
tivity. The building and arming of a
fleet does not lend itself to camou-
f1age and conCealment. For Germany
to have laid down cruisers and sub
marines she would have had to do so
under the very noses of England and
America. And neither the former nor
the latter was inclined to allow the
empire of the seas. placed in their
hands by Scapa and Washington, to
slip from them.
Army Came to Life Again.
But II was not the same story with
land armament and power. The
treaty of Versailles obliged Germany:
% To deliver up her war material
by March 10. 1920.
(2) To reduce her army to 100000
men by April 10. 1920. and to have
but 100000 men under arms by June
10 of that year. Germany had no
other idea save to gain time and to
escape executing the treaty. From
the beginning Of 1920 she asked for
postponements. AS the navy was not
concerned. she was accorded them.
1920. Paris tJanuary. 1920. London
(May. 1920. Paris august, 1920.
were but stages on the road to Ger
man recovery. No sanctions were
taken. There was no attempt to hold
her to account.
The three clauses of May, March.
April and June. 1920, were simly al
lowed to go Icy entirely unexecuted.
One day Duisburg, Ruhrort, Dussel-
dorf and even Frankfort were occu-
pied on the impulse. We left the next
day without having obtained any
thing. The Germany army of war
may have vanished. But we saw it
the appellations of reichswehr.
Sicherheitspolizei, einwohnerwehr and
nothilfe. We watched formations of
police springing into being with ma
chine guns, canuons and aeroplanes.
We are in 1922.
Military Germany Today.
German electives exceed those laid
down i'll the treaty. Germany main
tains her officers of the reserve. her
recruiting bureaus. Her generals go
from town to town thrilling weak
Gus applause. that Germany was not
vanquished by arms. The lisarma-
ment in war material remains sus-
pended. The treaty accorded Ger
many 2ss guns. In July. 1920. she
still possessed more than $4,000. Ger
ton depots. In the universities there
is just one cry of furious hate against
France. In April this year a big
munlt1on dump blew up at Gleiwitz
Rapallo (April. 1929 opens an i'm
mense field for German projects.
The two new governments" says
article 5. agree to aid each other
reciprocally and in the most cordial
manner in order to alleviate their
economic difficulties
Economic difficulties? No one is
deceived. Germany's notion is to
have recourse to soviet industry that
she may acquire war material from
the Putilff works. So much for dis
armament.
In order to make amends for his
toric injustices Of the past, those
signatory to the treaty decided that
before Sleswig should go back to
Denmark and Upper Silesia to Poland,
plebisoites should be held
False Plebiscite In Silesia.
In violation of the treaty, Germans
who had been born in the plebiscite
areas. but who did not live there
were permitted to vote. In this man
n
10000 false votes in Silesia. Next,
Germany patiently set about re-
creating her alliances. Hungary was
scarcely exploitable in the absence
of the Hapsburss But Austria was
a tempting prey-7,000,0O0 brothers"
German maneuvers were not slow in
making themselves felt,
Before the treaty had even been
signed the German-Austrians de-
manued their Incorporation in the
cised her customary pressure. And
despite the fact that Turkey and
Bulgaria had fallen out, Germany did
not renounce her plan. Bulgaria had
recovered her liberty of action and
was playing the innocent. People
Turkey. on the contrary, proceeded
to take back everything that had
been taken from her Smyrna,
Thrace.
Turkeys feelings toward Germany,
it may be noted. have never swerved
a hairs breadth. Turkey had been
the faithful executor of Germanys
will in the Balkans and in Asia
Minor. had opened her ports to the
Goeben and the Breslau. Turkey.
which had been responsible for more
shedding of French blood in Gallipoli
and for the destruction of more allied
warships than Turcophiles are today
apt to bear in mind.
The "New Triple Alliance.n
Turkey belongs to the German sys-
tenn. She belonged to it under Abdul