Evening star., 1923-12-30
The Story the Week Has Told

submitted for ratification to the Hungarian
government, to the governments to which
Hungary Is indebted for reparations and to
the member governments Of the little entente
No doubt the required ratification Will be
ceived before the next council meeting. in
mid-March, whereupon the plan will go into
precisely the same that which has been ap-
but details of Application ' will dep % consider
ably, inasmuch as Hungarys plight is moth
ing like as serious as Austrias was; For ex-
construction loan, but it will be less than
half hal rans the size Of the Austrian loan and win
sufficiently secured by unhypothecated assets
of the Hungarian h government RePasasion ion
twenty years but Hungary must continue
dueed to bagateiIe @ for twenty yea gears. IS AS
in the case of Austria, league commission
will exercise fiscal supervision.
The currency should soon be stabilized and
he Is ts that budsst as W
sufficient in the matter of food. Not the least
n, Imp9rtant ia feature of the instrument Of agree;
her disarmament obligations under the trianon
by the allies. it is this feature in chief which
comm e9mmends m the plan an to the little entente
Foreign Minister Benes Of hs sia and
Premier Bethlen of Hungary. The names of
Austria will be honorabiy associated in his
tory Benes. of course being the most dis
tngulShed or the three.
BULGARIA.
1t will be recalled how general elections in
May last for the Bulgarian sobranje or parlia-
ment returned twelve bourgeois" representa-
tives, fifteen communists and more than 200
members of the agrarian party. Then, early
in June. the revolution, the overthrow and
death of Stamboulisky, the dissolution of the
sobranje, the seizure of power by the bourgeois
parties, the complete discontinue of the agra
rians. General elections held few weeks ago
two communists and agrarians Queer isn't
it, But the agrasians MS have no kick coming.
stamboulisky's book.
GREECE
In response to invitations from the pro-
visional government and the revolutionary
committee (the real government. or super
government, SO to speak) to an appeal signed
by 800 of the 396 elected to the constituent as
sembly, and to another appeal from a. large
proportion of the army and navy officers of
Greece. Venizelos has consented to return to
tionary point into constitutionai bay. the sua ap
peifants are pledged to allow the great man
edg though sssoy out and fGl hi. o%n
experience warn him not to trust them over
assertion that his new involvement in politics
will only be ssmporary pc that - he will not take
his estimate Of the situation on on the e. ground @ nd
itself, and as developments may seem to re-
quire. He has not always acted wisely: 1t was
only at frightful cost that he disillusion-
ICED as to the capacity of Greece for the i'm
perial role. and indeed for self-government.
But he has learned from adversely. His most
recent services were his best. At Lausanne he
saved much for Greece and went far to re-
habilitate considerably diminished reputa-
tion. He owns one of the most precious Of assets,
the ability to keep his mouth shut Nobody
knows which way he inclines; to monarchy
or to republic. Probably he has not decided.
Nor is 1t certain which party will be the
stronger In the constituent assembly the mon
archist or the republican; many wavering ones
are waiting on Venizelos' declaration OF pref
erence.
Nominally venixelos Is to be only an .unofn-
-cial adviser, actually he will exercise power