Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1925, Page 56

New “Mitteleuropa” Is Dream Of Germany for Expansion ___(Continued between the Rhine and the Channel— that is, in the regions which nre of strategic importance to Britain her self. France has so far refused to accept the German proposal because she feels that z Germany successful n eastern and central European ventures would ultimately return to the Rhine to round out her great em- pire. Thus France regards Poland, Crechoslovakia and Jugoslavia as hav. ing the same relation to her security as Britain ascribes to Belgium, Hol- land and France in her own case. Austria is Key. But the key of the whole situation lies in Austria If Germany cannot bring about the union of Austria with the Reich, the whole plan falis to the ground. It Italy and France, for ex ample, support the little entente in insisting upon the maintenance of the veto to such annexation contained in the treaty of Versailles, the game is And that is precisely why al German agltation today centers upon this point; that is why Marx, the R 1, ‘and Hindenburg, the Na- both demand this union. Tt is the corner stone of the new Germany, if there is to be a new iermany The old Germany shipwrecked be- cause it lacked the statesmanship to preserve the perspective of reality. once Bismarck was gone. It chal lenged the Anglo-Saxon on the seas, the Latin in the north of France and Belgium, as well as in Trieste and the Trentino, where it supported Austrian rule, an it challenged the Slav in all the center rope. In the four the Franco-Pr and the World War the G up a dream of restoring _the frontiers of the -old German Empire of the Middle Ages. These ntiers stretched to unim- aginable limits, while they res ed Russian efforts to liberate the south- ern Slavs; moreover, at the same time they undertook the construction of a colontal empire and a first-class fleet Bismarck, who hated the British and despised the Russians, had, neverthe- less, buiit his foreign policy upon good relations with both countries. As a consequence his hands were free the Russian side when he at Austria in 1866 and on the Bri when he crushed e in 18 in 1914 Germany had to fight F nd Britain, and Italy became And if no German will sponsibility for the World War, vou will find prec few apologists in Germany for rman 1ship h failed to pre- combination of powers in st Germany not want another ngland. The memory of er blockade will survive the present generation. She does not want war with France, because she perceives that such a war surely involve Britain. Moreover, sible Germans, like the same Kk people in both France and Brita perceive that anoth general would mean the ruin of all combatants and the probable collapse of But, nevertheless, Germany does pas- sionatel desir to be a great power again. She is determined to achieve this end. She might even in end envisage a new war in the west if by no other means were it possible for her to gain freedom of action in the east concede v Secks Freedom in East. all German nship ated upon the solving of the problem of how to ot 1 {reedom in the east without a in the west Today France stands resolutely by the treaty of Versailles, which is the nega- tion of all German hopes. France is, in fact, the guaran f rity of Poland, Czeck the separation of many. The little entente. cludes Czechoslovakia, a France, is the guarantor of ent Hungarian frontiers. 000 of the little 30,000,000 of Poland to the 4 T ing Ger r - g B mor upon to eliminate pansion But concent s m: ally of ed southward, the Frenc o the status quo in the east and south— this tive of the man, 1 of his offer of France, for Belgium, for H erland as it m. Moreover, he is ready to assent to a British guaran- tee of t which would obligate Germany 4 for rterp: erman ious beyor as alli he e Gern all else to ce satisfied Of course man does not analyze his aspirations in the same fashion others might. He b ase for expansion on the the population of Austria sively German, upon the fact there is a minority of 3 J mans living beside in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia He bases his claim to Dar undisputed fact thai of the city is German the corridor is twofold, th ple, while Slav as to a n fer' German rule, and, further, that it is absurd to separate two miliions of Germans in East Prussia from sixty in Germany. Finally, he claims Upper Silesia on the & terpretation of the plebiscite and the undoubted fact that Germans devel- oped the great industrial plants. Would Cut Off Poland. There are ten millions of Ge; in Austria, Czechoslovakia and in the Polish corridor and Danzig, to liberate those under Polish aand unite all under the German Reich —this is the foundation of all cotem porary German policy. It assumes that the Austrians desire the German connection, which may be questioned, but on the assumption that they do, the case is founded upon the prin- cipls of self-determination. It also an the G involves cutting off Poland from the | sea and leaving six millions of Czechs an enclave in German and Magyar ter- ritory, while it would put a million