Evening star., 1939-10-06

the fact that we knew that the Ger
man armed forces could destroy and
sweep away the whole of this ridicu-
lous state and it's army within few
weeks.
But this attitude, for which the
Polish leaders themselves were re-
sponsible. was the fundamental rea-
son why the Polish government re-
fused even to consider the German
proposal.
Another reason was that fatal
promise Of guarantee given to the
state which. although not menaced
at all. very rapidly became convinced
it could afford to challenge great
power without risk once it was as
sured of the support of two great
powers, perhaps even hoping this
| way to lay the foundation for reali-
zation of all its own insane ambi-
tions.
For. as soon as Poland felt certain
of that guarantee, minorities living
in that country had to suffer what
amounted to reign Of terror. I
don't consider it my task to speak of
the lot of the Ukrainians, or white
Russian population. whose interests
now lie in the hands of Russia.
However. I do feel it my duty to
speak of the lot of those helpless
thousands OF Germans who carried
on the tradition of those who first
brought culture to that country CEN
turtles ago and whom the Polish now
began to oppress and drive out
Since March, 1899, they had been
victims of truly satanic terrorization.
How many of them had been alb
Quoted and where they are cannot
be stated today.
Women Were Violated
and Children Outraged.
Villages with hundreds of German
Inhabitants are now left without
men because they all have been
killed. In others women were vio-
lated and murdered, girls and chill
dren outraged and killed. In 1898
an Englishman-Sir George Carew-
wrote in his diplomatic reports to
the English government that the
outstanding features of Polish
character were cruelty and lack of
moral restraint.
Since that time this cruelty has
not changed. Just as tens of thou
sands of Germans were slaughtered
and sadistically tormented to death,
so German soldiers captured in
fighting were tortured and mas
sacred.
This pet lapdog Of the Western
! democracies cannot be considered a
cultured nation at all.
For more than four years I fought
in the Great War on the western
front, but such things did not hap
pen on either side.
Things that have occurred in Po-
land in the past few months, and
especially the last four weeks, con-
stitute flaming accusations against
those responsible for creation of a
so-called state lacking every ma
tional, historical, cultural and moral
foundation.
Had only l per cent of these
atrocities been committed in any
part of the world against the Eng
lish people I should be interested to
see the indignation of those gentle
men" who today in hypocritical
horror condemn the German or Rus
sian procedure.
No! To grant guarantees to this
state and this government as was
done could only lead to appalling
disasters. Neither the Polish gov
ernment, nor the small cliques
supporting it, nor the Polish ma
tion as such were capable of meas
uring the responsibilities which were
implied in such guarantees in Po-
lands favor by half of Europe.
Guarantees to Poland
Accounted for Behavior.
The passionate sentiment thus
aroused, together with the sense Of
that security which had been un-
conditionally guaranteed to them
counted for the behavior of the Po-
lish government during the period
between April and August this year
1t vas also the cause of the atti-
tuds they adopted toward my con-
ciliatory proposals. The government
rejected these proposals because
they felt themselves protected, OF
even encouraged, by public opinion
and public opinion protected them
and ENCOURAGED them on their Wey
because It had been left IN n.