Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-01
DANGER IN SENDING
TEUTONS AGAINST
REDS RECOGNIZED
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lost. But what will follow? The
| French and British good will toward
| Poland has expressed itself SO far in
| drafting notes of good advice. The
bottom problem is still untouched.
Troubles I'm Poland.
The red army is progressing to-
| ward Warsaw, while the Polish
| armies are turned into disorganized
bands and the Polish politicians are
! struggling among themselves in or
| der to determine whether they will
| make war with the entente backing
\ or conclude a peace following the in
| stitution of a socialist cabinet. Pill
sudski, in order to obtain new power,
| is trying to force the latter cou4se of
action.
According to many competent peo-
/ pie, the red army. if no new opposi-
| ton develops, may be expected to
| reach Warsaw by the middle of Au
gust. In order to check it and COM
| pei it to retreat. what steps are be-
| ing taken by the western powers?
They are. in fact. entirely inadequate.
According to the calculations of the
| French general staff, an expedition
! airy force of 10000 men would be
| necessary for the defeat of this Rus
| sian offensive. But, so far as is
known. not one British or French
statesman until now has dared to
propose, or even seriously to consider,
the dispatch of such a force for such
a purpose. Subordinate military and
diplomatic representatives have asked
for the transport of allied troops
which now garrison upper Silesia and
the allied detachments which now
garrison Allenstein and Marienwer-
der, in the hope that the appearance
OF the French, British and Italian
nags would be sufficient to turn the
tide. But very wisely the request
has not been granted.
Millerand and Lloyd George are
stalking everything upon the theory
that the Polish government will have
.he determination and power to re-
form its army and wage a success
ful battle in defense and that the
boishevik troops will lose efficiency
as their lines of communication are
more and more extended. Jusserand
and his colleagues, now at Warsaw.
are acting on that assumption.
Gen. Reygand's Efforts.
Gen: Reygand is trying to induce
Pllsudski to give real executive au-
thority to six hundred French officers
belonging to the military mission,
| who, so far, have played mere figure
| head parts. a fact for which their
leader Gen: Hanrys, who allowed
the Polish state. is being severely
reproached.
1 still hope that this very short
Sighted and timid policy will prove
better than is expected by compe-
tent people. but if the worst comes
to the worst. what then?
l. 1t must be admitted that that worst
will be the worst On the British side
a startling alternative course already
! has been considered seriously. This
is nothing less than intrusting Ger
many with the mission and RESPONSE
bility of protecting the rest of Eu-
rope against the Russian offenders.
At Spa Lloyd George said to Miller
and q few words which clearly point
ed to that policy. while yesterday
Winston Churchill developed the same
theme in the London newspapers.
1t is obvious that were such a
method to be adopted the Versailles
treaty would be reduced to atoms
France is resolved to reject it I'M
conditionally.
The standpoint which MIiierand
took when dealing with the matter
at Spa was that Germany must be
kept within the terms of the treaty
all the more rigidly; that the watch
on the Rhine ought to be made all
the more efficient if through disaster
in Poland the Berlin government was
enabled to increase its powers of re-
sistance against the western pow
ers.
Germany may be expected to do
everything and to do 1t successful
ly in order to curb the bolsheVik un.
dertaking. But she must not be paid
for this at the expense of treaty.
otherwise she will be given an op-
nortunitv for a huge financial black
mail which she will thoroughly ex-
Mott.