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GERMAN-AUSTRIA. THE PRESENT POSITION. ROAD TO THE EAST:

[FROM E. ABBREADBARTLETT.]

VIENNA, March 8th, The problems which confront the future of German-Austria at the present bout

a hasty, and eventually disastrous, deci TJIKINI

TJIBODAS may be most conveniently divided undersion with regard to her political future.

Therefore, although the old Austria was three main heads, namely, (1) supply (2) finance, (a) political. Any writer who the second most powerful enemy of demo TJIMANOEK deals with these problems from the stand-cracy and of the Entente in the past, poins of the Entrate "is_faced with, this will not be wise we für-seeing to: regard difficulty. From the very beginning of her in the same category of enemies as It will be the world war Austria threw herself body Germany stands in, to day. and soul into the struggle as a supporter much wiser for the preservation of the of absolutism against the right of free peace of Europe in the future, and for democracies to live and let live There safeguarding the interests of the new fore, he is likely to find but small sym-Republics which have sprung up amidst pathy for a nation which has been in the ruins of the old Habsburg Monarchy, to regard her as an erring child who mist strumental in bringing about its own downfall in the support of an obsolete f'be placed on the right road, and saved and tyrannical cause. But a distinction from falling altogether into the evil hands has always been drawn between the rea which have been instrumental in dragging ponsibility of Austria and the rôle played her to perdition in the past. The facts by Germany in fomenting and bringing must be boldly faced. If you allow Aus

tria to drift into an immediate alliance. about the world-war. We have always with Germany, you place the Junkers regarded that former as the misguided at present biding their diminished heads the most unscrupulous gang of intri- dupe of the intter, especially in the later

guers the world has ever known, right in the beart of the new Republics, and stages of the struggle, when the Aus

within twenty kilomètres of the frontiers, trians, anxious as they undoubtedly were of cash. to make peace, found themselves too firm- ly in the grip of Ludendorff and the Junkers to break away, an account of the German control of their railways, in- ances, and food supplies.

of

The result can well be left to the im on a subject which, from the experiences agination. It would be futile to enlarge of the last four years, every man in the street should know by heart. Before the Treaty of Paris is signed, or before the ink is dry on that Treaty. German agents in the and Jugo-Slavin, not will be flooding Czecho-Slovakin. Hun political interests of the German Repub fic. "but

also to secure the Balkan markets her ! for German

man -exploitation., It is hardly

There are now two alternatives eonfront ing the statesmen of the Entente in re

Austria's political gurd to

future. Either, she must be allowed to juice natural ethnologica grouping, namely, a Confederation of German Republics, or else she must be detached from tural ethnological grouping and become a too much to say that the war will have member of a Danubian Confederation, been fought in nia if Germany is allow Hungaryed to control Vienna, and has compensate. composed Czecho-Slovakia, and possibly Juge-Slavia, in gympathy herself for what she has lost by the return with ente

and working under the guidance of of Alsace and Lorraine to France: by

is дв well at this stage.

stage placing her in a position to dominate to examine carefully what the first of the politics and markets of the Balkans these alternative,

an alliance namely, with Germany would really mean; what a powerfu reinforcement would be brought on the side of the enemies of civilisation, and how such a union would more than compensate Germany both economically and strategically for the loss of Alsace and. Lorraine.

the

and the East.

AUSTRIA CANNOT WAIT.

The Austrians are only awaiting a "They are still word from the Entente. prepared to follow any advice which may be given them, but they cannot go on wait- ing indefinitely They feel they have not of German-

received the treatment which they were. With the absorption

to expect when they signed the Jed Bohernia and Austria proper, a popula tion of some ten millions would be added Armstice. They feel they have been de- to the strength of the German Empire serted and left stranded by the Entente, and that they have nowhere to turn, ex- of need. a people of high intelligence and consider. able prowess, which would be enormously cept to Germany, in their hour of

There is also another feeling springing developed

rule and Ger under Gorman

that if the man organisation. Strategically, Gerial the country namenien

leaders of the Entente will not by this volus- many, would german-Bohemia and with a solution of their tary union with Austrio

would find herself planted She firmly on the Danube, a; Vienna, and she, would cbtain that gateway to the Balkans and road to the East which was her most cherished drear of the past.

even

I

can

present difficulties, only the influence of the International Socialist Union save them from complete ruin.

Careful inquiries serve to show that, at the time of the signing of the Armistice, at least 90 per cent of the Austrians were opposed to a union with Germany. Weary of the war, disgusted with the laughter, and ainrmed at disasters which the affiance had brought on them, the mass of the people only sought a way out of their difficulties

would bring them some which attle for tolerable for their many pressing necessities. as the final ad-

looked for counsel and for advice from the Batente statesmen.

