Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
FARLEY ON PACT
REVISION IS seen
Question of Agreements After
World War Becoming
More Acute.
BY WILLIAM BIRD.

~ Cable to The Star.
PARIS, July (C.P.A) The ques-
ton Of revising the treaties which ended
the World War is becoming more and
more acute and this week has seen GER
tain indications that within the future
the problem must be faced in interna-
tional conferences.
On this question Europe is divided
Into two camps. One side is headed by
France and comprises all the so-called
successor stateS-Poland, Czechoslo-
vakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania and the Bal
tic nations. This group believes that
any attempt to revise the treaties, par
ticularly as to national frontiers. would
open q Pandora's box Of unknown
troubles.
The other side, which consists mainly
OF the defeated nations, Germany, Hun
gary and Bulgaria, to which Italy has
Joined herself in the hope of getting ad-
ditional concessions that her Paris peace
delegates overlooked, holds that terri
torial and colonial revisions at the ex-
pense of the nations in the opposing
groups are the sine qua non of any
fruitful discussion Of permanent peace.
Duce Senses Opportunity.
Mussolini, indeed. signed an article
which was widely published in both Eu-
rope and America, in which he sensed
an opportunity to make Italy the
spokesman for this latter group of mall
contents. It is q curious document mer-
iting close study, for after arguing that
the European nations have no common
enemy against whom to unite he goes on
to say that Italy might favor such uni
fication movement provided the peace
treaties are first revised. This singular
reasoning can scarcely be interpreted
otherwise than as an offer to help pro-
mote European federation on the con-
dition that Italy and certain other dis
satisfied powers obtain territorial salts
factions and may be considered as an
an1iable salute toward Germany and
Hungary, with both of whom Italy has
long been flirting in the hope of get
ting up a solid opposition to Frances
plan of consolidating peace on a basis
of status quo.
Some encouragement for this stand
doubtless is given by the poor taste
shown in the many German jubilations
over the liberation of the Rhineland.
That the German people as a whole
should rejoice that the last foreign SOL
der has departed is only natural. It
Is only natural also that the extreme
nationalist factions in Germany should
childishly thumb noses at the French
troops. as they departed. But the
chauviniStic cries of triumph were
singularly misplaced when it is remem-
bered that France withdrew from the
Rhineland five years before the termi-
nation Of the minimum occupation Pc
riod and that the withdrawal came
after long negotiations and as the re-
suit of Germany's fiancial concessions
at The Hague in January.
Signs of Unrest in Bulgaria.
One cannot believe that the respon-
Slble statesmen in Germany will be
lured into any revisioniSt movement
launched by MuSSolini today, nor Is it
thinkable that Hungary will believe that
the hour has struck to denounce treaties
and defy the world.
But what about Bulgaria? Recent re-
ports from Bulgaria show signs of a
dangerous unrest against the back
ground OF profound economic distress,
and popular opinion seems to be ready
Tor trouble. War as q remedy for eco
non1ic difficulties is always tempting
Many people throughout the world to-
Gay believe that a medium sized war
somewhere would aid business and help
the SoclallStlc tendencies in home poll
tics. Others, however, have different
opinions, and among these for the mo-
ment may be counted the leading states
men OF England, France and Germany.
not to mention America.
But the troublesome question of the
revision OF the treaties and the reparti-
tlon OF these colonies will not down as
long as any great powers have an inter
est In stirring it up, and that is why
the writer may confidently predict that |
u Will be the subject of important in |
ternat1onal parleys within coming
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