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Show POLAND AS AN OBJECTION OB-JECTION It Is not known that anybody's efforts antedated thoso of President Wilson for the establishment of a Joint American and European guarantee guar-antee ot military support for Poland under conditions such as are now dlrefutly apparent. The formerly eelebarted fourteen points or constructive Idealism and prophetic statesmanship were enuncl- .ated to the United States Senate on (January 8, 181. Point Thirteen Mated to fcW. -'""-- -l "An Independent Polish Stato should be erected which should Include In-clude territories Inhabited by tndls-.putably tndls-.putably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to thp sea, and whose political land economic Independence and territorial ter-ritorial Integrity should bo guaranteed guaran-teed by International covenant." The covenanted engagement to guarantee which Mr. Wilson .through thick and thiu, has Insisted on fasten Ing unamended upon tho American Government and peoplo Is contained, of course, In Article X ot the Versailles Ver-sailles treaty. To this Great Britain France, Italy and Japan, ib well as Poland Itself ,aro now parties, and tho United States Is not a party. "Article X Territorial and Political Polit-ical Guarantees "Tho members of tho lcaguo un- dcrtakc to respect and prcservo ns against external aggression tho territorial ter-ritorial Integrity and existing polltt-.cal polltt-.cal Independence ot all members of tho League. In case of any such aggression, or In caso of any threat or danger of such aggression, tho (Council shall advlso upon the means i by Which this obligation shall be fulOllled." This Is ancient history but tho bearing ot Artlclo X upon the traditional tradi-tional policy and tho futuro security of our Institutions and the happiness and properlty ot our people Is getting a new tlllustratlon which ought to help American cltlsens to understand tho clear common tense and patrolt-Ism patrolt-Ism of Senator Harding's recent ut- tcrances on tho subject. Did Mr. Wilson intend that this country should pledgo Itself to fight for tho boundrlcs hla geographers nnd ethnographers had established Polish stato? Ho himself answered for tho newly created lndepondant that question In a manner that leaves no room for doubt and long before he and his apologists began to befog be-fog the matter with admissions as to tho exclusive war declaring power pow-er of Congress under the Constitution Constitu-tion and sophistical distinctions be-twen be-twen moral and legal obligations. In presenting the covenant to the Peace Conference at Paris on Fobur-ary Fobur-ary 16, U19, President Wilson said: "Armed force Is in the background of this programme, but It Is In the background; and It tho moral force of the world will not suffice, the physical force of tho world shall. But that Is tho last resort because this (tho covenant Is intendod as a constttuatlon ot peace, not as a league lea-gue of war." Whoa President Wilson brought tho Drat draft ot his covenant to this country in Feburary of 1919, boosting boost-ing that ho had Interwoven It bo deftly de-ftly with tho treaty of peace that peaco could not bo had without tho surrendor to supergovernment, bo asked his hearers at Boston: "Do you reallzo how many new nations na-tions aro going to bo Bot up In tho presenco of old nnd poworful notions In Europo nnd loft thero, and if lclt by us without n' disinterested frlond? Do you bollovo In tho Polish causo as I do? Aro you gotng to set up Poland, Pol-and, Inunaturo, inoxporlenced, ns yet unorganized, and leave her with a clrclo of armies around hurt" Apply this project, theso principles and this program to tho caso of Poland Po-land and beyond Poland to tho unnumbered un-numbered possibilities, prcsont and futuro, Involvpd In Artlclo X, ns conceived con-ceived and interpreted by President Wilson, and then, no matter how warm your present sympathy for Poland's Po-land's cause, thank heaven onoe moro for tho Republican party! Do tho American people begin to realize what It is thoy have escaped! The Sun and New York norald. i |