The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-08-07
EDITORIALS;
FIGHTING FOR A CAUSE

Collapse of the Polish defence against Russian
aggression is natural sequence of the high handed
way in which Poland set about ignoring the terri
torial arrangement made at the Treaty of Versailles.
providing for creation of free and independent
Poland, and giving the new government dominion
over territories naturally Polish in population,
thought and aspiration But not satisfied with that
the Poles desired extend their dominion eastward to
include areas that were once under sway of the
ancient Poland that existed before successive parti
lions Of the former kingdom of Poland between Rus
STA, Prussia and Austria in the latter part of the
Eighteenth Century. While there were Poles in the
lands sought to conquer the great Of their
population were Ukranians and of other stock alien
to the Polish nation who under the doctrine of self
determination were fully entitled to autonomy and
self government as the Poles.
Probably there would have been no effort to
Polish ambition to seek 10 spread over terri
tories held once under Polish sway (for but short
period only, had not the Allies conceived an idea
that Poland should serve as buffer state to protect
Western Europe from spread Of Russian bolshevism;
to do which it maintained that Poland must have
a more strategic position by extending her eastern
boundaries to include those ancient territories Kings
of Poland had held at one time So the Allies Eng
land, France and italy, are accused of having en-
couraged Poland secretly, to make invasion east
ward, and set up her sway, authority and military
power closer to Russia whence feared an rrupton
like that of France after the Revolution of 1892
when Republican armies bearing aloft the eagles of
France overran all Europe, developing in Napoleon
military genius whose very existence was menace
TO long established conditions.
The League of Nations. such as it is is credited
with having encouraged Poland in her attempt to
spread hel territories and extend her boundaries to
embrace ether areas and povnces beside those given
autonomy by the Treaty at Versailles; and in her
present straits Poland is appealing to the League to
help her out of the desperate situation in which she
finds herself.
At first Poland was successful in her onset east
ward, and her victorious armies overran the terri
tories claimed. But in doing SC there was aroused
the very power that Poland was to fend off from
Western Europe; and bolshevist Russia took up the
gage of battle against the ambitious invaders The
result has been that Poland has been pushed back
from the provinces she overran and bolshevist Rus
sian armies within striking distance of the Polish
capital-Warsaw
Success OF the Russians and their sweep into
Poland recalls the almost unbroken series of sue
cesses that attended the republican armies of France
after the French Revolution. A republic in France
was not to be tolerated. the rest of Europe under
took t. put down the new upsta"t government But
trained and veteran troops from Austria Prussia
and Britain, were swept from the field by the en-
thusiastc levles that thronged to The standards of
imperilled France; and there was developed cloud
of young and brilliant military commanders Who I'M
der lead of Napoleon first under the consulate then
under the Empire, revoutonizcd the art of war; and
partitioned Europe to suit their ambitions.
Why such remarkable adaptabilitv of unframed
men to succeed in the art of Wal! Boil htVis armies
invading Poland and threatening Western
Europe, to great extent Of the same SOL
diers who failed in the face of German and Austrian
in 1867. It is true that they not fight
ing the splendid military machines that the Teutons
sent against them; but against such opponents
it is possible they might prove lust as effective as
against the Poles Is it not because the Russians,