Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-08-07
Indications No ..e That US.
Government Is Seeking Way
To Assist Poland Without
Congressional Action.
EXPECT PRESIDENT TO
TAKE Definite STAND
Confers With Department Of
State Officials Concerning
Situation - May Present
Views to Allied Powers.
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.

by AK Hulk SEANS HENNlNG.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 6.-An intir1a-
ton that the president soon may de-
clare his views on the question of
saving Poland from soviet Russia
was given today, following a confer
ence on the question between Mr..
Wilson, Secretary of State Colby
and Undersecretary of State Davis.
The president called in the two
officials to advise him of the latest
developments in the plans of the al
lies for halting the Russo-P Polish
war and of the extent to which the
United States might aid them IN
averting a Polish catastrophe.
1t was indicated that the president
is considering the presentation to
France and England of his views on
the policy to be adopted, but that he
had not fully determined what sug-
gestions he would make. Specula-
ton of the possibilities in official
circles run all the way from a pro-
posal by the president that the ma
chinery of the league of nations be
set in motion to stop the war, to the
suggestion that Mr.. Wilson may re-
convene congress in special session
to consider means of furnishing ef-
fective aid to Poland.
Hint Toward Course.
Newspaper correspondents were
told today by officials that they had
taken too literally what was said
concerning the apparent inability Of
the United States government to af-
ford any assistance whatever to
Poland, directly or indirectly, with
out the authority of congress. which
will not assemble until December un-
less the president proclaims an extra
session. No illuminating explana-
ton of this hin. was offered. but it
was construed as plain intimation
that the government was still seek
ing means OF aiding the Polish au-
thor:ties without ngressional au-
thority, and was hopeful of finding
a way. An active exchange of views
between the United States and Eu-
ropcan powers over the Polish situa-
ton appears to. be in progress.
I The success of the red army in
Poland has had the effect of encour-
aging the bolshevist military forces
elsewhere to attempt new conquests.
Today the state department received
dispatches telling of an advance Of
soviet forces in Persia toward Tabriz
and Kazbin. Teheran. the Persian
capital, is menaced, and the shan
and his government are preparing to
flee.
Hope to Check Drive.
One of the dispatches came from
the American minister at Teheran,
John L. Caldwell, in which he said
that, while the soviet army was ad-
vancing on Tabriz and the capital,
the commanders of the mixed British
and French forces hope to check it.
The shah's government, Minister
Caldwell said, was contemplating
flight southwark. The foreign lera-
tions expected to accompany the
government, it was stated. Conf
dence expressed by the British mill
tary authorities was not shared by
the public, according to Mr.. Cald-
we'll.
The administration attitude to-
ward affairs in eastern Europe is en-
veloped in fog, the only certainty be-
ing that the president is. still un-
alterably opposed to recognizing or
giving aid and comfort to the Rus
sian bolsheviki, whom he regards as
misrepresenting the Russian peo-
pie. In his recent note to Japan
protesting against. occupation of the
Russian half of Saghalien island Mr..
Wilson said that Japan, the United
States, Great Britain, France and
Italy must consider themselves The
trustees of Russian territory until a
government representative of the
Russian people had been established
In accord with this policy, the
president has declined to recognize
the little Baltic republics shorn from
Russia. Nor did he register a pro-
test against the Polish offensive
against the bolsheviki when it was
undertaken several months ago or
indicate in any public way the opin-
ion that the league of nations ought
to have invoked the processes of the
covenant to restore peace.