Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-25

Y I ish lines. breaking both
north and south. the reds
in Warsaw announcing definite plans
for the bolshevization of the con-
quered nation, and with this posi-
bility looming up as an immediate
prospect, the possible potential dan
gers to astern Europe. of which
have written in the past. have reached
a crisis.
Poland is in deadly peril.
The allies have promised aid.
! But in this promise of aid the allied
powers of Europe are in the act of
locking the door of the stable after
the horse has been stolen. OF course,
Poland is yet to be conquered Much
must be expected of that imperisha-
BILE nationalistic spirit which mas
borne the Poles through centuries OF
trying vicissitudes. Polish armies
may be expected to battle TO the death
| if it is necessary. but Polands prop
| lem today rests not in her Willingness
to do. but in her incapacity. and mere
| in rests the great allied sin-for II Is
| a sin-one of procrastlnauoh
Could Have Avoided Danger.
| Had the European nations. notably
IGreat Britain and France. after Great
| ing Poland. set about to strengthen
| her military arm to make absolutely
| certain the stability of the newly
created nation, Poland today Wouiu
not be in danger. Furthermore, 70
land today would stand in the ignt
of deliverer of countless hundreds OF
thousands of people in the oie
| and the former regions OF
| who today are attempting TO steer
| their own ships Of state In the baihah
peninsula
| Poland has been accused of being
militaristic; of having brought hef
present peril upon herself by virtue Oh
her continued warfare on me oo 5o &c
yiks in the face of advice not 10 90 50,
Though there may be dispute as 10
the wisdom of the Polish offensive
against the bolsheviks, the 1act heN
ertheless remains that this oHensiNe
was designed to accomplish the Sers
uurposes which dominated the allies
when they set forth the principle OF
elf-definition of peoples. Those re
gions. principally the Ukraine, whlcn
| Poland sought to emancipate from
bolshevik rule would have peen LOT
ever thankful had Polish efforts sue
ceeded, but. as a matter OF Iact' lhese
efforts were foredoomed to failure Tor
one particular reason, and that-the
allies failure to properly support anu
organize the embryonic Poland ere
! ated in the Versailles peace confer
ence.
French Back Poles.
The French, it may be stated. are
the only people who have consistently
/ lent support to Poland, even oVerrid-
| ing tacit diplomatic agreements ell
fected by Lloyd George, Clemenceau
and Millerand in the supreme council
parleys France never has been Will
| ing to abandon Poland, but the course
of the French government necessarily
| has been more or less secretive, for,
owing to peculiar domestic and po-
llitical conditions within France. this
government could not openly send
military forces and arms to the Poles
| for their campaigns against the Dol
sheviks. which incidentally eventual .
| ly would rebound to the economic and
! financial interests of France.
| British support of Polish aspirations
has been of negligible quantity. The
Italians have assisted, but this has
! been more through Individual effort
THAN national, inasmuch as the Italian
government has \been much in the
same position as France in regard to
danger from the radicals
All efforts of various countries to
assist the Poles even in small meas
ure constantly have been circum-
| scribed by the activities of bolshe-
| visit sympathiZerS within the countries
themselves. for many a shipment of
arms and munitions to the Poles has
| been diverted and other assistance
miSdirected.
| But this has been largely due to
f! the fact that neither of the European
allied countries has grasped the situa-
ton firmly in hand.
AT no time have the premierS and