Omaha daily bee., 1920-08-05
ALLIES May
SEND TROOPS
TO POLAND
Premiers Lloyd George and
MiIIerand Hold Long Phone
Conference Over Situation
! France Consults U. S.
CONDITIONS GROWING
MORE SERIOUS DAILY
Nothing Short Of Quick Action
BY Other Nations Can Save
New Republic From Sweep
Of BoIshevik Armies.


Of BoIshevik Armies.
New York Times Chicago Tribune Cable.
Copyright, 1920.
London, Aug. 4.-Lloyd George
and Millerand held a long tele-
phone conversation today over the
Polish situation and it is under
stood the two premiers may hold
a meeting soon to talk over the
situation. 1t is rumored the allies
plan to send six divisions to Po-
land.
lie Matin learns that the French
government is consulting the
American government on the Pol
ish situation.
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Aug. 4.-With the
Russian army sweeping down upon
Warsaw and refusing an armistice,
Poland is in a desperate plight. APP
parently nothing short of effective
Intervention by Great Britain, France
and Italy can save the little republic.
to which independence was restored
by the Versailles treaty, from virtual
conquest by soviet Russia.
If the bolsheviki are enabled to
work there without hindrance they
not only will dictate territorial
settlement favorable to Russia and
unfavorable to the Poles, but will es-
tablish a soviet form of government
in what they leave of the Polish
state. That would bring bolshevism
another step nearer to western Eu-
rope.
While Senator King of Utah, DEM
ocrat, is urgingsthe president to re-
convene congress for the considera-
ton of the extension of American
aid to Poland, Mr.. Wilson, it was
learned today, has reached no def
mite decision concerning what the
United States can or ought to do
under the circumstances. So far, the
president has done nothingg beyond
discussing the situation with the
British government with view to
learning what step the allies are dis
posed to take to save Poland from
the bolshevik menace.
Question About Authority.
There are 10000 American troops
on the Rhine but there is grave
question that the president has
authority, even under his existing
war powers, to dispatch American
soldiers either from Germany or the
United States, to the aid Of Poland,
without the express direction of
congress. When it appeared likely
that the soviet government would
accept the Polish plea for an armis-
tice, the attention of the administra-
tfon was focused on the British pro-
posal of a conference between the
allies and the Russians in London
to settle not only relations between
the soviet government and the allies
but Polish peace. The president
communicated to England his desire
that America be represented in this
conference by an observer, though
not an acSge participant in the ne
gotiations. This plan has been
thrown into the background by the
refusal of the bolsheviki to consent
to an armistice with Poland. :
Close associates of the president
say he feels greatly embarrassed by
the failure of the United States to
Join the league of nations. Had
America been member, the presi-
dent, it is stated, would have caused
the league to intervene months ago
ior the settlement of the Russo-Pol-
ish war. He blames the senate for
tying his hands in this respect by its
failure to ratify the covenant and
takes unto himself no blame for
blocking ratification with reserva-
tons.
Not Question of League.
In regard othe failure of the
league to take cognizance of the Rus
so-Polish war. Viscount Gray, form
erly British foreign minister and
more recently British ambassador to
the United States, says in a letter
to Lord Robert Cecil:
THE league of nations had nothing
to do with the Russian Polish war
and it is crime against the league
and it's members to charge it with
responsibility when the responsibility
clearly did not rest with the league,
but with individual governments. The
Polish-Russian crisis was the result
OF ignoring the league; the world was
not brought to the threshold of an
other war by failure of the league.
The league might and should have
been used months ago to prevent the
Polish offensive and to make peace
when peace might have been made. i
The league was not invoked to
restrain Poland, one of its own men,
bers, from aggression or, as the
prime minister calls it, reckless and
foolish action as it should have been.
To invoke the league now to sup
port Poland by arms against the con-
Sequences of her action is not mere
ly illogical; it is, in fact a great mis-
use of the league for it perverts it
into an instrument for carrying on
war after having prevented it from
exercising its first and greatest func-