Evening star., 1925-05-31
GERMANY IS REVIVINC
"MITTELEUROPA' DREAM
Reich Must Grow to South to Regain
the Power Lost Through Poor
Craftsmanship Before War.

ways to accept the loss of Alsace-
Lorraine, the continental situation
was balanced by those two alliances,
Great Britain remaining neutral, ar
though toward the close of the last
| century very obviously tending to the
German rather than the Franco
| Russian combination This latter
| combination, by contrast, was
| strengthened by the growing power
of the several Balkan states, notably
| Serbia and Rumania. which looked
forward to acquiring lands inhabited
by men Of their race but held by
Austria and Hungary.
| From the German point of view tho
| supreme blunder that was made was
| the challenge of Britain in the matter
| of naval supremacy. This challenge
deliberately drove Britain over to the
| F'ranco-Russian side, pushed Italy out
| of the Triple Alliance, fortified France
and Russia, encouraged the small
| Balkan states and led inevitably to
| the day when these Balkan states de-
feated Turkey, become a German
| partner, remade the map of the BalS-
ans, and what was worse, acquired
the resources and the confidence to
prepare for the war of liberation
against Austria-Hungary.
Under Non-German Rule.
The result is now manifest As a
consequence of German defeat, Aus
tria- Hungary has disappeared, Austria
has been reduced to a state of g.
100000 inhabitants. Hungary to
fragment containing s.00O.000 people.
| Today the lands south of Germany
| are petitioned between Italy. Czecho-
slovakia and Jugoslavakia, while Ru-
mania has taken over nearly half Of
Hungary. Middle Europe, as the
German dreamed it, has been replaced
by new condition with Italy at
Trieste and Fiume, Greece at Solon-
tka and free Czech state holding
the Bohemian frontier.
Today instead of ten million Ger
mans dominating twenty millions OF
other races, upwards of five millions
OF Germans are themselves under nom
German rule, counting in this num-
ber Germans who We're under Hun
garian rule before 1918. In place Of
an ally to the south, Germany finds
three strong and hostile States,
! Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugo-
slavia, have forty millions of people
and united in firm alliance, the Lit
tie Entente. Moreover, II sees these
forty millions tending to closer rela-
tions with the 10000 600 of Poland to
the eastward If the situation which
now exists consolidates. If time per-
mits the consolidation of these new or
newly expanded peoples, then Ger
many is forever barred from any
demned to the narrow limits which
represent her present area, narrow
limits which would not be significantly
extended even If she recovered Dan.
zig and the Polish Corridor.
Nevertheless there is for Germany
a measure of possibility. Provided
she can make peace with France, pro-
vided France, with British guarantees
feels herself safe and withdraws her
present support Of the status quo in
the center of Europe, abandons her
alliances with Poland. CzechoSlovakia.
and her understandings with Ru-
mania and Jugoslavia. then something
might still be done But only on the
basis Of permanent agreement with
France, Britain and Italy as well.
Ally In Hungary.
The possibility rests upon these
conditions: The partition Of Hungary
has left this proud people resentful
and passionately resolved to recover
their lost lands, particularly the lands
lost to the Czech and the Rumanian.
those ceded to the Southern Slavs are.
from the Magyar point of view in the
main less important. Germany, then
} would find a ready ally in Hungary.
| were she to seek to change conditions
on the Upper Elhe and the Middle
/ Danube. Against Rumania and JuGo-
slavia she would also find an equally
ready ally in Bulgaria, which stilt
claims Macedonia and the Dobrudja.
To annex Austria. encirCle Czecho-
slovakia restore Slovakia to Hungary.
compel Jugoslavia to give back Mace-
donia to Bulgaria. and Rnmania to
give up the Dobrudja to Bulgaria and
Transylvania and the Banat to
Hungary-this would at one time as
sure Germany of the support Of.
, Hungary and Bulgaria and make them
for the future dependent states, since.
they could retain the restored lands
only by German protection. Thus
very briefly, Germany would re-estab-.
Ilish middle Europe to the TurkiSl.
frontier, where she could easily join.
hands with Turkey To complete thtst
edifice by taking Salonihi FROM
Greece, on behalf of Bulgaria, might.
be a final step. Il T.
Here, then, is the single real pos4
sibility for Germany in the future, If
Germany is to be a great nation in
the real sense of the word. She must
remake the map of Europe, she muste
restore the Austrian Germans con .
troll over the Czech, to the Magyars5
control over the Slovak and the Ru-a.
manian and establish Bulgaria at thes
expense of Greece, Rumania and Jugo-s3
slavia. At the same time she must
restore her own frontiers onrthe east.
at the expense of Poland, which, when
Danzig is in German hands, will be-
come economically a dependency Of
Germany. hR
Must Avoid Row. HG
But to realize any such grandioRef
scheme. what must Germany do? Firs3,H
avoid any new quarrel with Britain-t.s.
that is, avoid the mistake of the kaisef.h
Second, eliminate the French guaii-s
antee of Poland and CzechoslovakiA.E
Third, achieve the union of AUSTRIA
| with Germany, thus bringing Ger-t
many to the confines of HungarS.A
Fourth, be permitted a long periodt
of freedom from any Russian menacs,a
for when Russia does come bacNI's
the great Slav state is bound to re-
sumo its march for Constantinopls,E
and finding Germany bent in the saInss
direction, to take up the historic cha1a~s
pionship of the southern Sav and bsk
the Czech as well. Finally, Italy musts
be placated like France, for Italian oo-E
position to the annexation of AustrBs.E
! might prove troublesome IL not fatal.
In this situation what has GermaIlgs
already done? She has, with the tadits
approval of Britain, offered to guatt
antee the frontiers of France and Bes-s
GUM: she has proposed the neutraliza-
ton of the Rhineland, but the neu--
tralization against France as we'll as
herself. That is to say, she has sug
geSted that an area be created be-
tween France and herself which shall
be neutralized, forbidden alike to
French and to German armies, which,
means that II in the future Germany.