The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-30

service, IN the second Of two IL
| Illuminating articles written Tor
this newspaper.
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA service writer
Londoii-Despite the fact that It
aas been fnarvelotsly reshrrected
liter 140 years Of extinction az q
tatioii and that 1t is one Of the key
$6iiits In the question OF war or
seAce in. Europe. Poland still re-
hains-the nation the west doesn't
th6w.
F6iidefful story than that OF this
Reconstructed country. There was
tifi1e from the nth to the 17th
century, when Poland was one qf
he dominant countries OF the OLD
E0rld. But centuries OF wars
Ifadually weakened her. BY turns,
he Poles fought the Swedes, the
Germans, the Russians. the. Aus
Eians ana the Turks, Prussia In
feaSed its territory at the expense
& the Poles. Always they were
eadly enemies and remain 80 to
HIS day. The year 1772 saw the
BEGINNING Of the end OF independ-.
nee of Poland. The rulers OF
Prussia, Austria and Russia per-
etrated one OF the greatest rob
eries in history. Each OF them
BOX d huge slice Of Polish terri
Dry. The greedy fnonarchs took
No, more bites at the cherry IN
7s3 and 17s5 and then Poland
BASED to exist as a separate entity.
The World War presented a
faSis situation for the Poles. The
olish subjects Of Austria ana
Germany fought against the Po-
BIZ subjects Of Russia, and Poland
self became the main vast battle-
bid of the Eastern front. When
be end of the war came, the
featy makers. following President
filsofi's principle OF self-detef-
ination for peoples. set up d free
Md Independent Poland. They
lined together the main portions
German, Austrian ana Russian
bland and made them one again.
AHGER THAN ITALY
There was the start Of a nation
hich ID almost entitled to rank
b great power. Compared with
Il three recognized great powers
the continent, Poland Is not to
ignored. 1t has 10000 square
HES OF territory, compared with
Z, 900 In France. $4,000 in Ger
any and $4,000 in italy. It has
100000 people, compared with
200, 900 in France, 62,000,000 In
ermany and 100000 in italy.
has better agricultural soil than
her Germany or italy and 1t has
eat mineral resources.
When the allied and associated
wefs got through with their
eaty-inaking and their map re-
|ranEemefts, 1t was Z terrible Job
ey handed over to the masters
the new Poland. No nation had
greater task Of rebuilding. The
hited States came to the rescue
It'll food and money and seeds
r the farmers. The peasants be-
IN their job of reconstituting
eir ruined homes and once more
Hing their neglected fields.
In the cities the Polish work
en-, with the owners, once more
STORED Polish industry. Much
eded roads were rebuilt. New
es Of railway were constructed.
bRAfIDABLE IN WAR
II things ever came to war In
b next year or so between Ger
Any and Poland alone, 1t Is not at
sure that Germany would fare
well. On the sea, she would
We 1t all her, own way. With
r over $4,000 tons of war ves-
Is, including her wonderful poe
Il battle-cruiser, her old battle
ips and cruisers, she would total
dominate the Baltic Sea against
BANDS few destroyers and sub
hrines. She could blockade Dam
and lombard Poland's great
TT OF Gdynia.
on land, there would be a diff
rent story. Germany has d pro-
Bsional long term army OF 100,-
o men. There are the 10000
russian police. all trained In the
3 OF rifles. There are the some
lllion men In the two private
mics - the Nazi storm troops
"a the Steel Helm. But their
IMMEDIATE use without training In
he Of war IL problematical.
Poland, on the other hand, has
standing army Of 100000 men
n nearly $4,000 officers. Fur
ermore, she has $4,000 frontier
ards and police, all organized
a military basis. In her 30
Eiments OF infantry, one In every
elvs companies is machine gun
At. She has 40 cavalry regi-
ents with one machine gun
uadron TO each. She has 80
Ia artillery regiments, ten heavy
tillery regiments. one powerful
avy artillery regiment, one mo-
fized anti.craft regiment, be-
les many other groups of spe-
Liixed artillery troops. She has
ree flying regiments, each con-
bting Of two to three groups and
|ch group consisting Of two. or
Tree flights. She has also two
iloon battalions. In all. she has
fne 700 up-to-date airplafes and
poo men in her air force.
sIo OF CREATORS
besides the big men represent
the Allied and associated
{wers, who actually drafted the
|e&ty Of Versailles. the real crea-
fs OF modern Poland as a free
Id Independent nation may be
ia to be three - Ignace Pader-
;Ski, the evangel; Ignace Mosic-
the propagandist and theorist.
Ia Josef Pilsudski, the warrior.