The Washington times., 1934-02-28
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in the world. And already 1t
has outstripped a dozen great
ports Of ancient fame.
Aside from shipping men and
politicians few persons outside
Of Poland know even today the
name of this extraordinary place,
Today on top Of a cliff at the
east Of the city there stands an
immense cross that blazes out at
night in electric lights 1t blazes
over a city Of $1,000 people. It
blazeS over a harbor that today
carries more goods than Am
sterdam or Copenhagen, more
than lie Havre or Bordeaux,
more than Bremen or Stock
holm, more than Stettin or
DanZig.
A Wilson Dictate
Where this electric cross now
stands will be built great cathe
dral. For Poland that cathedral
will be the hottest in the nation
Because Gdynia is the only city
that has been born in new Pc
land.
Poland, not rich, has spent
more than one hundred million
dollars in gold on Gdynia.
Gdynia means Polish resolution
TO make a commercial success OF
the new Poland. 1t means Polish
determination to keep its own
outlet to the sea. But above all
it means the Polish will to keep
the corridor.
Fifteen years ago when the Pc
lish corridor passed from Ger
man 70 Polish hands, it did SC
because Wilson agreed that Pc
land SHOULD have al outlet to the
sea. CzechoSlovakia had no such
outlet. Czechoslo7akia used the
ports of other countries and has
not suffered.
There is plenty Of argument to
prove that Europe might have
been saved it's most insoluble
problem if the corridor had never
been cut through Germany. The
cutting of the corridor upset an
existing condition.
Chief Complaint
It became Germany's chief
complaint even before Hitler
came to power.
without the corridor, declared
the Germans, we cannot live. II
cuts off East Prussia from the
Reich. 1t sewers limb from oul
body.
That vas all true IS years ago
Today, standing on the cliff over
looking Gydnia, one has to OBJ
serve that an immense change
has taken place. The Germans
100000 in number, moved out Of
the corridor when it went Polish
Today the Poles ship through
the corridor, north and south, BY
way Of Gdynia and Danzig Il
million tons of goods a year
This means around 10 per cent
Of Poland's total foreign trade
And Germany ships across the
corridor, east and west, between
the Reich and East Prussia, only
two million tons a year.
Have Good Argument
Thus, today, the Poles have
created a brand new condition
They have created the facts fol
the argment that if the corridor
were to 60 back to Germany to
day, Poland would suffer more
than Germany would gain.
Poland thinks today of the
corridor in much larger terms
Poland is a new state, carved Out
of three others-Russia, Germany
and Austria-Hungary. She has
had to be ready at any moment
to fight for her existence. One
war she has fought, and won
against Russia. Military con-
siderationS must rank higher fol-
Poland than for many other
countries.
Military considerations make
Warsaw inexorably resolved tc
keep the corridor and to develop
Gdynia. AS the war with Russia
broke out in 1919, German work
men in Danzig struck and refused
to load munitions for Poland
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This was one reason why Poland
as soon as she recovered from the
Russian war, resolved to build hel
own port.
Block to the Germans
A glance at the map will show
another cogent military reason
why Poland should wish to keer
the corridor away from Germany