July 28.
GUED relief will be felt at the intelligence that the Soviet has agreed to negotiate peace with Poland and that the Bolshevik armies have been ordered to withdraw, presumably to the Polish frontier as defined by the Versailles Conference. The want of effective maps of the part of Europe over which fighting has been spread during the past three months and the appalling nomenclature of towns and districts involved have probably blunted the average newspaper reader's appreciation of the extraordinary gravity of the conflict between Poland and Russia. But when Mr. Lloyd George described in the House of Commons, on July 21, how the Allies bad resolved, if necessary, to come to Poland's aid with all their strength, no special acquaintance with the new geography of Central Europe was needed to show how serious was the prospect opened up. _Defensive warfare, when it involves the defending of a whole frontier, cannot be maintained without offensive measures, and a campaign was foreshadowed of which no end could be foreseen. A repetition of the history of the French Revolution might well have been seen. It is an interesting speculation what would have become of France at the end of teenth century
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