or 2 million and a half of Poles back under hated German rule Germany, thus increased, would be- come a natlon of 75,000,000, control- ling the outlets of six millions of Czechs and twenty millions of Poles. Moreover, its own interest would then in all probability lead it to become 1 guarantor of Poland against Rus- sia, of a Poland brought back per- haps to the limits of the Curzon line, thus obtaining a buffer state against Russfa and transforming Poland into . political as well as an economic de- pendency. Hungary, restored to its ancient 1imits on the north, south and cast, at least would also become an Ay ‘and a political dependency. Bul- sarian alliance could be had for & similar championship of Bulgarian raeial claims, and in this fashion Ger- many would become once more the greatest continental power. It s essential to perceive all the implications of this new German pur- joss, not the least of which must be the destruction of the Lmegue of Na tions, for Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, states directly menaced, are «all members of the league and thereby assured of its protection. If it is un iblo to protect them, its prestige is bermanently shattered. And it was o fortify this league protection that the small states with France framed he famous protocol. the protocol Britain was uny a league pT waintein suc the | the pres- | ?|after having given the Hai is of this in- | mans | and Czech rule | tection. All her effort is now concen- trated in persuading France to adont a similar course, which means, in | frank terms, to throw the league over- board and substitute a regional pact. It France should follow suit, the | league would disappear as a real fac- |tor in the preservation of European | peace France Eager for Peace. But will France consent? The question is still open. On the face of | the situation one wotild say not. But | France s passionately cager for peace and, strange as it may seem, for any settlement with Germany which | might give any promise of her own security. The political leaders who control France today, and their hold | has been strengthened by the recent | munictpal ~elections, would certainly consent If they could get a satisfac- tory guarantee from Britain and | Austen Chamberlain, before he went to Geneva to do the protocol to death, advocated such a guarantee. A satis. actory British guarantee and an advantageous German commercial v pact, might just turn particularlv —as = Belgium, France western ally, is tending rapidly to- ward the British view In any event it must be patent that we have come to one of the cross- roads of history, and it is of utmost importance for Americans to perceive the real meaning of the German pro- posal for a security pact in the West. It is by no means the sign of German acceptance of all the results of the war, but rather the first move in the policy of a Germany which means to set aside all the decisions of the war in the East, but is striving to empl the Bismarckian strategy, which con- sisted in placating in advance all pos- sible opponents save those which were to be directly attacked. This was the the tric Third age.) been called. On assuming the execu tive office President Borno said in a public manifesto: “Prior te the events of all of my life, been firm the acceptance of foreign intervention |in tne affairs of my country. The | brutal massacre of some of our most prominent citizens in the prison at Port au Pr and the terrible spec tacle of our country on the verge of anarchy, misery and ruln convinced me, with a!l sincere and enlightened Haitians, of the necessity for outside assistance 'he United States was the only ; to which we could look for help, and we welcomed the American intervention, grateful for the security from anarchy which it _assured to us. “After almost seven years I am still of the same opinion. I firmly believe that the American intervention has saved us from anarchy. “1 therefore s e in terms not equi | vocal that the policy of my govern- { ment will be complete and Arnest | application of the treaty of 1 Con. | fident of the solemn engagements contracted between Haiti dnd the great American Republic and in the justice of the American people, I will | for effective assistance in the | rehabilitation of our finances, the de- | velopment of our resources and the | reaiization of all of our great possi | bilities for prosperity and happiness.” Co-Operation Is Generous. is fortunate that the Hi only have such an e hat the finest spirit of co- 1operation and team wo! should exist between the executive and the Amer- | ican high commissioner to whom is | intrusted the success or failure of our | intervention_under the terms. In all | trankness, T am compelled to say an prob. {lem my best study that T unq ed! | indorse the recommendation of the | Senate committee, signed by members of both parties, to the effect that the | American administration in Haiti { should her be marked by con- | tinuity of s The committee r i ported that only have cer n American officers and officials been | chosen for service in Haiti who were | unsuited to