ECONOMICS & HOME RULE
The cabled report of a defensive alliance between the Slavic States Czechoslovakia and Jugo-Slavia-, \frith a probable extension to include the Rumanians, who are a Latin race, and possibly Greece and Poland, raises some hope of ? better social and economic nniiy in " Salkanised " Middle Europe. The economic disadvantages of the separation of Czechoslovakia and Jugo-Slavia from Austria and Hungary might be mitigated by commercial treaty, or by some arrangement to prevent the erection of mutually hostile Customs and railway tariffs in. countries that are now independent politically but which are still interdependent in matters of trade and transport. German Ausirift and Magyav Hungary are racially and traditionally hostile to the Czech Slavs and the South Slavs, and to >jlumania. Under the Hapsburgs the Germansi and the Magyara ruled, and the Czechs and South Slavs and Rumanians were under the heel. But will bad blood prevail against economic necessity? Will sheer need dictate commercial compromise, of must the standard of living fall in older to adapt itself to political aloofness'! ■
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 50, 27 August 1920, Page 6
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172ECONOMICS & HOME RULE Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 50, 27 August 1920, Page 6
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