Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-26
EASTERN EUROPE
HOLDS PEACE KEY
Capitalists and Communists
Come Into Direct Conflict
in This Area.
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.

BY Radio TO The Star.
PARIS, April 25.-Although the war
| in 1914 came-in it's opportunity IL not
it's causes-from eastern Europe,
events In that region are not always
as closely watched as they should be.
1t is just there that the peace treaties
made the most sweeping changes in
sovereignty and in boundaries, and it
is there that two contrary principles
of government-the capitalist and the
Communist principes-are In imme.
date contact.
On the one hand the Bulgarian rev.
olution, which shows these principles
at loggerheads. and on the other the
| new treaty between Czechoslovakia
and Poland, emphasize the Importance
of what is going on in this neglected
part of the Old Warld.
Propaganda by Reds.
The Soviets, despite official de-
malls. through the Third Interna-
tionale, have been carrying on an
intensive campaign of Indictment
among their western neighbors. Hav
ing lost the war of 1920 against
Poland. they have adopted the obvi-
Gus policy of political action looking
to the absorption of the minor coun
tries bord ering on Soviet Russia.
There have been Communist strikes
in Greece, Rumania and CZecho-
slovakia. There We're violent dis
turbances I'm Esthonia last December
! The Jugoslav government was dis
solved because the Raditch Party
went over to Moscow All the insur-
rectional organizations and all the
| discomfort in Bulgaria are the work
| of Moscow agents, who carefully pre-
pared for the campaign of assassina-
| ton and aggression now in progress.
Frontiers Are Life.
This is not the only danger threat
| ening the states which were created
or aggrandized by the 1919 treaties
Russian nationalist traditions allied
| to Sovietism are only their eastern
peril. On the west, Germany's re-
fusal to recognize their frontiers is
an equal threat. Their frontiers are
indeed their very life, and when Ger
many speaks of pacific revision of
| boundaries she is laughing at the
| world
Revision, If insisted upon, can only
mean war. Germany has discovered
that Ramsay Macdonald Is not her
only friend in England. The former
premier said in his speech at Glouces-
ter the other day, II am opposed to
the 1919 treaties" But the present
conservative government also refuses
to guarantee the frontiers which these
| treaties established.
CzechO-PolisI Treaty.
The new Czecho-Polish treaty is an
effort to reinforce those battered docu-
| ments. Only these eastern govern
ments, in fact, have taken the treaties
resolutely as the basis of their ma
tional life. All their powerful allies
| have either repudiated them, like the
United States, or have revised them
| like Britain, or have modified them as
France has done. On the whole their
policy, despite the economic difficult
ties inherent in such consolidation of
| new trritories, has borne fruit, and
these little nations are today far
stronger than they were five years
ago. This example ought to be a good
lesson to the bigger allies.
The new nations are beset on one
side by bolshevist intrigue, on the
other by German ambition. and on all
sides by British indifference. which is
the ally OF both these perils.
Since 1920 the little nations have
worked wisely. liquidating their old
quarrels among themselves and estab-
| fishing firm and lasting alliances, such
| as the little entente, as a substitute
| for the constant improyisauons which
have been the rule among the west
| ern allies,
The little entente, if it gets better
support from the great allies, will I'M
| doubtedly be a strong force for peace
and order in the future.
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