Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1919 — Page 7
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919.
ANIA’S REVENGE ADDS NEW TANGLES TO BALKAN COMPLICATIONS
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roopm to ired one more of chacge* in mouthof which there have i ao many in the years that sepUrst Balkan war from the along the Danube. S B-J551,. "*'" ihlt under the title of the id dominated eontlthe morrow of the
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to the I>anube in Europe and the Cilician had neither the troops nor the will to gate hi Asia. The Bulgar recalls the intervene to Hungary, Roumanian glories of Simeon; the Serb the con-'troops were set in motion. Quests of Duahan The Roumanian goes We had then the ridiculous change of back to that Roumanian period when : rircum«tances which must go far to exthe colonists of Trojan settled the Da- ; plaining to the world the ultimate weakcian country between the Theias and the ness of the present authority of the Dniester. The Hungarian fixes his eye | Paris comerenoe. One day the allies dees that map of Europe which existed at | mended that Beta Kun should quit. The the moment When the world war began, neat day Bela Kun was ousted, not beand shows Hungary a state in area cause of allied proclamation, but begreater than Italy, with a population of ; cause Roumanian armies were ap more than 2Z9Wm of people ; proacbing Budapest and the next day. Now at this precise moment all feuds on Hungary's appeal the allies were a thousand years old and several brand ; ordering the Roumanians to refrain new ones confront the statesmen or the j from entering the Hungarian capital, student who would seek to find a rea-, and twenty-four hours later were desonabie and lasting settlement in the fmending that the Roumanians leave the near east. The Itadans and the Jugo- city they had occupied. Stars are to conflict from Gorixia to What Roumanian occupation of BudaSeutari, the Greek and Italian from psf really menus must be dear. Rou-
Vaiona to Smyrna, the Greek and the Bulgarian from Salon lea to the out-
by Treaty.
if* of Italy's Vienna and to the
•a
A few
later,
• last .
Made.
early in 1»13,
I war had been * In support of Bulwlth the Greeks and
* with the Turk to fe-
of most of their
Thus short
'.trh.KS of ths Turks
llle Tloumania.
Austria, sent
skirts of Constantinople; the Roumanian sad the Bulgarian to the Dobrodja: the Roumanian and the Ukrainian in Bessarabia and tbs Bukovjna; the Roumanian and the Hungarian from the headwater of the Theiss to Sxgedto; the Roumanian. the Serbian and the Hungarian to the Banat; the Serbs, the Croats and the Slovenes, on the one hand, and at first the Hungarian and then the Austrian along the Drove, and finally the C*ehoSfovaks and the Hungarians in the Carpathian highlands of the eld Hungarian
to a few
Sm+i
Flume Question a Puzzle.
At the present moment the conference of Paris is vainly trying to solve the Flume question, the dispute as to northern Epirus and the ^gean islands, the
to the problem of Thrace, to fix the title to
the Dobrodja and to Bessarabia, the rights of the several claims in the Banat and the Just and right frontiers in Transylvania. ', Now It Is necessary to see the Roumanian adventure to Budapest to the light of recent and past history. For something like a thousand years the Magyars have held, in a servitude beyond endurance, a quarter of the Roumanian speaking population of the ; world They have deprived these people of every right and every liberty. They have oppressed them to every conceivable way. Roumania entered the world
' children. She
a“
which was Austria-Hungary
later.^ButoHria, to nl „„sy as well ns AustrU assailed Serbia, and the ig Constantine, while of-
surrondered to the emerge
» and the fortress wog w - war of l«a, to enable to complete the deatruc-
Var to redeem these lost children. She was defeated and her country ravaged terribly, to fieri at least by Hungarian troops. She re-entered \he was Austria-!Ringary wasrfaillng. to territory taken from her tn 191* a
war when
regain
territory taken from her in 191* and territory justly belonging to her but never
Austria yet redeemed.
Rgumania and Poland will unques-
tionably be the two h^eat new states to
from this conflict. Both will
have an area greater than modern
■ and a population capable in no time pf exceeding that of the
Follows Italian Example.
In the fall of the next year Roumanla followed the example of Italy and Joined the western allies to an attack upon Austria-Hungary with a consequent war with Bulgaria. In this conflict Roumanla, betrayed by Russia, was swiftly crushed; Bulgaria was occupied by Hungarian. Bulgarian and German troops, and a year later by the eecond treaty of Bucharest Roumanla had to
surrender not only th# territory she had he&rtog
taken from Bulgaria In the first treaty, that of litt, but also her entire sea
coast in the Dobrudla.
Dess than a year later, when Italian troops had crushed the Austrians in the north and the Saktolca army had overcome Bulgarian, Austrian and Turkish troops to the south. Roumania entered the war, took from the
x a Elans the territory seised hr them and again Invaded and thla time held
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vast regions of Hungary. Fruit of Seven Years.
