Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-08
FRANCE WONDERS
IF j. s. WILL AID
IN POLISH CRISIS
Leaders Are Specializing as
to Whether Sanction of
Congress Is Needed.
BY PERTINAX.
Henri Geraud. Editor of Echo de Paris.

thenfl Geraud. Editor Of Echo de Paris.D
(By cable to The Star. Copyright. 1s2o.)
PARIS. August There is in
tense interest here in cabled news
from the United States that the Of
ficials of the American government
are profoundly stirred by the plight
Of Poland
Reports OF sentiment in favor of
American military assistance to Po-
land are given headlines in the
French press. and even emphasis in
the minds of French statesmen.
Speculation is general as to wheth-
er the American government could
act without the special sanction of
Congress. It is felt that the dis
agreements between the President
and the Senate with fegard to the
peace treaty easily might come home
to roost now to the misfortune of
the world
Here again arises evidence of the
unsatisfactory nature of the peace
signed at Versailles. Many express
fear that by the time this dispatch
is printed in America the boIsheyists
Will be in possession of Warsaw,
and no foreboding could be more
gloomy for the future
Where Brightest HOPE Lies.
All search for the relationship of
Germany to sthis extraordinary sit
uation. None fails to find it. Bright
est hope, if any may be said to exist,
lies in the general belief that, while
the Russian army and the bolshevist
government appear to be working
in complete harmony, their aims
really widely differ. The Russian
army, which as write threatens
Warsaw. is not. as a matter of fact,
fully in sympathy with Sthe soviet
government. and this very fully
understood in Fra7.
The army is refuge of many
men Of the ol, -egime and command
ed by a prince. Tougachewski is an
ex-officer of the regiment of the
Semenovski Guard, and surely wishes
to put Poland, Russia's traditional
enemy. under the yoke of the soviet
commissioners less than to establish
at Warsaw, while the bolshevists are
occupied with their communist cru
sade. post between Russia and
western Europe. possibly for future
use.
The soviets. in the meantime, hope
through a victory over Poland to
influence Czechoslovakia, Austria,
Hungary and Rumania. all powers
which barely are convalescent or in
process of such formation as in the
near future will permit convalescence.
And, established at Warsaw, these
soviet forces will be within reach
of Germany, ready to aid a COM
munist revolution if one should real
ly start in the Teutonic republic. or.
if this does not occur, to establish
a temporary understanding with the
nationalists in order to recommence
war against the allied powers.
Accomplished by Germans.
This makes the situation of the al
lies very difficult and there now can
he no doubt that this is exactly what
has been intended and accomplished
ly by German rather than by Rus
sian brains.
If the soviets force Poland to capt.
ulate, the German government, which
has proclaimed its neutrality only in
order that when the time came it
might sell it at a high price, will not
fail to declare itself the only guard
ian of order capable of stopping the
advance of the bolshevist scourge
throughout Europe.
The German politicians and military
leaders have not failed to realize that
the question of an armistice between
Russia and Poland might be used as
a tool for reopening the whole ques-
ton of the complete disarmament.
Reopen this today. and tomorrow the
way will be quite clear for the re-
opening of all the other questions
which Germany most desires to sub
nit to new negotiations, as, for in
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