Archive image from page 301 of Discovery Discovery discovery0102londuoft Year: 292 DISCOVERY stable when boundaries arc settled by considerations other than geographical or ethnical. The pre-war Austrian Empire, for example, was such a mixture of political and economic interests that it was bound to come to grief sooner or later, and at the present time it looks as though there were no place at all for it in the new Europe. Again, Italy's northern boundary before the war was unsatisfactory, because much of what was essentially Italy was in Austrian hands. The war settlement, although it has
Archive image from page 301 of Discovery Discovery discovery0102londuoft Year: 292 DISCOVERY stable when boundaries arc settled by considerations other than geographical or ethnical. The pre-war Austrian Empire, for example, was such a mixture of political and economic interests that it was bound to come to grief sooner or later, and at the present time it looks as though there were no place at all for it in the new Europe. Again, Italy's northern boundary before the war was unsatisfactory, because much of what was essentially Italy was in Austrian hands. The war settlement, although it has done much, has not straightened out everything. It has established the state of Poland, and this is justifiable on racial grounds, although the country's position geographically is weak principally because there are no natural boundaries to prevent invasion or to restrain the Poles from wandering beyond the racial limits of their country. It has also transferred Alsace-Lorraine to France, and this is justifiable on the ground that the inhabitants are more in sj-mpathy with the French than with the Germans. ***** The treatment of the Hungarian plain, however, is considered to be the most unsatisfactory' part of the peace settlement. This is the country of the Magyars, and the partitioning off of parts of it among neigh- bouring countries is bad, and very likely to lead to trouble in the future. Rumania, for example, by annexing parts of Hungary, has lost her unity of political outlook and her racial homogeneity. The new state Czecho-Slovalda, which comprises Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia, is in many ways the most interesting country in Europe at present. As a whole, however, it is strategically weak, and it dot - not possess geographical unity. For while Bohemia is geographically individual, and Slovakia strategically strong, Moravia, which unites them, lies across an important route from the Adriatic to the plains of Northern Europe. ***** Of those who have attempted to set d
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