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Show a yaaaaa " ' A Si If aai no'i" m v- s 1 I 1 1 WASHINGTON, Sept 2 "no of 1 the Inventions of old-fashioned diplo 'macv Is the buffer state." A buffer 'state Is a state which lies between two I hostile state-, and gct3 the buffing ' l oland is the present conspicuous 11- I lustration- . Belgium was set up as a buffer state1 at the conclusion of the Napoleonic J iv.ars. Little Belgium got its bumps 'f;rst bet wen Britain and Germany when the trouble came. The first I thought, as the world war drew to a' conclusion, in l!v- minds of the old I world diplomats, was to set up buffer st.-:tcs all around Germany. Ihen. alii of a sudden, Russia underwent an eco-' nomic revolution The conventional laws of ownership! in Russia were overthrown and Lenlnel. and his friends began experiments In I la new code of property. This alarm-' cd the rest of the vvorld and the most urgent thought became one for a buf-" :ic-r stale against Russia. 1 So the allies started to create what they called a cordon sanitate, which j' means a sort of line of disinfection around Russia The re-ul purpose was I to check the advance of Russian Ideas but the old world diplomats could think of no other way than the old! .world wav of mill tan measurea and buffer states. So all the allies got to-. ether and decided to set up a reliable1 I old-fashioned government in Poland and to e-eniip Poland with an army. Poland had tor a hundred years been the traditional enemy of Uus-sin. Uus-sin. The Poles hated the Russians and !tl;e Russians haled tho Poles They have been brought up to do so. Just as ihe Germans were brought up to h:.te the French and vice versa So J. P Morgan and our other inter-1 'national bankers raised a great fund 1 'many millions anel financed Poland tnd the- ex-piano virtuoso, P.iderewski J They got a Piksudskl to write the' I words anel Paderevvskl to set them to, music for n new so-called republic, which was the same klnel of republics I that all the allies have hud Bines the. 'war started, namely, a comfortable I dictatorship. ur war department helped. President Presi-dent Wilson .Hid S-cretary Colby have been helping. iii war department f ilpped the Poles army shoes and I 'other supplies lor little or nothing. Itj jwas all done very Quietly Pitiless pub- licity was never intended to apply to jthls kind of diplomacy The Poles responded heartily to the. jvvell financed friends of the- allies and'( jgol so chesty with their new army, jlhat the;, decided to go out and grab u large slice of Russia. Hut they! overplayed their hand. ' o j Red-haired persons are said to b-j b-j les liable to baldness than those j with hair of any other color. |