The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-19
SOVIETS CHEERED
BY ALLIED POLICY
,eniue and Trotzky Have Less
70 Fear at Hands Of West
ern Powers.
sAIT1C STATES END WAR
Polish offensive Against Boil
sheviki to Be Halted by
Peace Council.
nv LAURENCE HILLS.


S,os Correspondent Of The .suS.
copyioht, 1919. all rights reserued.
p,srs Sept. 1s.-The Peace Council
hasn't officially adopted any new pol
=, toward Soviet Russia. Yet 1t is
,-ao that Ienine and TrotzlSy have less
90 ,ear at the hands Of the Allies than
:, any time since peace negotiations
were started.
In the last few days it has developed
here:
FIRST, that nothing Is to be done to
,revent Iithuania and Esthonia from
making peace with the Lenine Govern
ment. thus removing all chance for the
c.pture Of Petrograd and releasing n
large Soviet army there for employ
rent against Kolchak and Denikine.
Second, that the Polish offensive
against the Bolsheviks. which pene-
,rated 200 miles into Russia, Is to be
sopped by the Allies. The Poles are
10 be told to stay where they are ana
threatened with the economic weapon
unless they obey orders
Third, that further support Of Kol-
chalk is hanging in the balance. Kol-
ehak is receiving but little assistance
now; virtually none from the British,
while Denikine's assistance IL coming
largely from the French.
Germans Are Threatened.
Fourth, instead Of allowing Foch to
send another ultimatum to Germany to
withdraw troops in the Baltic provinces
u~fx "A
matter with the probability that the
ultlmatum will not be sent but instead.
Germany will be told that unless the
troops are withdrawn bankers in Amer
lea will be discouraged from advancing
the loans she hopes to make there as
soon as the treaty IL ratified.
Fifth, that the plea of the Poles to
be allowed to send an army to clear
che Germans out of the Baltic States
has been fatty refused on the ground
that It would be further encouragement
to the military ardor OF the Poles when
their country needs economic recon-
struction: and on the further ground
that It would .complicate the Silesian
trouble. While decisions with respect
to the German troops in the Baltic
provinces have only an indirect bear
Ing on the Russian situation as far as
Bolshevism is concerned, the whole
trend Of the policy shown Is one OF
laissez faire, II would now seem.
That Lloyd George would have gone
further than this and possibly had the
council formally define its Russian atti-
tude is the assumption reached by many
from what has happened recently. par
tIcularly with respect to British policy
His statement thCt he approved such a
plan but that the Council opposed 1t
brought no respcnse from any of his
colleagues. Nevertheless the British
press bureau then gave out the state
ment that the Council approved the
British policy and had gone on record
as opposing further British adventures"
Peace n Blow to Allies.
The peace between Lithuania and
Esthonia on the one hand and Russia
on the other was a blow to the Allies,
yet nothing was done to assist these
States and recognit on was refused by
America because OF President w lson's
theory that the Bolsheviks would be
stimulated to fight harder to preserve
Russia intact These States are radically
inclined and are now likely to become
Bolshevistlc, many believe.
The Poles. It develops. having pushed
the Bolsheviks back forty m les a day.
asked for financial aid here recently.
as the country's military operations
recently had taken almost her last
penny. Instead Of getting any she has
been tod to demobolize and go to work.
though permitted to hold temporarily
what she has taken from the Bolshevists
One reason for this was that the Poles
we're cherishing a dream of extending
Poland over a large part OF western
Russia, 'ch wasn't regarded as a good
thing for a new nation. When the
time comes Poland will be required to
give up that part of Russia she now
occupies
All this. of course. Is encoura ging to
Lenine and Trotzky whose fortunes not
iehg ago appeared to be on the wane.
PARIS. Sept. 1s.-The Peace Council
hasn't officiaily adopted any new policy
toward Soviet Russia Yet 1t Is true that
Lenine and Trotzky have less to fear at
me hands Of the Allies than at any time
since peace negotiations were started.
here:
First that nothing is to be done to
prevent Lithuania and Esthonia from
making peace with the Lenine Govern
ment' thus removing all chance for the
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