In the brief span of seven years then
• we have seen the Bulgarians the allies
the Greeks and the Serbs and the of the Turks In one war; the opof the Greeks, tne Herbs and rks to a second; the allies of the with Greece as a silent partner;
n an attack upon Serbia in a third: the allies of the Turks and ths opponsnls of the Roumanians, the Serbs and the Greeks to a fourth; and at this present hour Sofia dispatches forecast a new Bulgarian attack on Serbia and ^Irfthts same time, Roumanlk. starting as an ally of the Oennans and the Aus-
StSSlon tliana, has attacked Bulgaria in con-
junction with the Serbs, the Greeks and the Turks; has attacked Auetria-Hun-
r and been attacked by the Bulgars, Turks and the Germans. As an ally eiA* and to a war of liberation vaded and occupied a great provbelonglng to her recent Russian
ally, and now at last appears in Budapest, retumtiur the visit of the Hungarian troops to Bucharest less that
three year* ago.
Confjfolon of Near East.
One could indefinitely multiply these circumstances which thus revealed the utter, and, to the western mind, the hopeless confusion to the near east. The Roumanian episodes of recent days are
'***.' only one more of a series which extends **’ backward Into the night of time to that
hour when Rome was no longer able to hold the iDanube frontier, end the latter time when the Bysantine empire succumbed to the double attack from the and from the south. In that the Bysantine Greeks, the Serbs, Igars, the Turk*, the Roumanians and the Hungarians have to turn dominated all of much of that no-man's land 6hich extends from Budapest to the Golden Horn. Each In turn has aspired to great empire, possessed immense power for a brief period, and then yielded place to an ambitious neighbor. And underlying all else In this Balkan and Hungarian complications Is the consciousness 4n the minds of each of the many nationalities that it was once a great nation, and the belief that it has
ah imperial destiny. .
They AM Turn to the Paet. Greek turn* backward to the By-
when the frontier of the re, etlll Inviolate, extended
time
I that the as to the
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Savoy monarchy. Therefore, Roumanla, like Poland, is a foroe with which the western nations must reckon. She will be the most powerful state to the near east, con Ironing the Danube, rich to natural reedurcee, capable of an enor-
mous industrial expansion. >
Would Hava Won Hearing. 1 In the old world of practical politics at the congress of Vienna or of Berlin, a state of Roumanla’s potentialities would therefore Jiave won a ready heading for her demand*. Moreover, thl*
would have been granted. the
more readily, elnce Roumanla had been a faithful and, on the whole, an invaluable ally to a war in which she tout *uf-
men and
feted terrible lease* alike to m tn money. _ i
But the conference of Pari*, alike in
case of
Itself forever and idealistic
Buithe case of Poland and to the
Roumanla. has found yMfBatbic between new
conceptions and old-fashioned and material considerations. Largely through American influence there has been a constant tendency to seek Ideal solu
tlons repugnant to friendly nations and on the whole pleasing to peoples recently to arms against the victors of
the present war.
Thus the Paris conference has so *ar refused to recognise Reumanta’s Just claims to the old Russian province of Bessarabia. It has championed Hungarian claims in Transylvania and/In the Banat, and in addition supported Bulgarian demands to the Dobrudja. .
Deserted by Her AIMm.
The result his been that the- Roumanian peoples, have found themselves, after their great sacrifices and sufferings to the war, forbidden by the hations in alliance with whom v they' have fought and to whom, at a critical hour. they T brought Invaluable assistance, iu>f alone to occupy the territories to whlth their claim was at least as good as the French to Alsace-Lorraine or the Italians to Trieste add the Trentlna, but also to establlrii their title to lands which they had already occupied, and to use thelrarmiea against Bolshevtat* alike to jRussla and tn Hungary, wbo were seeking to undermine Roumanian
security. f v
When I left Parts ^ little more than 4Wo months ago, the Roumanians were prepared to abandon the peace conference, to fall back upon their own 1 resources, which are not inconsiderable, and vindicate their title to the lands which are for them what the French lost provinces wett? to France, and Italian Irretfacnts for Italy. were prepa red to sAnd their arrnles\ into the Banat against the Serbians and to Budapest against the Magyars whether the Paris conference wished It or not. Now what has happened Is simple. In my last article I pointed-out how the Paris oonferehes .lacking the troops.
had been obliged to renounce a military expedition agalsnt Bela Kun, with a cortpoquent loSs of authority and emphasised how illustrative this incident was
of the whole world situation.. Then Came Rapid Changes. Within a few days there was then^an
Important change. The allies had no force sufflcient\to dispose of Bela Kun, against whom they continued to issufe proclamations ss they had been doing ever since the outbreak of the Hungarian revolution. -But Roumania had armies. She had claims to enforce against Hungary, and when the allies
does not arrive as the mandatory of the western power*. She arrives as the contesting power with Hungary for more than a thousand years for the gw—iiart ns; of certain provinces until yesterday Hungary’s, with the memory of recent Hungarian outrages tn Roumanian territory and the age-long record of Magyar oppression against Roumanian peoples In Hungarian capi-
tal into the bargain.
