Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-01
Reconstruction of Poland Is Needfl
for Future Peace of European Nation
Special to The World.

Special 10 The World
NEW YORK. Nov. 3O.--"If Ger
many had natural eastern frontier
as she has natural boundaries to
west and sUutn--the eslaUnsnment
or permanent peace might not re-
qulre suCh extraordinary safeguards.
But, Germany lyIng where she uoes
ana her people be.ns wndt tney are,
the future Of Europe depends on one
thIng--the reconstruction OF Po-
land"
The speaker was no less a person
than hamon DmowskI. for 20
years a leader OF tho submerged
western Sldvs in their aspiration to-
ward a renewal national nlc, long
TIE representative Of the city UI
warsaw in the RUSSIAN duma, today,
by virtue of his position as pres.denI
or the Poiisn national .CUmuItlee,
recosnized by the governments OF
Great Britain, France, Italy ana the
United states AZ the Official repre-
sentative ana SPOKESMAN OF thirty
i've millions Of people.
IT must be made impossible for
Germany to be unsafe to the demOC-
racIes OF the world" declared Mr..
A1'''"'NA' ~ W lHdl IL lS NlldIsg
necessary to have a strong, trust
worthy non-German state on Ger
many's eastern marches. And the
one region capable OF becoming such
a state Is POiand
Just what is Poland? Where Is
1t?
Not All Poland Shown on Maps
ou VII! not flnd II at present on
H. 4.
snow you, In the extreme west OF
Russia. a small group OF govern
neuts ccntering around Warsaw.
That spot is labeled Poland But
Po.and means much more than tuut.
In the Vistula valley and its
drainage area 1.-Two the $1,000
Polish nation. That region Is 70
land. Part OF 1t Is still marked 'Po-
land on the maps, but most OF It
needs Identification since the 'parti-
tions,' when the autOcrats VINO tnen
ruled Germany, Russia and Austria
each took his helping.
Germany slice you will find on
the west, extending AL the way from
the mountains to the Baltic. Silesia
furthest south, then PUsen, then
" ~ 4 AbspoA" "AAll 40 lSAlAlC Va
Dantzig-all are PrussIain provinces
now. They once were Poland. The
population stilll Is Polish. To the
south OF map Poland Is GaliCA, an.
Austrian province. Its chief city is
Cracow. the ancient capital OF Po-
land. Other cities are Lemberg and
Przemysl. The population OF the
province Is predominantly Polish.
To tho In liag Nn1hynfn
That too was part OF Poland once,
and today, although the peasant
population of the region is Ruthen-
ian, its civilization and almost all
its middle class p9pulation-its pro-
fesSiOnal men and merchants, the in
telligent, educated cit.zenry who are
the necessary pillars OF true demo-
cratic state-are Polish. The same
thing is true to the north, in Lithu-
ania, which also was once part Of
Poland.
so the region where the new de-
mocracy OF eastern Europe must
arise does not lie sharply marked out
at presnt on any map. To define it
and set its limits is part Of the work
which must be undertaken.
Why Poland Must BE RECONSTRUCTED
There are three reasons" Mr..
Dmowski continued, why the recon-
strucuon OF national Poland is so
vital an issue.
"The first, already touched on, is
the necessity OF setting an impass-
able boundary to Germany on the
east. Poland is the only country SO
situated, geographically, as TO be
abe to provide this service, the only
natural obstacle between German
scheming and Russian disorganiza-
uon.