. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE WATCH TOWER A Review of Current EventsBy EDWARD N. TEALL RUSSIA AND POLAND At the end of August it looked as though thetide had turned for Poland. The Bolsheviks,after driving in upon Warsaw, had been repulsedwith great losses, and were in disorder. The Russian is a good soldier, but he has aqueer streak in him. He is temperamental,fatalistic. He fights hard while he does fight,but when it looks as if the fight were hopeless, heis inclined to believe that it is not meant that he shall gain the victory—and he calmly stopsfighting. The Russian way of life is quite d
. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE WATCH TOWER A Review of Current EventsBy EDWARD N. TEALL RUSSIA AND POLAND At the end of August it looked as though thetide had turned for Poland. The Bolsheviks,after driving in upon Warsaw, had been repulsedwith great losses, and were in disorder. The Russian is a good soldier, but he has aqueer streak in him. He is temperamental,fatalistic. He fights hard while he does fight,but when it looks as if the fight were hopeless, heis inclined to believe that it is not meant that he shall gain the victory—and he calmly stopsfighting. The Russian way of life is quite differ-ent from our Anglo-Saxon belief that a manmakes his own fate; and the difference is boundto show, in war as in other things. So it seemedas if such a reverse as the Reds suffered beforeWarsaw might be decisive against them. The Polish National Council of Defence issueda proclamation calling upon the nations for said that if Poland fell it would be due not. Wide World Pholo THE CITY ()!? , AS SEEN FROM AN ; 129 1130 THE WATCH TOWER (Oct. only to overbearing might, but to the indiffer-ence of a world which calls itself democratic andfreedom-loving. If Polish freedom dies to-morrow, it added, yours will be , with Lenin declaring that his followerswould never cease trying to stir up revolution inevery nation, it certainly seemed that the Coun-cil was not far from the truth. An exceedingly interesting figure in the eventsof August was General Wrangel, who followedKerensky, K(jlchak and Denikine as a possibleorganizer of popular power in Russia. His suc-cesses in South Russia were a great obstacle inthe way of the Bolsheviks, and promised to helpRussia reach a solution of her problems. But noone dares try to say what will happen in Russia,and there was nothing to do but wait to seewhat General Wrangel could do in the way of ex-tending his power against the cruel progress ofBolshevism. It becomes more and mo
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