The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-06
EUROPE QUAKINC
With FRIGHT, IS
SIMMS' REPORT
Moscow Is Said to Expect
Explosion Not Later
Than in 1893.
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the end of 1888 or thereabouts. This
comedies fairly closely with Mos
cows estimate of when Germany
will be ready to march.
Technical and financial experts at
London are working with the War
Office, Admiralty and other inter-
ested departments on estimates. Bri-
tain's idea is to build up the national
defense as rapidly as industry can
handle the work and the money
therefore can be found.
Russia plans to spend even more
Already, according to Soviet War
CommiSsar Voroshilov, she has a
standing army Of 100000 men and
these are to be augmented-prob-
ably to somewhere around 100000.
The Soviet Union fears attack on
two fronts, 5000 miles apart. She
therefore is perfecting two armies
instead of one, each composed of ap-
proXimately a million men, not
counting reserves. These run into
additional millions.
Allowances Are frightened
In the event of a simultaneous
German attack in the West and a
Japanese attack in the Orient, Rus
STA aims to wage each war as though
it were entirely separate.
The Little Observation-Disclosures
kia, Rumania and Yugoslavia-are
tightening up their alliances with
each other and with western Europe.
Poland, fearing to become the bat
tleground of Russia and Germany,
and seeing herself the loser which
ever won, is arming to preserve her
neutrality.
Holland claims evidence that Ger
many plans, in certain contingent
cies, to use her territory and ports
as military, air and submarine bases
for attacking Britain and France.
Switzerland is convinced Hitlerian
hordes may violate her frontiers to
get around French Notifications.
Austria Chief Touchstone
Austria, for Europe, probably is
the chief tombstone of peace or
war. Her independence is seen as
indispensable to the European status
quo. She is needed by Herr Hit
Ter to carry out his policy of expan-
sion eastward.
Thus it was mostly the problem OF
safeguarding Austria which caused
the recent flutter in Paris, where
the crowned and uncrowned heads
of European governments dashed
hither and yon across town for con-
ference after conference.
Nor is it by any means settled.
Diplomatic exchanges are still in full
swing. There still is the question
of restoration-of what to do with
young Archduke Otto, whose mother
the ambitious former Empress zita,
will never rest until her handsome
son sits on the Hapsburg throne.
In Otto some see the answer to the
Nazi menace to Austrian independ-
ence. Others bitterly oppose the
move. Some-the Little Entente
among others-have said they would
Use force if necessary to stop it.
Having been created in whole or IN
part out of the old Austro- Hungar-
ian empire, they fear Otto would be
a first step leading to their
undoing.
Geneva Is HeSitant.
An extremely important part of
the jig-saw puzzle of European
peace is a segment shaped like a
oot-Mussolini's Italy. Nor can the
puzzle be solved as long as that piece
is missing from the picture.
This truth today is sinking deep
and deeper into the consciousness
of old world statesmen. Far more
of them than would appear on the
surface regret the collapse of the
Hoare-Laval project to settle the
Italo- Ethiopian war. It may bob up
again in another form.
Europe-Which means the League
of Nations-does not want to smash
Italy. Some would like to crush
Mussolini and Fascism, but even
these are realizing more and more
that to crush him means to crush
Italy, so vital to the present Euro
pean set-up. Hence the hesitations
of Geneva.
Tomorrow-Behind Europe's fear.