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bly, declares it applicable, what hap
pens7 Members OF the League who
have signed treaty are invited togeth-
to consider it afresh-and ON one point
only The Assembly itself does moi
claim the right to modify the treaty
It is not its business to substitute new
signatures for old. Nor will it solve
ton It furthers. Doubtless, e the diff
ferences become aggravated. they can
BE- put, by article Is, to arhitrs ton
but then again, only on the esse 1tial
condition that, in the opinion of all
interested parties, they are capable OF
being resolved by arbitration.
Liberty Of Everybody.
Thus, however We seek to interpret
article IL, it allows only for q treaty
revision with the consent of both
parties. When, in article 227, the
drafters of the treaty of Versailles
proclaimed the sacred authority of
treaties" they would have been singu-
larry inconsequent If they had misin
terpreted or threatened that authority
in article To- on the contrary, they
simply foresaw In the event of excep-
tional circumstances arising, a pro-
cedure which guaranteed the liberty OF
everybody
II we are left confused through the
present manifestations of German
covetousness, our attention can only
fall for the future on M. zaleskis
declaration of Polish resistance. Article
10 having consequently no chance OF
being called into operation, the Ger
man agitation can only come to a
fruitleSs end. 1t can only result in
urAk -
After all the demonstrations of good
will We have shown, We have the right
to expect more wisdom and moderation
from our neighbors.
/ have Just been talking with an
excellent Frenchman who believes him
self an infaluble champion of peace,
He whispered to me the following pru-
This is a Polish question and no con-
Germ of France"
THAT is all very we'll" I replied,
shut can one imagine that a conflict
between Poland and Germany would
not affect the interests of France and
Of the whole of Europe?"
I'VE dot not want a conflict" l was
told. Lat Poland either give way or
negotiate an arrangement.
What Kind Of Arrangement?
But what kind of an arrangement?
Z cannot see any possibility OF devils
ing any kind of arrangement either
where Upper Silesia is concerned. or
the corridor. which could better rec
onciliate both Polish feeling and that
of the Reich than the present. The
negatiatorS of 1919 turned the whole
question over and over during many
months. They wanted to restore to
the Polish nation the independence OF
which the sharings-up of 1772, Of 1893,
Of lTaS and Of 1926 had deprived them.
They considered it their duty to undo
"one Of the. greatest injustices per-
petrated in history"
To give the new state access to the
sea, they established the free town of
Danzig, giving Poland control over the
port, the railways and the postal and
telegraph services East Prussia thus
became separated from the rest Of Ger
many by the Danzig territory and by q
Corridor left to Poland. To the OBJ
jections put forward by the German
delegates the allied and associated
powers replied that, according to all
documents of the German Empire, the
ed by a huge majority of Poles, that,
until 1866, East Prussia had not really
been included In the political frontiers
of Germany and that, according to all
German historians, though they had
been a German colony, their country
was not one of German origin.
On these grounds the allies main
tanned their positions, and Germany
gave her signature. For more than 10
years the Poles of the corridor again
have been working under their own
flag If they we're forced once more to
bend before foFeign domination, it
would be not only a brutal attack on
their liberty, but one which would es-
tahlisa In the middle of Europe a verb
table cockpit Of unrest and revolt.
Not Part Of Poland.
As for Upper SileSia, it is true that
Il was not part of the kingdom of Po-
land when it was dismembered. But in
1918 the majority Of its population was
indisputahly Polish, and all German
works, including even school textbooks,
taught that its inhabitants were Polish
In origin and in language. It was be-
cause of this that the allies at first
wanted Upper Silesia to go to Poland.
But in the statement which Herr Won
BrockdorG- Rantzau laid down. on May
20, 1918, on the essential conditions of
peace, ne wrote textually: Germany
could not do without Upper SilsSia.
And, as set-oH, Poland does not need
Upper Silesia.
In their answer of June is. 1919, the
allies decided candidly to make con-
ceSsion: by reasons of the affirmation
ton the part Of Herr Won Brockdorff-
RantsaW that Upper Silesia, although
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