The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-09

will be q special program Of sacred music under the direction of the Misses Grace Leontine Kennedy and Agnes c. Smith.
 q demarcation.iine was fixed up to Bastunai, which was to be extend- cd farther eastward after the bol- shovIks had withdrawn. This line left Vilnius and tho Vilnius region in tho hands of the Lithuaniang. Yet again, however, in incorrlgible direeard of their plighted word, tho Poles, under General Zeligow- Ski, suddenly attacked Vilnius, and on October Q, only two days after signing the suvaiki agreement. re- entered the city, where they have ever since remained. Tho barc- faced staging of this coup as an insurreetionary move by General Zeiigowski can deceive nobody familiar with tho facts. For that matter, Marshal Pilsudski himself later admitted that General Zolig- owaki acted under his orders in pursuance of c deliberate plan. The late M. Leon Bourgeois, then presi- dont of tho council of tho league of nations, which dealt with the question at the end of october. de- nounced tho Polish action as n violation of tho. pledges which Pc. land had given to the league. It would Do wearisome to trace in de- tail tho course of subsequent ef- forts on the part Of the league to compose the Lithuanian.Po Polish conflict. Tho famous Hymans pro- ject was vitiatod from tho start by It's provision for q military conven- ton between Lithuania and Poland and for tho co.ordination of the foreign policies of the two coun- tries. The Lithuanian representa- lives, throughout those long, drawn.out discussions, tried hard to induce tho league council to ac- copt certain reasoned amendments. but to no purpose. The object of these amendments was to protect Lithuania against any form of fcd- oration with Poland, which tho cn- tIro nation condemned. Seeing that tho league refused to give consideration to these representa- tons. Lithuania was obliged to re- jeet the Hymans project. Thus the intervention of the league, which formally began in September, 1920, formally terminated in January 1922, after m entire series of futile conferences at Brussels and Geneva"
 "In January 1922 the league gave notice of tho withdrawal of tho military control commission, and nt the samo timo proposed tho acceptance of another demarcn- tlon.line .. tho fifth of the ill.starred sequence to take tho place of tho neutral zono which, in November 1920, had been established between tho Lithuan- ian and Polish beiiigerents. This proposal was strenuously resisted by Llthuanln. Nevertheless. the league council, sitting at Paris on February 2. 1929, adopted n rec- ommendntion, based upon the so- called Saura Report, dividing be- tween Lithuania and Poland tho administration of the neutral zone established under the convention of November 1920, and on the strength of this recommendation which had from the first been re- jected by Lithuania, the Confer- ence of Ambassadors in it's decision of March IS. 1923, assigned Vilnius and the Vilnius region to Poland. Tn this manner did the then high est international doby in Europe sanction an infringement of inter- national law without parallel in modern times"
 Tt goes without saying that Lithuania has never recognized this iniquitous decision, which pre- tends to give legality to situation created by armed force without a shadow of moral or judicial justi- fication. According to elementary principles of international law, the only party with authority to dis pose of the Vilnius territory was Russia, who, under her treaty of July 12, 1920 with Lithuania, solemnly assigned 1t to the latter. The Russo Lithuanian treaty of 1928 confirms integrally the treaty of 1920, so that if respect for in- ternational law were universal, the Lithuanian frontiers established under the last-named treaty would be obligatory for both Lithuan;a and Poland. The government of the U. s. s. R. (Soviet Russia) has indeed made its position perfectly clear on this point. Tn order to de- prive the Poles of an opportunity of placing their own interpreta- tion upon the territorial provisions of the Riga treaty. which have often been cited as setting aside the terms of the Russo-Lithuanian treaty of July 12, 1920, the U. s. s. R. in a separate note took the trouble to explain that "the actual violation of the frontiers of Lith- uania, which was done against the will of the Lithuanian nation, has not altered it's attitude to the ter ritorial sovereignty of Lithuania established by Article and an- nexed to the peace treaty of Lith- uania with Russia, of July l2, 1920" By this note the U. s. S. R. publicly declared that it does not and will not recognize the pred atory act of General Zeligowski. It is necessary to emphasize the point that however widely Lithuan- ian political parties may differ on questions of internal policy, they are entirely united on the question of Vilnius. No government that agreed to givo up Vilnius, the his- toric capital of Lithaania and the home of her national cluture. could