Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-02
WORLD MENACED BY
A LACK OF UNITY
Faces New Offensive by Powerful
BOlSheviSm.
BY Frank H. Simonds


ParlS-We have just passed the an
nlversary OF the great military crisis
OF the recent war, when GERMANY al
most triCmphed in the attack of Mar.
Il, toward Amiens. We know now
that the German success was due
primarily to the absence of unity of
command on the allied side and that
supreme disaster was only avoided
because in a moment of utmost periI
the allies turned to F'och.
Today, after four months of armi-
stice and the peace conference. we
are in a certain sense reporting a
situation strangely and unpleasantly
reminiscent of last year. The absence
OF unity in command in the peace
conference in the last four months
has made possible a new offensive,
the extent of which is still undisclos-
ed, but the menace of which is daily
growing before all eyes. This is the
peril of Bolshevism.
Europe and America, in the pres
ence of domestic opposition, resigned
the policy which might have involved
the expenditure of some life and some
treasure, but would have meant a de-
cisive battle against Bolshevism by
the allied armies. The first proposal
that we should carry the war into
Russia with our own victorious ar
mics was vetoed by all the govern
ments of the great powers in the al
lance, because it was recognized that
the people of none of them would con-
sent to sacrifices which would have
to be made.
Hesitation Proves Costly.
There was, then, a second line of
policy-to support the Ukrainians,
the Roumanians, thePoles and the
people of the Baltic provinces, who
had sense of nationalism more or
less strongly defined Once more we
did nothing. AS consequence, Par
Add world menaced by lack of unity
is is informed that the Bolshevists
have practically conquered the Tx
raine; the handful of Greek and
French troops sent to assist the vol
unteers, without material or without
assurances, has been left to escape,
while the volunteers made common
cause with the Bolshevists. Rou-
mania, the best single bulwark we
have in the east, has been paralyzed
because of a quarrel between Rou-
mania and Serbia over a tiny morsel
of territory, a quarrel which the Par
is conference has not yet been able
to compose
The single effective Ukrainian force
is engaged in a campaign to drive
the Poles out of Lemberg The Poles
and Czecho-S lovaks, who together
should constitute a barrier on the
north, are at odds over the Eschen,
and we cannot make up our minds
to give the Poles, not allied troops,
but Polish troops, who have fought
in France. Finally, the quarrel be-
tween the Jugo-Slavs and the Ital-
ians continue, and still another of
those people who should be our allies
in the east against Bolshevism, is
disintegrating under attacks which
the Paris conference permits to con-
tinue. Instead of erecting a barrier
against the flame coming out of Rus
STA, we actually assisted in trans
forming margin states into infiam-
mable material
BOlSheViStS prepare attack.
We know that there is coming a
Bolshevist attack. We know that a
great offensive is being prepared by
Bolshevists, which may at any mo-
ment break upon Poland exactly as
Ludendorff's gigantic offensive broke
on the British just year ago. We
have sacrificed our first line of de-
tense.
In this time what of Germany? Had
we imposed upon Germany in Novem-
Der substantially the terms which we
mean to impose upon her in April or
May or June, the German people
would have known the worst, have
been compelled to accept, and would
already be on the way to adjust them
selves to new conditions. Instead
there has been no chance for the
Germans themselves, because Ger
many has been kept for four months
in the position of a criminal awaiting
what may be death sentence. In
such situation it is inconceivable
that any man would undertake to be-
gin plans for new life.
The result is that we have trans
formed Germany by our course into
new material of exactly the sort that
Bolshevism feeds them. And Ger.
many must be saved from Bolshevism,
not primarily on her own account, but
because if Bolshevism, sweeping over
Russia and Poland, enters Germany,
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