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Show WARSAW, Via Vienna, Sunday, Dec. 15. (By tho Associated Press) The government of Poland should be recognized rec-ognized by all the Allied powers in order to deal properly with tho situation situa-tion in Poland, General Joseph Pit-sudski, Pit-sudski, the military head of the present pres-ent government, told the correspondent correspon-dent today. . , General Pltsudskl is opposed b !- some groups on the ground that he is e a Socialist but he says he is a Demo- v. " crat. General Pitsudskl. while he is - - the military head of the government, ,:i d signs all government deqrees and w the civil head also. The correspon- .j e dent saw him in the Villa of Belvi- . a dere in the outskirts of Warsaw where . ( a he lives with, his staff. He conducts , 1 the business of the Polish government - - in a suito of magnificently furnished , a rooms occupied until a month ago by , . 1 the German governor-general, ton Beseler. & 3 "The government now is in a per- 1 iod of transition," he said. "A perm- jj " anent government will be established . , ' after the January elections to the die', i ; "I am neither a Socialist nor a Bol- I t 1 shevik, but a Democrat. I think the i ..- Bolshevik danger Is imminent in ?o- land unless we are able to put up a i fence against the Russian influence. . ' "Let me first say how happy I m that there Is a united Poland. ) j Independence is due entirely to ine ,. ! Allies, otherwise it would always hae . " been a, fiction. Now we may re3iua , cherished ideals. Our present tasK s ; to keep peace and order while await- ; ing the elections. . f ( "We need an army," he continued. : oc "to avoid the danger of civil war anQ iaD to guarantee the frontiers against Boi- : is shevik agents or the Infiltration . German troops, particularly those iron' c the army of General Hoffmann. The r kj, factors constitute a menace unless L 5 get help from the Allies In the form r of arms. ) |