The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-08-13

office 1t was semi-officially admit
ted that a blockade of Germany
would be futile measure.
Berlin, Aug. 10-The German gov
eminent is awaiting with high inter-
est the arrival here of Wigdor Kopp,
the Soviet representative to Germany
from Moscow. He is en- route from
the Russian capital and is expected to
arrive Saturday, altho there is a pos
sibility that he can get here Friday.
He is known to be bringing highly
important communications and per-
haps history-making decisions by the
Soviet government. With his return to
Berlin the Russo-German relations
will become more clearly defined.
with all indications pointing to the
entering on a distinctly new stage.
What that stage will be and how
much of it will become public will de-
pend on the conversations between
Premiers Lloyd George and Miller
and. on the one hand, and on the at
titude of the French toward Germany,
on the other.
With the conversations between the
premiers, with the British conferences
between NJ. Krassin and M. Kameneff
and the political winking between
Berlin and Moscow, which has long
since passed the filtration stage, and
with the possibility of little talk be-
tween the German foreign minister,
Dr. Simons, and Premier Lloyd
George when they take their vaca-
tions in Switzerland, comes the pro-
things of far-reaching significance to
history.
In spite of all the dangers attend
ant on the several points of high ten
sion in the last ten days, and the I'M
certainties, there is, for the first time
since the armistice, something like a
feeling of satisfaction in Germany,
to the assurance that her position is
strong and is getting stronger daily,
and that she is still in the European
political ring.
That feeling has been instilled by
the Russian defeat of Poland, the
proximity Of the Russian armies to
Germany and the fact that the enten-
tie seemed unable to do anything
against Russia, together with the re-
marKahls unanimity of the German
political parties from the Communists
to the Reactionaries if it becomes ne
cessery Ia fight against an allied vio-
lation of German neutrality
1t is openly professed that there is
no fear Of blackade, as the harvest
is good. 1t is also professed that
Great Britain knows full we'll that a
blockade would automatically throw
Russia and Germany together.
The demands, openly voiced in the
French press, for the occupation or
the Ruhr Valley, have met with the
assertion that the French would not
get ton of coal If this occurred, and
that. with the aid of Russia, Germany
would again obtain the upper Silesian
mines.
May Reject Intervention.
Just as the Soviets rejected British
Intervention and insisted that the
Russo-Polish peace negotiations were
family affair and nobody else's
business, there is a belief here that
Moscow will take similar stand in
shaping Russo German relations.
1t is evident on every hand that the
allies, by making Germany knuckle
down at the Spa conference, instilled
the thought in wide circles. hitherto
lantagonistic, that there are worse
evils than a condition of quasi Boil
shevism.
Thru playing up the press reports
of the cruelties visited on the Ger
mans in the East by the Poles. and
dwelling on the occupation of Saar
by the French, with alleged atrocities
perpetrated by the colored troops,
strong feeling is being built up. Even
the Independent Socialists, who have
heretofore been of the most friendly
feelings toward France, have been
forced by the attitude of Moscow to