Who is Responsible?
To the Editor of the "NortH-Cutva Dany News"
Sm,—In writing your leading article of this morning, you have entirely overlooked the fact that the overture to the drama which you have entitled "Danse Macabre" was composed by a number of collaborators of the Allied Powers at Versailles, St. Ger-maine, Trianon, Neuilly and Sévres in 1919 and that this composition is so full of discords and is, in its structure, so unbalanced that the developments of the play which have followed it could not, to sane observers, be any different than what we have. in the past 19 years, seen unfolded before our eyes.
The disruption of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was willed by the Allied Powers, in order to pay satellites "for services rendered," and it is not for them to complain if the inevitable consequences of unparalleled political blindness now assert themselves.
It is, therefore, tragi-comical if those who dictated the Treaties abov named by force, now complain that a change in the map of Central Europe has been brought about'by the same means, This is in the nature of the kettle calling the pot black.
Austria is, as was the case before 1866, back in the Reich again. Conditions are different of course and yet, in a sense, they are parallel. The Austrian Dynasty of the Habsburgs ruled the Reich for centuries and the Austrian Adolf Hitler will rule it now. In a way of looking at things, Austria has reconquered the Reich.
Sram.
Shanghai, Mar. 16.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.