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Most of your editorials since the opening of the College year have had a very irritating effect upon me, especially so the one in today's issue under the caption "Riga...
...demarcation line laid down in the armistice just concluded at Riga, which will presumably be the frontier adopted in the future peace treaty, it seems to me that the Poles have marked out a very reasonable and just frontier. It is true that this line is far east of the line recently proposed by Lord Curzon in the name of the British Government; but the Curzon line was never intended by anyone but the English to be a final boundary of Poland. It is true that the Riga line lies far east of the ethnographical limits of Poland as shown...
...announcement of the armistice signed at Riga between Poland and Soviet Russia, while not entirely unexpected, comes, nevertheless, as welcome news. From the time when Hoskiusko and his followers, failing in their efforts to gain their own freedom, crossed the seas and fought successfully for ours, Poland and America have been firm friends. It was with anxiety and resentment that Americans watched the advance of the Red army upon the Polish borders; anxiety for the courageous little State, resentment that our own officialdom should do no more than write another note to Moscow. But, thanks to the fighting qualities...
...well be, that, having decisively proved her abilities, she will no more be interfered with by the powers of Central Europe. It may well be that Riga will prove to be another Yorktown. It is to be ardently hoped that such is indeed the case...
With the temporary cessation of activity along the Western Front, interest centers on the movements near Riga and the threat at Petrograd. Whenever a foe plans to invade Russia, one wonders if history will repeat itself. Is there any possibility that the Teutons will be caught in another Poltava or in a second Retreat from Moscow? Some seem to think this likely...