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Show behind the plan," la their watchword. watch-word. COOL TOWARDS PLAN. It la known that Professor Thomas O. Maearyk, president -ee-t of the ("fte-cho-Hlovak republic, received the pro-. pro-. posal coolly and that he warned his coworkers In the lemocratlc Mideuro pean union, of which he isc hairman. tn be wary of It until they had learned all the detail a , "We have no doubt." aays Ir. H. A. j Miller, director of the Mid-Kuropean j union. whlh InclUd-" rri.rf s't -ft i of all the nations formerly oppressed J ny Jiil.ifiy iiu AuHii.u, lb. .i -- ! road from Danclg to Trieste would be ; an excellent ihing for the nations of , j F.nrope, but before we give It nor ap- I l nrov.it we must know what sort of a I franchise scheme ts behind It Thene t nations cannot afford tn tve away any of their lands or rights unless I they do It with their eyes Wide en. I "They are anxious for American cap-J cap-J ital to help them build up their na-I na-I tions. but I hey will not permit it to i Intrench Itself In their lands. Their boundaries have nut even been fixed yet. and nobody knows what the peace conference will do In that line. If the nations of central Kurope w lh to grant a franchise to an American company to oten a ten -mile atrip across Kurope, that la their business, but they will not do It until they know all the details of the plan." NEUTRAL ZONE FOR RAILWAY, PLAN OF YANKEES Liberated Nations View Proposition With Cold Suspicion. ISy Newtpaosi Enterprise Association. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 "fMnzIg to Trieste" iusle;id of "Berl.n to Big-dad" Big-dad" That's the new transeuropean arhern that has taken the' place of the "busted" dream of the pan -German Junkers. This plan is purely an American conception, however. It contemplates action by the recently liberated nations na-tions of central Kurope to have these results: 1. Kstabllsh a neutral sone ten miles wide, in an Irregular line skirting skirt-ing the boundaries of Poland. Chechoslovakia, Checho-slovakia, Austria and Jugu-Slavla. extending ex-tending from the Baiuo sea to the Adriatic. EAS.Y TO BUILD. S. Fulld a m1ern railroad throiiL'h this strip, on which every nation will be free to transport Its products to either sea without duties. S. Construct a modern road through the strip for the transportation of com- . modifies by vehicle from one country to anotnrr The advantages of such a scheme are said to be that th proposed railroad, connecting th chief seaports of toe Baltic and the Adrltalc. would h eajiv to build, because of th absence of geographical obstacles In Its path, and would give free arcee to th sea to the landlocked nations of central Eu- TOpe, American representatives tt these nations are very cautious In expressing express-ing the beany approval of th scheme that wss evidently expected of them, for they scent jt joker in th pack. t'Hands off until we find out whether i - -AmerVsn f'Tfrnt e inter ar |