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...This settlement of the grievance between Russia and Great Britain will slacken for a time the tension along the long Asia frontier, reaching from Mesopotamia to Thibet, Burmah and the Malay States. A bugaboo in the shape of a Russo-Japanese alliance fostered by acquiescent China, and drilled by distant Germany, may have enough reality to alarm the farsighted. In the meantime the British naval base at Singapore is being built; the Russo-Japanese danger can be faced when it arises...
...attack on Czecho-Slovakia goes farther. In the peace settlement Hungary lost 119,847 square miles of land, or over two-thirds of her territory, together with her richest mining districts and nearly 3,500,000 Magyars, or about one-third of her pre-war Magyar population. To this must be added the fact that Hungary was less guilty in the events that led up to the outbreak of the War than was any other of the Central Powers. Yet she has suffered more severely than any of the late enemy countries...
...certain participation of settlement with the Germans is due partly to the efforts of Belgium, who flatly declined to discuss with France the final terms of German reparations unless Britain were consulted. This attitude did much to influence Poincare in taking a more conciliatory attitude with regard to British participation in future deliberations...
...urges an oral discussion," but makes no mention of the Ruhr occupation or passive resistance. In the meantime Herr Stresemann, Chief of the People's party, is being kept in reserve. Much anxiety is being evinced in Paris over the trend of British policy in connection with reparations settlement. It is known that Premier Baldwin will base his plan on the 62-year settlement of the British war debt to the United States, that he will strongly back the moratorium demanded by Germany and that he will limit the maximum demands on Germany to about...
...Settlement at Last...