Who Is Going to Do It? Who Is goiter to oust her? Who is going to prevent her from fixing those frontiers which correspond with her view of her Just right, but have been challenged by ‘he mapmakers of Paris? Who Is going to prevent Roumanian soldiers from exacting some little compensation from the Hungarian people for the destruction and the extortion of Hungarian troops in Roumania? Yesterday the peace conference was trying to get rid of s Bolshevist Isader in Hungary as a preliminary to recognizing Hungarians and all their neighboro. Bfn today the Bolshevist regime has fallen, not to proclamation, but to Invasion. After a thousand years the Roumanian people have at tost achieved a unity long sought The allies had no troops and they had no unity of purpose adequate to supply military force to drive the Bolshevist govsmment and army out of control in Hungary. Will R be easier for them to find troops to attack Roumania, their recent ally, to order to take from her territories to which her claim is st last as good as
the Hungarian?
Moreover, and this is capital what will be the effect upon the Czech ©-Slovaks and the Serbs of seenig Roumanian armies, to defiance of the Parts conference. occupying Budapest, and Roumanla acquiring possession o' the Hungarian provinces which she claims? Invitation to All Others. Patently It will be an Invitation to Jugo-Stov and Csecho-Sloyak armies and statesman to follow ths same ex-
ample. They have claims to establish to the Carpathians and on either side of the Drove. Moreover, will the Roumanians bow, having broken with the Paris conference, fulfill the threat so often heard before, and s*®d - their troops tote th# Banat to sweep out Serbia and complete the expansion of Roumanla to her natural frontiers? And to face of all this th# western powers are by ho means united. The English and the Am rtcans sympathize with the Hungarians, the Italians and th# French with the Roumanians All the western allies hesitate to confirm Roumanto’s title to Bessarabia lest It arouse the hostility of a Russia presently restored. But Roumanla sees in this
their own countries because they were dissatisfied with the allocation of De-
brexin or Oxernowitx.
Concert of Europe in 1912.
Recall that In 1915 the concert of Europe which then occupied, the position now held by the conference of Paris, solemnly forbade the Balkan j states to attack Turkey and equally j solemnly asserted that whatever the i outcome of the war there would b# no j change In the frontiers of the Balkans, j After Luleburgas and Kumanova the j
—same concert of Europe had to recog0 L h ims, 0 *?n*!hrir 'di^^ces to nl « that the victors would draw their
the matter of the Hungarian frontier, own map.
in their frank rupture in the rose of To me the Roumanian occupation of th# Banat. ultimate evidence of the Be- Budapest seems the most considerable ceswity of acting tor herself | of political events since the armistice. Her pathway Is clear. She to now a; in Paris I had Roumanian acqualntnation of occupying ah area ances and fairly good sources of tnforgreater than Italy, with a potential mat ion and I came away convinced wealth Incomparably superior. I that Roumania would never under any ,, _ . .. I circumstances permit western EuHer Present Situation. '| rope to deprive her of what every Against the Jugo-Slavs. who contest. Roumanian regarded as his patrimony.
• The Roumanians were wilting to al-
terms unless the allies are willing to send armies to support the Magyars and fight Roumania. In other words, while the Paris conference Is still wrestling with the ethnographic map. the Roumanian sword has drawn new frontiers, and unless I am very much mistaken. Roumania will now apply the same method .to Juglo-Slavla she has used in the case of Hungary. In any event, Balkan affairs are now resuming that violent course which is their disorderly routine. RESIGHS AS PRINCIPAL A. E. Benge Quits at Hartford City— Frank McGoath an Applicant CSpecial to The Indianapolis Ness] HARTFORD CITY, Ind., August 16.—K.'E. Benge, for the last year principal of the high school here, has sent word from hts home to HUlsburg. Ind.. that he has resigned as prin-
cipal of the school hers and wit! devote his time to the insurance bust* ness. Mr. Bengs came here last fall from Forest. Ind.. where he w^« prim cipal of the high school. Mrs. Bongo, music and art instructor to th# high school, has also resigned. Frank McGeath. principal of the junior high school at Crawfordsville, Is an applicant for the/princlpatship here.
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her claims to the Banat, she has the proffered assistance of the Italians, who are at odds with the Jugo^Stovs atong the Adriatic. Against the Bulgarians. who still cling to their rights to the Debruja which would deprive Roumanla of her stogie seaport. ■ she has the assured support of the Greek*, who control with the Bulgars th*
possession of Thrace. Italy, she can set her
ward a German alliance because she can bring strength • sufficient to ensure a forgetting of recent events. <w| The Paris conference may now de- J
maud that the Roumanians submit to capital and can impose any terms its decrees and surrender territories j they ^choose upon the Hungarians. Roumania holds Its own. but nobody j who Will have to comply with those
who knows the temper of the_ govern
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low' the Paris conference to draw thetr frontiers, but only on condition that these frontiers correspond with Roumanian conceptions. Above all. they were determined to liberate Roumanian populations tn Hungary and to establish their natural frontiers of the Dan- j ube. the Thetoa, the Maros and the Dniester. They have seised upon the present break between the Paris conference and the Bolshevist gov-
rtun-
ter-
v which they claim, save only the portion held by Serb troops in the
Banat.
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