their task. but men have |been transferred from responsible | posts before they could very well have | learned the duties to which they had | been appointed. of the American occupation in Haiti there have been half a_dozen chiefs of the Latin American Bureau, half a dozen commandants of the forces of 915, 1 had opposed to occupation, half a dozen cbmmanders | of the Cendarmerie d'Haiti. Every can who has an opportunity v Haitlan conditions will indorse this recommendation. Russell Has Able Staff. Fortunately, in the present high commissionier & man appears to have | been found who has the temperament, the tact and the executive ability that | this difficult position requires. In addition, Gen. Russell has been fur- nished with an exceptionaily able staff |to administer the several executive departments, as was recommended by that Senate committee. As a result Ithe ‘amount of improvement finances, public works, agriculture and sanitation eccomplished in the past few years is almost incredible and Halti is rapidly taking a position where she will again be worthy of the | place she occupied during the days of | French regime, when she was known | | throughout the world as the Pearl of the Antilles. Of course, all material development depends upon a_healthy people and for that reason I believe the Ameri- can public will be interested in learn- ing of the efforts that are being made to strike the shackles of disease from these unfortunate people. For more than a century Haitl had the dire reputation of being one of the worst pest holes in the tropics. Not only was the virulence of the yellow fever | epidemics among the most terrible of which there is any record, but almost | the entire population was affiicted by those scourges which always follow in the wake of white civilization. The taint had been transmitted from one generation to another, until only the ruling class appeared to have escaped it. ease Then, Widespread. A widespread disease of both body and mind existed at the time of the occupation, and Commander Butler of the Medical Corps of the Navy, who has had charge of this work, and his assistants, have accomplished lit- tle short of the miraculous in clean- ing up this condition. The dilapidated and insanitary structures in the larger cities which served as hospi- tals have for the most part been put in excellent repair, while Central Halti, which was entirely without | hospital facilities, has been provided |with numerous dispensaries. Until these were opened the nearest physi- clans were at Port au Prince, or Cape Haitlen, & hundred miles away, and the sufferings of the immense popula- tion in the interior can be better im- | agined than described. One of the hardest tasks that has confronted the American doctors has been to overcome the superstitions of the natives. Most of those in the in- terior are believers in voodoolsm and |attribute their ills to curses pro- nounced upon them by the voodo doctors. Many of them in the be- ginning had to be forcibly subjected | to treatment “or ulcers and other ail- | ments, but the medical men have now ned the confidence of these simple . along with the German secur- | During the six years | to| —_— To Wed in Early June ‘\IR‘ 'GEORGE W. GODWIN, ‘Who, before her marriage, June 6, Miss Mabel F. Snyder. JR., was policy which made the German Em- pire, and the opposite policy between 1890 and 1918 unmade it. And suc- cess or failure, this side of a new | general war depends upon the decision of France. Survey of Haiti Reveals Island’s Marked Progress ,people and they are voluntarily sub- | mitting to treatment. Thousands are now reporting monthly to the branch | clinies in the mountains for salvarsan and mercurial injections which for [ the treatment for the most wide- | spread diseases and the good results of this work is already apparent. Health Conditions Good The work of sanitation has trans- formed Haiti from a pest hole to a community that takes high rank in matters of health. The discoveries of Reed, Gorgas and other American sclentists who conquered the diseases of the tropics have been carefully applied by the high commissioner and his medical advisors and as a result typhoid, malaria and_yellow fevers, which killed off the flower of Napoleon’s armies like flies, have had only a negligible effect on the health of the marines. American sanitary science i ning up Haiti as effec- tually s Panama, and the contrast in the health reports of the American occupation forces and hose which Gen. Leclere sent to Napoleon is one of the most striking In medical his- tory To give yvou an idea of my losses” (from yellow fever) Leclere wrote apoleon, “know that the of the line came here 1,398 stron, | today there are 83 half sick men with | the colors and 107 in hospital; the rest |are dead. The Eleventh Light Infan try landed here 1.900 strong—today it has 163 fit_for duty and 200 in hospi- tal. The Tist of the line, originally 1,000 strong, has 17 men with the colors and 133 in hospital. And it is the same with the rest of the army." In contrast with these figures it is probable that the medical returns of