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Show ABA PLANNING AID II POLAND NATION THAT IS NOW SOLE BULWARK AGAINST SOVIET EXPANSION TO BE ASSISTED. Arms and Food to be Supplied by United States and Allies, That the Poles May Prevent Further Fur-ther Advance of Radicals. Washington. Definite plans for furnishing fur-nishing Poland with war materials and food, to aid in checking the westward spread of Bolshevism are being considered con-sidered by the United States and the allied governments, Secretary Baker announced Thursday before the house ways and means committee, supplementing supple-menting the declaration that Poland was "the only bulwark against Bolshevism." Bol-shevism." The committee has before It the proposal pro-posal of Secretary Glass to authorize $150,000,000 in credits' to European countries for the purchase of American Ameri-can food. Supporting that project, General Bliss, speaking from his experience expe-rience as American representative on the supreme military council during the war and as a member of the American Amer-ican .peace delegation to Paris, declared de-clared that if Poland were overrun a general revival of the war might follow. fol-low. The military aspects of the food situation sit-uation in Europe nre "purely specua-tlon" specua-tlon" as to details, but not as to results. re-sults. General Bliss said. It was the "growing opinion" of military experts, he added, that Russian soviet armies would turn toward the west, where they would outnumber the Polish forces, their only barrier. General Bliss said that In granting loans, the United States should Mu-mand Mu-mand of the allies that they provide the Poles with military supplies. It was at this point Secretary Baker told the committee that the allies and the United States were planning to furnish arms to the Poles. |