HOLLAND AND PEACE

Southland Times, Issue 18833, 28 May 1920, Page 5

HOLLAND AND PEACE

PRE>IDKNT HORRIFIED BV FRUITS OF HOLBHEVIBM. The determination of Poland to resist, by force the threats of (he Bolshevist leaders was expressed by President Pilsudski in an interview about the middle of March with the Petit Parisien. If forms interesting reading in view of the recent developments.

“Poland," said the President, “wishes for pence, and is desirous to start peace discussion®, but we shall not allow ourselves In he forced into such discussions by threats of the Red Army. I thought that the Bolsheviks woidd discuss: peace with us without any ulterior motives. I was willing to begin such discussions in the same spirit,and had no intention to exploit our advantageous position by supporting onr arguments with the force of arms. I did not want a peace enforced by our guns and bayonets. Unfortunately, the Bob j shevik attitude gives me the impression | that they do not want real peace, but wish | to force peace from us under the threat | of their fist, as they did with the Es- I thonians. | “I am fully alive to the fact that the | Bolsheviks are concentrating numerous i forces on our front. But they are mis- I taken if they think they can frighten us 1 by offering a sort of ultimatum. Our ! army is ready, and has my full confidence. I If threatened, our army can threaten as well. Nor do I fear the famous Bolshevik 1 propaganda which to many men appears 1 to be so frightful. It will not succeed in Poland. There may be local disturbances, I but the creation of a general revolutionary ■ movement is impossible because of the fact f that we are too near to Russia and can | judge the results of Bolshevik experiments i for ourselves. Even the most radical eie I merits in Poland are. horrified by the chasm I ' into which the Bolsheviks have thrust Rus sia. The Bolshevik propaganda may endeavour to profit by certain internal difficulties, which during the present economic situation are hard to evade, but will never 1 establish a communistic system. 1

“Countries further removed may believe in the beauty of Lenin’s regime, but we are too near. Our views are steady. We are horrified at the awful situation caused by Bolshevism in Russia. ’’