. Review of reviews and world's work . do not expectindulgence or easyterms at Paris, butthey know that theburdens to be placed upon them will be thosethat an orderly and industrious Germany cansurvive. Russian Bolshevism, however, is ofitself a pestilence, with its fanaticism, it tyr-anny and its violence; besides which it pavesthe way for every other kind of pestilencethat follows in the wake of civil war—ty-phus, hunger diseases, social demoralization. „ . Germany also is alarmed about Poland . • . • 1 r T» in the aggressive attitude or ro- ^^ land. Emanuel Wurm, the Ger-man Food Co
. Review of reviews and world's work . do not expectindulgence or easyterms at Paris, butthey know that theburdens to be placed upon them will be thosethat an orderly and industrious Germany cansurvive. Russian Bolshevism, however, is ofitself a pestilence, with its fanaticism, it tyr-anny and its violence; besides which it pavesthe way for every other kind of pestilencethat follows in the wake of civil war—ty-phus, hunger diseases, social demoralization. „ . Germany also is alarmed about Poland . • . • 1 r T» in the aggressive attitude or ro- ^^ land. Emanuel Wurm, the Ger-man Food Commissioner, informed the As-sociated Press correspondent on January 15that *the situation in Posen was threaten-Premier Ebert, Philip Scheidemann, and ing to become acute, and that its immediateother members of the cabinet, declaring its effect upon the shipment of wheat and pota- Danoer^ ^ January 15 the existing gov-inuoiuina cmment sent out an appeal toermany ^^^ German nation signed by 128 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. (g) Couiuiuiee on Public Information COLONEL HOUSE SECRETARY LANSING PRESIDENT WILSON HON. HENRY WHITE THE AMERICAN DELEGATES TO THE PEACE CONFERENCE AT PARIS GENERAL BLISS toes to Berlin was already being felt. ThePolish authorities, said the Commissioner,have been demanding coal in exchange forfoodstuffs. Germany is supplying the fuel,but the Poles have failed to reciprocate. Theynot only have failed to ship wheat and pota-toes, but have retained the rolling stockwhich carried our coal to them. This offi-cial believed that the present critical foodsituation in Germanys eastern provinces andits effect on the Berlin supply would bequickly dissipated when Polands politicalaspirations were once adjusted and the Polishgovernment was stabilized. The PeaceConference must, at the earliest possible mo-ment, decide upon the boundaries of Polandand use its influence and authority to secureorder and save the Poles from internal con-flict and from war with th
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