El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-11
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us. HELP; WILL
ACCEPTPOICY
By JOHN LLOYD BALDERSON,
fConfInued iron. M u

AOOEH HOlIO I
By JOHN LLOYD BALDERsON.
CContiaued from pase II
was sent at this critical instant.
France saw her chance, and grabbed
In procIaiming her soHdity with
America on the Russian question,
France, however. did so with~many
mental reservations II was soon
made clear from Washington that we
have no intention Of recognizinE
Wrangle. and rather disapprove that
step. What is Of vastly greater i'm
pOrtance, the state department indi-
Gated that unless France accepted the
principle OF the integrity OF Russia.
the viewpoints OF the countries were
not identical
Behind the scenes IN Paris for the
past week. ever since that intimation
was received, there has been anxious
debate. For unrealized by the public
Of any nation, there turks In that
phrase Integrity OF Russia" an issue
big enough TO set the world ablaze
some day, and big enough now TO linz
up the great powers who fought TO-
Eether against Germany into opposite
camps.
Gauntlet to England and Japan.
The phrase integrity Of Russia,
which America now champions
throws down the gauntlet to England
and Japan In maintaining such a
policy, the United States has hitherto
stood alone. Wilson and Colby have
seizedthe moment OF the French cry
FOR help on the issue OF Poland and
OF bolshevik recognition TO propose a
bargain
France cried IN effect 70 America.
England has abandoned Poland II
H.
war. England wants to make peace
with the bolshevika. II she does Rus
STA viii never recover and France viii
soon be crushed by a bolshevik-Ger-
man alliance, or by Germany alone"
Russia IL potentially the greatest
nation on earth Who can expect her
to sit stln under this insrlting. de-
grading and Gripping situation that
viii confront her when her present
agony IS over2 What can possibly De
expected but a great world cOnVul-
sion IA which Germany. Of course, VIII
ally herself with Russia and the two
crushed and beaten nations turn on
England and Japan2 American policy.
designed solely TO prevent this terri
bic prospect desires Russia's heritage
TO be kept for her in trust We want
England 70 realize and acknowledge
that Russia went down after she had
made our common victory possible BY
her efforts. and not TO despol the
PROSTATE giant Il isn't good ethics,
and it's also Sad policy.
As France Sees It.
French policy has all along object
ed 70 the British sustaining the Bal
tic states. and has insisted that they
ought to be handed back 70 a regen-
Grated Russia: that Russia ought III
timately to get the Dardaneles. snd
a considerable part OF what Englan1
not OF course. what trance-has
taken in Asia Minor
But until the last few days France
was IN no mood 20 challenge her ally
across the channel on this stupendous
question
French statesmen believe that Rus
STA. when she does return to sanity,
viii be filled with rage and bitter
ness against her allies Tor the way
they have treated her badly. This
worries France, who would like 20
have Russia some day for her ally
again against the overloaded dan
ger OF the Rhine.
Now that the United States has for
n4aIIy and publicly announced Its inter
est in the Integrity OF Russia"
France appears to have given her ad-
herence- Just what this means Il Is
too soon to Judge The Quai d'Orsay
Is tricky and may merely intend 70
whisper 70 Downing street, America
is against your Russian policy. she
wants US to join her Between Us We
can make things very awkward for
you So you'd better give u our way
in Poland. let US continue TO try 70
overthrow the boisheviks, and be less
selfish Is Syria II you'u do these
things wen not bother more about
this integrity OF Russia
L. s. Too EVfshy-Washy.
Yesterday a Frenchman OF Import
ance whom I was trying to sound on
these high matters suddenly took 20
cific. and not the Baltic OF the Oar
danelles, that interests your he
aslUd. provided you could scare
England by these pronouucements IN
to bringing pressure on Japan to keen
out OF Siberia. wouldn't you promptly
forget about the integrity OF Rus
sian in EuropeE And after I had
told him I didn't know, he said ab-
ruptly, your policy has no con-
tiIfuity. We never can bank on Z.
What view Of the integrity OF Russia
can we expect from the white house
after next March2 VIII you get Is
to commit ourselves against England
and then leave US in the lurchF'
Not in Russia only. but in the other
smaller Slav nations, Czecho- Slova-
kla and Jugo-Slayia and Bulgaria, Is
the feeling growing that Britain has
set out TO choke the Slav races 20
death and take their heritage for her
self. This explains why no help
against the bolsheviks can be OBJ
tanned from any OF these countries
A prominent Jugo-Slav recently ex-
pressed his opinion as follows;
StranglinE the sInvs-
The Russian nation collapsed, but
not before It had saved Britain and
France and these then proceeded to
dismember Russia and imprison the
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