Evening star., 1923-08-07
Snapshots.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

BY Wireless TO The Star.
ABOARD THE L. 5. ). LEVIA-
THAN, August Central Europe
breathes an atmosphere of impending
war Grievances are abundant, ha-,
treds are many and the spirit of greed
is unsurpassed. Only economic fee
bleness and the uncertain hold of
present day governments prevent an
outbreak of hostilities.
Yet this very impotence may en-
able the peace parties of all nations
to gain the upper hand At the mo-
| ment, however, the talk is Of ulti-
| mate war within ten or fifteen years.
| Mothers are already talking of dis
tant America as the place TO send
| their growing sons. and if the United
States no longer will give asylum to
the European peoples as of yore be-
cause of immigratioU laws, then
South America will be the haven of
the common people.
In Vienna. the gateway of south
eastern Europe, one hears rumors of
trouble from all sides. The Balkans
are far from quiet. Central Europe is
now on small scale armed to the
teeth. The peace treaties that ended
! the European war were designed to
| give autonomy to aspiring nations,
but they could not have been intended
to accomplish in five years the asSim-
| ilation that must require a genera
tion or more.
Spirit of Revenge Grows.
Nor can monarchies be overthrown
| and privileged classes be divested
of their properties and interests
without sowing the seed of counter
| revolution. 10 there is Hungary
| now, controlled by the monarchists.
making wry faces at the little re
publics which have been carved out
of former Hungarian territory. The
spirit of revenge Is growing in Hun
gary. To fortify themselves against
the return of monarchists there has
military alliance of Czechoslovakia,
Rumania and JugoSlavia, known as
the little entente. This triple al
lance is supported and fostered by
France. and lately Marshal Foch has
visited these countries really on a
! military inspection trip. Poland is
not a member of the little entente,
but is on most intimate terms with
Rumania and would have been ad-
mitted into the little entente but
for boundary disputes with Czecho-
Slovakia.
Hungary has been looking about
for possible support in a military
way i'm the event of serious trouble
in the future and naturally has
turned to Italy because of the latter's
inevitable clash with Jugoslavia
over Fieume. Hungary has been
flirting with Ge rmany and Great
Britain, because France openly has
been helping the little entente.
Seeds of War Here.
The seeds of war are here Were
Hungary strong enough she would
today be at war over her lost terri
tory, and only a desire to preserve
what they received at the Paris peace
conference impels the little entente
to stick together as against Hungary.
But the checks and balances of CEN
an index of the future. They consd-
tute a kind of political legerdemain,
in which chancellorS and PREMIER en-
gage as means of soaring each
other into mutually better relations.
Foreign Minister Benes Of Czecho-
slovakia, for instance, is at this very
moment endeavoring to negotiate
commercial treaty with Hungary, and
conversations are going on in Vienna
with that objective. CZechoslovakia
erting a great influence toward peace
in central Europe.
Hungary Needs Loan.
Hungary is in desperate need of
loan such as put Austria on her feet,
but this cannot be obtained from the
larger allied powers without the ex-
press consent of the little entente.
So CZechslovakia is using the loan
proposals as a means of exerting an
influence on Hungary to make the
latter country more tractable. In
other words, Hungary must give up
the idea of bringing back the Haps-
burgs and must accept the new order
of things, or else no help will be
Forthcoming. In fact, first of all
! the peace treaties Her neighbors
suspect her good faith on this point.
| Once Hungary has made a new COM
mercial treaty with CZechoslovakia
she will earn the support of the little
! entente for a foreign loan, but under
conditions even more drastic than
those imposed upon Austria in respect
to the receiver-generalship and for
eign supervision of her armament.
u. y. Bankers Watch Closely.
Jugoslavia is having plenty of trou-
J BILE amalgamating the Croats, the
SloveneS and the Serbs and recently
| she forfeited the confidence of for
eign bankers by excessive expendi-
| lures on armament instead of recon-
Struction. Only recently the Blair
| group of American bankers decided
| not to lend any more money tosJugo-
slavia because it was reported the
| first $5,000,000 of what was to have
been a fair sized loan was diverted
| for military purposes
| American capitalists are watching
central Europe with intense interest.