South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-08-12
POLAND WILL
REQUEST AID
FROM AMERICA
NJ mister Lubermirski Ex.
presses Satisfaction With
L. S. Note to Italy.
By Associated Press :

BY Associated Press:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-Poland,
its back 10 the wall in its fight
against soviet Russia, will ask i'm
mediate material aid OF rhe United
states. IL was announced Wedre sday
by Prince LubermirSki. the Polish
minister. More than that, il will
seek 10 develop precisely what the
American government meant bv the
announcement in its note Of Tues
day 10 the Italian government that
IL would employ ALI available
means 10 maintain Q free Poland.
Expressing complete satisfaction
with the Am crican note, the minister
declared he was convinced that il
would inspire Poland with n new
spirit of hope" He added that his
country was sorely in need Of war
materials of all kinds and that II
probably would first seek credits
from the United States with which
TO purchase them.
Publish Proclamation.
simultaneously with the ministers s
announcement, the legation made
public proclamation issued by the
Polish council Of national defense
new world war hangs over TIE
world" and that if Poland should
be crushed by the bolsaeviki il
would be due TO the Indifference
OF a world which calls itself dem,-
O"tltic."
Copies Of the American note 10
italy, il was said Wednesday at the
stale department, have been deliver
ed TO the representatives of the al
lied and associated powers and dis
trihuted 10 all the news centers of
I the world, promising Its widest dis
seminauon, even in Russia itself.
Diplomats generally regarded the
document as having u thrce-fold
! purpose:
First, the extension of moral
support 10 the Polish government
and people.
Second, an appeal to the masses in
! Rus sla 10 throw off the bolshevik
yoke and establish a constitutional,
government.
Third, the Influencing OF other
nations 10 refrain from recognition
/ OF the soviet regime.
lnfOTn4l Conversations.
The dispatch of the note 10 Italy
/ followed a series OF informal con
.
/ Tor several weeks between officials
/ Of the state department and tho
/ Italian embassy. Early in the course
| OF the negotiations between the en-
l tente powers preliminary to the
/ Hythe conference between Premiers
| Lloyd George ard Millerand. the
| Italian government made it known
! that under no circumstances would
/ II lee ready TO enter into any engage
I ment to go to war with soviet Rus.
\ Sia.
Having thus by its own act ex.
/ cluded itself from participation III
the Hythe conference, the Italiar
I government was said TO have natur.
4 ally turned towards America as the
q one great power associated with
( Italy in the war which had not par.
ucipated in the division Of Russian
! territory nor committed itself C
( hostile acts against the bolsheviki
Italians Undecided
/ In Italian circles Wednesday Il
was declared that, regardless of tn,
/ heavy pressure eXerted by the Ital
ian socialist party and the WOrkrnar
/ in favor Of the establishment O..
friendly relations with the soviet re
glme, the Italian government IN,
not finally decided upon O. line o
policy beyond the determination no
| TO be forced into the war with Rus
sin. While Italy had sent a COM
| mission 10 Moscow and was about [,
receive soviet commission il
! Rome, it was explained that the Dur
/ pose was simply TO ascertain b,
original investigation the exac
| conditions prevailing in Russia an,
/ that the Italian government had no
committed itself 10 a political recog
| milton Of che Leninc administration
All these matters had been unde
informal discussion DetN cen tn,
state department and the italian
! embassy, which had kept its gov
! ernmcnt informed. and it final,
! was concluded that the time wa
ripe to gather up the various phase
Of the cor2plex subject in the shap,
! Of a formal note definitely express
ing the position OF the United States