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Show -'PEOPLE MT EDITOR TELLS PSPE1 j Quadruple Alliance Favored to j Insure Peace of Europe; I Gives Advice to U. S. BUDAPEST, April 1. Safety for the peaco of Europe lies in an alliance alli-ance between Rumania, Poland, Czeclvo-Slovakia and Greece, in the opinion of Take Jonescu, who as editor, ed-itor, financier and politician has played play-ed a prominent role In the national life of Rumania for a quarter of a century. cen-tury. Talking with an Associated ' Press correspondent recently, he expressed ex-pressed the hoMfapelqcsuch. an alliance al-liance realiz6d:v5iTth America 'taking an Imi)ortant;paln.;thrk. of Bal-knncountrfcB:; Bal-knncountrfcB:; l U. Sjjakcs MlstaWc. '"Unless America, shows Interest in Balkan comnw.ee," he said, "Jt is possible pos-sible we alVswill- again fall Into ihej hands of Ggrrhpny if only because ofj the exchange situation. Rumania is dotormingd to operate matters for herself her-self butinay not be able to do so. I am vefrypjorry America has refused to occupyonstantinople and I am sure in a fevf years the people of the United States will realize their mistake mis-take In not doing this service to civili- (zation and possibly to their own com- j merco. I Another Solution. J ! "As America will not take a man- date auothcr solution must be found. J I advocate sending Rumanian troops to help the allies in the present scheme of neutralizing Constantinople and the Dardanelles as we have a, great interest in keeping open that' outlet to the sea. "I think Rumania will act in accord I ,with her neighbors in the interest of1 i the rest of Europe. Rumania mado! j great sacrifices in the war, but the-charges the-charges that she had disregarded the' allies are untrue. Our inter-, 'nal political strifes must not be taken too seriously. We are democratic and,' arc for freedom and against despotism,! 1 Bolshevism and Internationalism. Ru-J ! mania is intrinsically woak but we iare poor because the Germans took, our cattle by the million and our agricultural agri-cultural machinery. "One of tho worst conditions con-i Xrontlng us Is that the people will not) work. During the last five years wej have produced nothing, but havo ac-! quired a taste for higher standards or living. From an economic point ofi view it was one long joy ride. - War I means waste and also laziness. Sol-; dlers In the trenches may be bravo but1 they come homo idlers, even wastrels, i Our national debt is 25,000,000,000 lei. and the wonder is It is not more." I ' . . i |