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Lithuania has broken the truce recently agreed upon with the Poles by attacking their advance guards in the central area southeast of Vilna. The object of the truce was to settle the boundary dispute amicably, but the sudden agression by Lithuania points to the long arm of Moscow...
...dying fires of the Polish-Lithuanian boundary dispute over Vilna do not signify that the heat is dead. An armistice agreed upon by both sides is only a lull in the hostilities that have been adding their quota to wrecking the peace equilibrium maintained with such immense difficulty in Europe...
...order for agricultural tools or for cattle, which would be the only justification that they could plead for depriving their unfortunate citizens of their daily bread. On the other hand, the Bolsheviki are very busy talking about war and explaining to the world the significance of the Ruhr, Memel, Vilna. At the fifth anniversary of the formation of the Red Army, Trotzky, Minister of War, said: "We want peace, but nobody knows when the bad intentions of our enemies will compel us to get into the field." They ridicule France's attitude with regard to the Ruhr and spare...
...fact the new territory assigned to Poland, mainly either territory that has a majority of Poles, as is the case in the whole region between Congress, Poland, and Vilna, or else territory inhabited by Catholic White Russians who, as I explained before, are really closer to the Russians...
...doubt very much, however, whether the newspapers or the people making these charges against Poland have any definite knowledge as to the very complex racial character of the territories demanded by Poland. They talk about Vilna, so warmly claimed by the Poles, as if it were a Lithuanian city to which Poland had no right. As a matter of fact, there are only two thousand Lithuanians in the city, while the Poles are over fifty per cent of the population. The whole district surrounding it is overwhelmingly Polish...