THE DESIRE FOR REVENGE. Only the victors have ever accepted settlement following a prolonged war as Anal The vanquished may pretend to motives acquiesce, from sheer necessity or of policy, but in reality the determination to be revenged at some future date ever remains paramount. Therefore, it would be both foolish and short-sighted to re-

justment of the

gard the Paris settlemen of nations. all time, and thus, relying on their good faith, to place our worst enemies in a strategical position

ad,

ensure them an boUDES OF

or no hostile feeling

They

any of the their time-

"which would give Allies except the had little

then immediate opportunities fe inces-

Unfor hereditary enemy. it is the latter who by the terms

saat intrigues against our interests, and tuntemistice, have been placed in

an excellent jumping-off ground for ag

of the

thus pre- bc-

gresarve military action on some future charge of Austrian terrace.

occasion, when the longed for opportunity at length presented itself.

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Austria and the Entente. Since the Armistice absolutely nothing has been done by the Entente to guide Austria to a sound channel which economic will ensure her political and future, and detach her from a German alliance.

Quite apart from the paramount im- portance, in the future interests of all the Allies, and for the preservation of the peace of

of inducing Austria Europe to become a member of a Danubian Con- federation, composed of her old sister- States of the Habsburg

which bave sprung instead of a member of Motare

Yet this is exactly what we are going to do, if, through apathy, ignorance, or from sheer ennui at attempting to settle many difficult problems at one and the same time, we allow German-Austria to unite with Germany proper, and thus plant either a genuine German democracy which need not of necessity change the

the race military spirit and ambitions of

at Camouflaged imperialism Vienas, and right in the very midst of the new Republic the lika mushrooms

cungbl Europe's

e's sorrows, none of which is song of German Republicsthe present pitiful safegard its own independence state of the mass of the people must eienna is within twenty kilometres of

sympathy in all but the most im

of hearts. It is impossible to the frontiers of Hungary and Czecho Slovakis, and has played the role of a realise the trials through which the people clearinghouse for the commerce and are passing unless you visit the country

ese Republics, of all these

in the past and see for yourself. The bare necessi the

lines main

railways pass ties. OF life are lacking, and only those with money can obtain enough food of a doubt- through the city, and then on to the Bal

and certainly derable earc

quality. to .I have

finance

and Constantinople. The Anancial

d-economic interests of all the new Re

aro

publics formed from the diamine the available resources of fond

Austro-Hungarian Empire are so closely

answer may be given in two words. are living on bope, and on eosp

tound together that it is impossible for The of anything that can by any possible

indepen

any one of them to exist as an

length of chance te tarned into soup. There dent economic entity for any. time. They will be forced to come to are no limits to these pictures of

neigh

human misery ontside these soup kitchens,

of Vienna.. in the poorer quarters. mutual political

some modus vivendi with tentions of

bours.

The have formerly been controlled from Vienna, the clearing-house for the com- "This vast system of unemployment

It ezanot on indefinitely,

go merce and finance of them all. Vienna, therefore, remains the natural com

thefits is to fr cominuta-

then that the crux of the whole economie situation will be reached. When untem-.

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tor of the future, and ifter, it will mean ployment pay ceases, the Government will the German ing hereafter, placing the Germans, whether Repub at heart or merely camouflaged as such, right in the very centre of these new Republics, and in eventual control of their Ruarcial, economic, and, as a tural corollary, their political destinies.

DANUBIAN CONFEDERATION NEEDED.-

be obliged to feed a huge percentage of the population at the free kitchens. The financial situation will, however, be but little changed, because under the present system the Government is issuing only so much paper which it takes back in return for so much food. But the effect on the feelings of the population may be distrastrous because as long as a man who hes orcupied a respectable, self-support- ing position in the social order has money with which to purchase the bare neces- of life he still feels he has a

free meals

for waiting

MANUELO but the moment he is oblle

to

soup in & long

There is only one way of preventing what was formerly.only natural ethnolo gical grouping for German-Bohemia and Austria, but which is now rapidly becom ing a paramount economic necessity for both,

and that is the immediate German-Austria, Czech

Hungary, and possibly Jugo-Slavia, under the protection and peculiarly susceptible to the ultra, comes guidance of the Entente. In other words, dies promised by the vague disease of the the re-creation of the old Habsburgi mind, engendered by the extremist misery Monarchy under a new name, composed and known as Bolshevism-Daily Tele of a number of frea Republice, but united graph;

of a Danubian Confederation, composcitane then-his mind. becomes

of

Czecho-Slovakin, Ger-

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