El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-18
WHY CRUSH The POLES,
IS PRESSING QUESTION


policy of terrorization in these
! regions as preparation for the con-
Z sultation Of the free viii OF the in
habitants, We have ordered plebi-
] settles in east Prussia, where the peO-
pie are Slav beyond debate, we have
/ denied the Poles control Of the main
! DanZig-W Warsaw railway
But while we have done this,
we have consented. through the
president, to drawing the sWil-
sons line in the Tyrol and in
the hiuterllnd OF Trieste In such
fashion as to put under Italian
rule, against the viii Of the pop
ulatfon. 100000 Germans and
upwards Of 100000 slovenians.
We have. then, conceded the
[ legitimacy Of Italian strategic neces-
sites, but denied them to the Poles,
although the Poles face a common
enemy, while no immediate danger
threatens the Italians.
Exactly the reason for American
hostility to the creation OF a strong
Poland, is hard to discover. 1t is
doubtful II the average American is
even aware OF the fact that he is
contributing TO the ruin OF the new
Polish state and that in his name
frontiers have been drawn and i'm
posed on the Poles. which make the
ship Of the rights OF the White Rus
sian and the Red Russian. against
the Poles. is certainly vicarious.
IusurinE New Wars.
The doctrine Of self determination,
not accepted in the least by the
British or the American nations. so
far as their own territories are con-
cerned, is being applied in the east
Of Europe in such fashion as TO in
sure new wars and new world dis
turbances- one can imagine the en-
thusiasm our ancestors would have
had. should the peace, which at last
gave US freedom have been hedEed
about by provisions for the self de-
termination OF the North American
Indian in the hinterland OF the new
country
One can Imagine what our
grandfather would have felt. had
the territory taken from Mex
ic7s after the Mexican war, been
subjected to plebiscite in which
the voters would have been, In
a majority the scattered Spanish
and half breed populations
Now between the Wilson line at
the Bug and the old Polish frontier
Of 1888, before the second partition.
laying aside the Lithuanian regions,
there Is debatable land. war swept
and Inhabited by mixed races, in
which the Polish element, concededly
in the minority. Is still the ruling
and the educated class. without this
land Poland il doomed to ultimate
destruction. to be ground TO pieces
between the German and Russian
millstones- And II the Poles are now
compelled to evacuate this region, il
will serve as the basis for imme-
date bolshevist attacks
America Not Helped
Certainly no American interest is
served in the extinction Of Poland,
no American end is advanced BY
opening the road for boIshevism, or
for Russian nationalism to return 70
Warsaw. If sentimental considera-
lions no longer have material
weight still it is worth recalling that
IN the American revolution, Poles
played a distinguished and useful
part And Of which may not be an
argument for our supporting Poland
by arms, but is II not a reason for
preferring not to interfere in Poland
TO the ruin Of the new natiOn2
At all events Americans should
understand that American policy.
with British, explains the newest
bolshevist invasion Of Poland -
Copyrighted, 1920, by the Mcclure
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