The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-15
pEAcE aEEMa NEAR.

FEACE SEEMS MEAN.
While seventeen wars are stlll IL
progress In Europe and Asia there are
signs that peace at last is near at hand
Yesterday NJ. Jore. the head OF the
bolshevik delegation, arrived at Riga
and very soon the conference between
the Russians and Poles. which was ad-
journed from Minsk. will be resumed
Not much progress was made at Minsk
except that the Lenine government, at
the request OF Great Britain, agreed not
to press the demand that an army OF
Polish workmen be organized. The
Moscow government also stated that
tho other terms proposed were not in
any sense an ultimatum.
Another event OF grave Importance
Is the recent conference between Pre-
miers Giollotti and Millerand at Geneva.
The italian has returned to power
since the war. He was the paoifst
leader in Italy and opposed that coun-
try's entry into the war,
Millerand succeeded Clemenceau,
whose policy was for an imperialistic
France.
The outbreak OF italian worlklngmen,
following the recent convention OF Brit
ish labor In which peace was insisted
on, is indicative that the masses in
Europe will not stand for further blood
shed.
The one thing agreed upon by Mil
lerand and Giolotti was that peace must
be brought about.
After the recent Victory OF the Poles,
when Warsaw was saved, Secretary OF
State Colby warned them that they
must not advance further than the
photographic frontier. Since then the
bolsheviks have recognized for another
attack, and the armies are facing each
other in force. so neither can dictate
terms as a victor. This will probably
lead to more enduring peace settle
ment.
The Springfield Republicans military
expert Analyses the situation very
cogently In the following:
What course the great powers will
take can perhaps be guessed after the
OF an armistice, II that can
be effected. In Paris tho feeling pre-
walls that the fighting IL practically
over, but Warsaw, perhaps with n pur-
pose. sends out news OF n more alarm
Ing sort. putting particular stress on an
alleged entente between LithuanIa and
Russia and expressing fear that II will
be necessary to declare war on Lithu-
ania. We may still hope, however. that |
more peaceful policies will prevail and |
indeed the military situation even after |
Gen. Weygands brilliant victory does
not Justify Poland In a needless pro- |
longation Of hostilities. That victory |
proved much less decisive than had been |
hoped, and the reports Of Warsaw that |
he dashlng Russian cavalry leader
Budenny had been surrounded and his |
army anrihllated proved erroneous. BY |
,no OF his more brilliant and daring
moves he not only eluded capture but |
inflicted a Parthian blow as he retired:
'etirement in Itself is OF no great sig
lifcance in the case OF cavalry, and tho |
orrltory In which he was operating was |
1ot territory which Russia meant to |
teep. On the whole the balance OF for
une II MS favorable as It has beon Mt |
my time for the negotiation OF n fair
'eace, neither side assuming to dictate
o the other as victor to vanduished.
1T Ia, mistake TO overstress the
merely military side Of the fighting in
'astern Europe. and to this cause may
- traced many misapprehenslons and
lutte needless lurches from an excessive
optimism to an uniustifed pessimism or
Vice versa. When tho soviet forces have
had little success such n cry OF alarm |
ms been raised that ono might suppose
IN invlncble host OF millions OF reds
Ilready at the Rhine at such times we
ave been told Of the Napoleonlc genius
nd ambition OF Trotzky and have been
'arned that civilization ia In peril. But
% sooner does soviet army meet with
reverse, such MS that lately suffered
n the Warsaw front, than we are as
ured that the bolshevist hogey and tho
nyth of Trotzky's Napoleonio genius
ave been dispelled for good These
iolent fluctuations OF Judgment. which |
re perhaps due to our greater familiar
~ with the very different conditions
hat prevailed on tho western front are ,
OF warranted by the comparatively
,inor operations In eastern Europe"
Since the outbreak between tho !
iithuanIans and the Poles It would not ,
q surprising II the former should be !
'und In alliance with the Russians,