The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-12

Expressing complete satisfaction with the note, the minister declared he was convinced that it would inspire Poland with a new spirit of hope. He added that his country was sorely in need of war materials of all kinds ant that it probably would first seek cred it's from the United States with whicf. to purchase them.
 Simultaneously with the minis-
 ter's announcement. the legation
 made public proclamation issued
 by the Polish council of national
 defense at Warsaw warning the na-
 ti0ns that "new world war hangs
 over the world, and that if Po-
 land should be crushed by the boI-
 shevili it would he due to 'sthe
 indifference of world which calls
 itself democratic."
 Copies of.the American note to Italy 1t was said today at the state depart ment, have been delivered to the rep resentatives of the allied and associated governments and distributed to all the news centers of the world, promising its widest dissemination, even in Rus sia itself. Diplomats generally re- Garded the document as having a three-f fold purpose:
 First-The extension of moral
 support to the Polish government
 and people.
 Second-An appeal to the masses
 in Russia to throw off the boIske-
 vik yoke md establish constitu-
 tfonaI government.
 Thfrd-The influencing of other
 nations to refrain from recognition
 of the soviet regime.
 The dispatch of the note to Italy fol. lowed series of informal conversations that had been in progress for several weeks between officials of the state de- partment and the Italian embassy. Early in the course of the negotiations be- tween the entente powers. preliminary to the Hythe conference between Pfenlfcrs Lloyd George and Mlllerand, the Italian government had made it known that un- der no circumstances would 1t be ready to enter into any engagement to go 70 war with soviet Russia
 TURNED TO AMERICA
 Having thus by it's own act excluded itself from participation in the Hythe conference, the Italian government was said to have naturally turned towards America as the one great power assoei- ated with Italy in the war which had not participated in the division of Rug sian territory nor committed itself to hostile acts against the bolsheviki.
 In Italian circles today it was declared that regardless of the heavy pressure ex-  the workmen in favor of the establish nent of friendly relations with the soviet regime, the Italian government had not finally decided upon line of policy be- yond the determination not to be forced into war with Russia. While Italy had sent commission to Moscow and was about to receive a soviet commission ia Rome. it was explained that the purposs } was simply to ascertain by original inves- tigation the exact conditions prevailing in Russia, and that the Italian govern ment had not committed itself to po- Htical recognition of the Lenine admth- istration.
 All these matters had been under in- formal discussion befort the state de- partment and the Italian embassy which had kept it's government informed. and it finally was concluded that the time was ripe to gather up the various phases Of the complex subject in the shape of a formal note definitely expressing the po- sition of the United States.
 GREAT RESULTS
 In diplomatic circles here it is expected
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