Gen. Fuller in command of the marines in Haitl do not differ materi- 4 from those of American com- ders in other foreign countries. | In conclusion I wish to state that |I cannot condemn too strongly the | unwarranted criticisms appearing from time to time in the American press regarding our occupation of | Haiti. These criticisms which are Lased on superficial knowledge if not upen absolute ignorance of actual con dittons and which in the main are in | spired by a handful of disgruntled and | discredited Haitian agitators who have been separated from the government pay roll, have a tendency to hamper the great constructive work that is being so splendidly carried forward through the intelligent cooperation of | the high commissioner and the presi dent of the republic.” Y. W. C A At the fifth annual benefit program |given under the auspices of the Y. ning in the Gold Room of the Shore- ham Hotel, Mrs. Rose Maxwell Dickey played the following numbers on the violin: i by Beach; “Mel- |ody,” To a Wild Rose,"” by MacDowell, together with a group of Plantation Sketches by Cecil Bur- leigh. | Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler sang in her first group of songs—“Ah, Love But a D by Beach, with a violin | obbligato Heart is a Lute,” by Woodn: Life.,” by Pearl Curan; “Robin, Robin, Sing Me a Song,” by C. G. Sproff. Mrs. Wheeler concluded |the program with a group of Indian | songs. The fund which supports a destitute Washington boy was established in March, 1919, following the death of Lieut.” L. H. Bayly, in France. Mr. Bayly’s body is interred in the cemetery at Suresnes, France. Yes- terday, Mrs. Willlam Hamilton Bayly, mother of Lieut. Bayly, placed on the grave of her son flowers given by the Booklovers of the Washington Y. W. * % % x The education department = an. nounces the opening of tennis classes for the month of June. Registrations can be made at 614 E street. Miss V. M. Bogder is instructor. Registra-. tions are also being made for the |June swimming classes at 614 E street. Miss Ruth J. Walton is swimming instructor. * % % A ukulele class is being organized in the business and professional wom- en’s department for the months of June and July. All business girls are welcome to join. Mr. Sophocles T. Papas, entertainer, will be the in- structor. * ¥ %k % The Chevy Chase Chapter will meet at the home of Mrs. Harold E. Doyle, 3818 Huntington street, Tuesday, 1 p.m. KR The Indoor-Outdoor Club members of the Young Women's Christian As. socfation are spending this week end at Vacation Lodge, Cherrydale, Va. Miss Gertrude Davis, president of the club, and Miss Mignonette O. Buck. ingham are hostesses. The Indoor-Outdoor Club is the old- est Young Women'’s Christian Associ- ation club in the city. Its history is very closely allied to the history of Vacation Lodge. Tn 1908 the late Dr. Joseph Tabor Johnson gave an acre of land at the present site of |the lodge to the Young Women's | Christian_Association to hold in trust |for the 1. O. C. Club until it had aised the money for the bullding. | The money was raised under the di- | rection of the extension secretary @: | the Young Women's Christian Associ- |ation, Miss Ludema Sayre. Miss Mar: zaret Johnson was ckairman of {he de- 3 | W. C. A. Booklovers Wednesday eve- | partment of extension, since called the business and professional women's department. The original committee credited with ralsing the $7,676 is composed of Mil- dred Bartholow, first president of the club; May E. Cattlett, Mazie Kums- man, Martha Smith, Tmogene James, Iva Johnson, Irma Wilson, Florence Haskell, Ruth Swem, Edna Frizzell and Florence M. Brown, then general secretary of ths local association, and later hostess of the Young Women's Christian Assoclation in Shanghal, China. Vacation Lodge is a big. roomy buflding with screened dining and sleeping porches, secluded by trees and yet easily approachable from trolley or highway. Over the fireplace in the Iiving room is a statement which is perhaps the keynote of the restful- Awnings, slip covers and window shades made to moaswre. Furn ness of the lodge: T came here to find myself, it is so easy to get lost in the world.” The lodge is provided with an ex- cellent water supply, electric lights and showers. The board is as inex- pensive as possible, the lodge planning only to pay expenses. Mrs. Elaine Rising, former secretary of religious education for the association, will be the hostess at the lodge during the Summer guest season. " Hughes Sails From Bermuda. HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 30 (#). —Former Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, with Mrs. Hughes and their daughter, Miss Elizabeth, sailed today for New York, where Mr. Hughes will resume his legal practice. OPENING OF MEMORIAL TO IRVING IS DELAYED House in Spain, Shrine to Author- Diplomat, to Be Dedicated June 14. By the Associated Press. SEVILLE, Spain, May 30.—The of- House here in memory of ethe Ameri can author-diplomat, which ior today, has been postponed until June 14. Ambassador Alexander V. 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