Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
DOMESTIC TROUBLES KEEP
EUROPEAN LEADERS BUSY
FrancO-Cerman Relations and Berlin
Warsaw Feeling Improve
During Year.

AS to the Polish settlement 1t Is easy
to exaggerate and to underestimate It's
value. More than one generation will
pass before the German people accept
as definitive the eastern frontiers OF
Versailles or cease to plan for the sup
preston of the Polish Corridor. But
modification of these boundaries today
would be possible only as the result Of
a general and colossal European con-
f1ict.
But If Germany cannot hope now to
recover the Polish marches, then she
must face the fact Of having neighbor
whose market may easily prove one Of
the most profitable for German ex-
ploitation. An industrial Germany and
an agricultural Poland are in the ma
ture of things Complementary and Ger
man industry and Polisl, .sSr1culture
have both paid high prices for political
strife.
Polish Policy Fails.
The original German notion that by
shutting Polish exports out Of the Ger
man market Poland could be ruined, has
proved fallaciouS Poland has not coll
lapSed but, on the whole, has gone for
ward. She has found other markets for
her coal, she has been successful both
in New York and in London in interest,"
ing capital. If her domestic politics
have been turbulent, her business and
finance have both made striking pro-
gress and internal development Is going
forward steadily.
In the face of this fact the attempts
Of the understand particularly of the
| East PruSStan and Eastelbian agricul-
turistS, whose politics and pockets are
equally conference.-the bar all Polish
products have in the end failed. Normal
economic relations are now assured. One
more irrational political wall is destined
to disappear. am warned both by Ger
man and Polish friends that there may
be new difficulties and that delays are
inevitable. Yet all agree that in the
, end business conditions will prevail over
political.
Over against this improvement Of
| international relations one has, how.
ever, to set the fact that in Germany
and in Poland the domestic conditions
are both chaotic and disturbing. While
Hindenburg lives political disturbance
in Germany Is unlikely, but when he
| dieS-and he is very old-al sorts OF
trouble is possible, If not certain. Par
| liamentary democracy has not proved
an unmixed blessing for Germany, and
dictatorship was at least matter Of
| discussion while I was in Europe.
Significantly, a discussion of a die
| tatorShip did not involve forecast Of o
restoration Of the monarchy. Germans
lament the disappearance Of a method
which produced efficiency, but few be-
moan the disappearance Of a man or
clamor for the restoration of dynasty.
| And there Is common testimony to the
| fact that any move for a dictator COM
ing from the Right, from the reaction
aries, would certainly provoke an in
slant and dangerous resistance by the
| Left.
PilSudsk Losing Ground.
As to Polish domestic politics, they
| remain beyond the comprehension Of
any non-Polish mind. Pilsudsh Is GER
tainly losing ground, but, on the other
hand, Parliament is hardly gaining.
Poland, too, is suffering from the failure
both Of the dictatorship and the
| democracy which have been its post
war portion. Indeed, If you except
France, where prosperity precludeS
political upheaval, and Britain, where
political institutions are too solidly
established to be affected by economic
depression or governmental ineptitude,
all Europe seems suffering alike from
political and economic malaise. Four
considerable countries, Germany, Pc.
land, Italy and Spain, face situation
where the death of one man might be
followed by chaos.
And, If you leave out of account the
Franco Italian rivalry, which is GER
tainly the most serious postwar devel.
| opment in international affairs in Eu-
rope, domestic rather than foreign
troubles dominate national interests and
national attention. Europe, after q
considerable period Of rapid economic
, recovery, Is having a period Of bad
| times. People are worried about bread
and butter rather than prestige and
foreign politics. They are more dis
gusted with their own governments
than angry with their neighbors.
Starting with Ireland, which recently
had an upheaval in its Cabinet, there
Is not really one stable ministry dis
coverable in any of the larger countries
save Russia and Italy. Minority gov
ernments prevail in Britain, France,
Germany, and many smaller states.
Polish and Spanish relationships have
more or less broken down. The Social
1st Government in London has proved
fiat failure, but the Nationalist bloc
in France, despite French prosperity, Is
hanging on to power precariously.
After, as before, London, no one Is
really talking of war In Europe. But
II international situations are on the
whole better the main explanation must
be found in the fact that everyone has
an adequate supply of trouble at home.
(CopyriRht, 1890