The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-19

other hdgd, while physical force cannot
be marshalled unless all the nations are
unanimous, the believers in a league OF
powers have argued that moral force
would have an overwhelming influence
And that is exactly where the disappoint-
ment comes for the United States would
certainly have been ranged alongside
Great Britain in Insisting that the Poles
stick to their own boundaries and the
French might then not have been so
ready to encourage Polish aggression on
Russia. The moral influence on dietum
OF Great Britain and the United States,
it IS felt, would hayes caused, Poland to
desist; England, dong, with the troubles
Of her own, hasn' had al powerful
enough voice TO IlersuadeI the French TO
keep .outs7of tAe, Polish Russian quarrel.
So strong is the pfopdgandA isagainst
Bo1shevfsm; iii Frante and SO anxious
have the military lealers there been TO
range the power Of France alongside of
any nti-Bolshevik' movement whether
backed by anti.Soviet Russians or Poles
that French policy has gone forward al
most without. restraint by Great Britain
or any other major power. The French
made big loans to Czarist Russia, which
they want the Bolshevik to pay France
needs all the money she can get from
any source to help hens reconstruction
processes There is naturally a deep
feeling about the Russian question in
banking and business circles in France
but the British have sepeen inclined to
take more detached viewpoint and a
further look ahead.
Inquiry has shown that every time the
French or even the British have lent
Ro
visit. factions under Admiral Kolchak or
Gen. Denizine, and 1T is feared again
under Gen. Wrangel, the effect has been
to solidify the Russians under Soviet
control. The Bolsheviki. have been able
to claim that they alone were preserv-
ing Russian integrity and that the allies
were bent upon ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Rus
STA through support to various factions
in widely separated localities
The Poles are blamed here for having
become the aggressors against Russia
though there is also an inclination to
blame France for encouraging the Poles
to attack the Russians. The American
government is maintaining a neutral at
titude so far as possible as between the
French and the British but there is no
doubt that had America Deen a member
of the league and been able to speak her
opinions in the council Of the league, the
United States would have to a large ex-
tent shared the views of the British aud
compelled common declaration of pol
icy The recognition of the Soviet is OPP
posed because of the declaration of their
leaders in favor of carrying on a war
Of the proletariat in all countries outside
of Russia but at the same time it is the
prevalent view here that tire Bolsheviki
factions receiving money or arms
have been kept in power through excuses
of external aggression by Poland or
supposedly Russian anti Bolshevist
shevist factions receiving money or arms
from Japan or France or Britain. Po-
land is held guilty of having violated
Article TO and there is a conviction here
that she never would have dared to do
so had the league Of nations had behind
It the moral Influence Of the United
States because Poland in her anxiety to
get American and British help and sym
patty in founding her new republic would
have listened to words of warning from
the larger powers who. really gave her
independence and at the same time ne
gotiations would have been under way for
the common protection of the allied coun-
tries against any aggressions from Boil
shevst Russia.