To little effect, as the thing at last developed, had Gabriel blown his horn, sounded his tocsin, for a miniature war of his own private making. Eventually Fiume, by a direct and friendly negotiation between the two disputants, was made an entirely independent state, which was to furnish to both nations port facilities, and the happy agreement was reached (to be signed the next day) November 11, 1920 This was almost as fitting a celebration of Armistice Day, two years after the memorable event commemorated, as was the disinterment and the reburial, of an unknown soldier at the Arc De Triomphe in Fränce and within Westminster Abbey in England, when on this historic date these two immortals representing unnumbered millions were followed amid the strains of the Dead March to their last resting-place by French President and English King in full regalia, and by Marshals and Generals, and by Admirals and Archbishops, and by Ambassadors and Statesmen, and by weeping women who each thought it might be her beloved that was being honored, and by countless throngs, who all with bared heads stood amid an impressive silence for two minutes at the fateful hour of eleven o'clock, while the precious remains were taken from the gun carriage and once. more and for all time were committed "dust to dust and ashes to ashes." A proposal, under suggestion from all this and having the endorsement of General Pershing, has been adopted by our Congress to bring an unidentified American hero from the European battlefield whereon he fell to hallow the new amphitheater in the National Cemetery at Arlington overlooking the capital of our country, and this is to occur on Armistice Day in 1921.

The Dual Monarchy by successive carvings lost its very duality, for Hungary became a separate political entity,

while only the distinctively German part of Austria remained, and this had a population of only seven millions as against the previous Twenty-eight millions, or fifty millions for the whole double empire. It sought but was denied consolidation with Germany, which also in vain desired the union, though this may yet be permitted by the League of Nations, for the realignment would be along racial lines, of which so much has been made in readjustments already effected. The reparations and requirements were similar to those exacted of Germany though in a lesser degree. The chief feature of the punishment meted out to the royal house of the Hapsburgs was the taking away of most of its territory in the forming of other nations on a racial basis. Hungary had to part with its subject races long oppressed, for separate groupings, while it was assessed its share of the damages done in the wide ruin that had been wrought. It remains only about a third of what it was in its palmiest days.

Never was there such upturning, and such overhauling, though of course with complete satisfaction nowhere, because at the various frontiers there was a confused tangle of races, no one of which had a clear majority. With Rumania, for the present at least possession seems to be nine points of the law. On the north she has had annexed Bukowina, and on the west Transylvania to the depleting of Hungary, and on the east Bessarabia, which Russia in the past had seized as a spoil of war, but which on Oct. 28, 1920 was ceded to its former owner by the Allies. The peoples of these provinces being predominantly Rumanian, of the same ethnographic type, were perhaps consistently gathered in to make the larger nation, more than doubling the

previous poulation of seven millions, for it is placed as high as seventeen millions now.

What shall be said of Russia? Elsewhere generous recognition is made of its large aid at first to the Allied cause. But under the Bolsheviki it signed, contrary to pledges, a separate peace that proved to be such only in name, and the country had to be left to "stew in its own juice." Its betrayal of its associates through its later misrepresentatives resulted in the prolongation of the war, and in indescribable woes that have been its from famine and pestilence and cruel executions. In the unsettling of stable conditions, it had lopped off from it (to say nothing of the uncertain status of Far Eastern Siberia) the republics of the Ukraine (30 millions), and of Finland (3 millions), and of the Baltic provinces of Esthonia and Latvia and Lithuania, and of Georgia in the vicinity of the Caspian Sea. All the losses, with the Polish added, reduced by more than fifty millions the 180,000,000 of the formerly unimpaired Russia. There will yet be an end to the mad regime, the wild orgy, of Lenine and Trotzky, who at the point of the sword dispersed the national assembly that had been duly elected in an orderly manner by the people at large. They did this, because the overwhelming majority was not to their liking, was against the anarchistic and destructive and wholly baneful theories and practices of the undemocratic and immoral minority. Its professed and extensively proclaimed program is that the proletariat should by violence rule over the bourgeois, that the manual laborers should crush and dominate the mental workers and all others of the so-called higher and better classes, even though confessedly the latter outnumber many times the former. That is not democracy but despotism, no less than the iron and ruthless rule of