El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-31

situation, to see Poland destroyed.
She needs her old provinces.
Thus. whatever their other differ
J ences. the bolshevists and the Ger
mans. without regard to party fac
{ ton. political or religious difference.
: have a common objective, the de-
. struction Of Poland. For the boil
shevists- the elimination OF Poland
J would remove the only army In their
I pathway. the sole menace 70 their
/ mastery Of Russia and their future
fexpansion into that chaos of hunger
I smitten districts which has replaced
! the comparative order Of the old
J Hansburg empire
The Germans believe that. once
I they have crushed Poland and re-
| stored their old unity, they can cope
with the bolshevists; they can re-
! organfze Russia. The bOlshevists be-
lieve that with Poland down. they
Z can sweep westward, at least to the
Rhine and the French Alps. enlist
I ing the elements of disorder and Of
anarchy in Germany, Austria Hun
gary and Italy.
But for, both. the first step "a
the destruction Of Poland And
In the present state OF allied pol
icy who can doubt that Poland
Is dOOmedf
Let Us suppose that Poland. with
out effective aid from the western
nations succumbs to Russian attack.
remembering that Il IS against Poland
that the next holshevist assault viii
infallibly be directed; what then2
Obviously there viii remain only the
Czecho-Slovak state as a partial bar
rier between the holshevist and the
hopeless and well nigh insane popu-
lation OF Austrian on the north and
the hardly less disturbed peoples OF
Hungary on the south. And TO aid
the CZechs the allies VIII have no
other chance than the dispatch OF
troops across Germany.
May Be Able TO Resist
1t may be that in this situation
Germany will be able to resist boil
shevism; Il may be that she viii not
succumb, that the elements Of unrest
and disorder viii continue TO be i'm
portant, but this means that the mill
tary and junker elements. regaining
control, called TO power by the Ger
man people to protect them from the
eastern danger, viii create new
armies fight a new war. probably
victorious, but carrying with II a
grave menace to the west and per
uanent cessation OF any payment OF
indemnities. for the western nations
viii be compelled % forego the pay
ment Of monies while Germany Is
fighting a bolshevist menace. only
less grave for them than for her
and bound TO be almost fatal. If Ger
many IS conquered
II Germany be beaten. bOlShev-
ism will arrive uf the Rhine and
the Alps. Mt the frontiers OF Italy
and OF France. and the domestic
condition OF Italy makes such
circumstance Erurely disquiefinE.
But II Germany is successful, she
viii have forged new weapons. opened
the way TO the commercial eXplOita-
ton OF Russia and escaped from that
state OF military impotence. which
makes her resistance 10 allied de-
mands purely formal at the present
hour.
Either way. too. the danger. for
America IS rateut- We have been
going through a stage Of national ap-
prehension. resulting from the rela-
lively restricted operations Of a hand
ful OF reds representing a Russian
anarchy still far removed from our
shores But what would be the situa-
ton IL bolshevism should sweep all
over central Eurone2 What II the
armies OF Trotzlzv and Lenine should
presently acquire the cohesion neces-
sary to repeat the achievements OF
the armies OF revolutionary France2
Does anyone suppose that the domes-
tic manifestations would be less dis
turbing than now
Could L. 8. ESCAPED
Would We be able permanently to
escape the duty Of joining with Brit
ain and France in a new struggle
against a foe. far more menacing than
Germany was, against a doctrine far
more destructive Of our ideas and
our civilization than the Prussian2
And II GERMANY were successful7
Obviously the result would be the
renaissance of the old Prussian ideal.
for only force could defeat bolshev-
ism and the German military leaders,
restored TO national favor by fresh
victories would infallibly seek to re-
gain their old situation on the Rhine
and the Moselle. once they had estab-
lished Il on the Vistula- For Britain
and for France this would mean the
threat OF 1914 20 times magnified-
Could we permit France and Britain
TO be destroyed. TO pass under the
German yoke, as Germany and Aus
tria passed under the NaDoleonic yoke
a little more than a century ago2
II we id we shOuId find our
selves like Britain in the earlier
ern. engaged single handed in
struggle against the continent OF
Europe, with practically no ally.
American newspapers are filled
with endless columns OF discussion OF
the menace constituted by the pres
ence IN this country OF few hundred
Russian reds, hut the press and the
public men alike seem aDathetic in
the presence Of the rapid expansion
Of the world area Actually dominated
by leaders. who profess the same doc
trine as our handful Of domestic reds.
and the addition Of millions 10 their
empire. out Of whom they win be able
TO fashion armies in the future to
carry on that war their American
agents never hesitate to proclaim
Actually the world situation at the
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