Evening star., 1939-10-06
spirit worthy of the memory of
our heroes in the last war.
Versailles War Cradle
OF State Bound to Fall.

vi SLdtc DOunu 10 FaI.
In the face of this historically un-
precedented collapse of structure
purporting to be a state, the ques-
ton in almost everybody's mind is as
to the reason for such phenomenon.
Versailles was the cradle of a
Polish state which had emerged from
the untold sacrifice of blood-not of
Polish but of German and Russian
blood. Poland, who for centuries
past had proved herself incapable
of existence, was in 1916 artificially
begotten and in 1919 no less artif-
cially borne by a German govern
ment just as incapable of existence.
In utter disregard of almost 500
years of experience, without con-
sideration for the lesson of his
torical development during many
centuries. without appreciation for
photographic conditions and with
no regard for all economic expe-
diencies, a state was constructed at
Versailles which, according to its
whole nature, was sooner or later
bound to become the cause of a
most serious crisis.
A man who, I am sorry to say,
now ranks among our fiercest en-
emies, at that time clearly foresaw
all this. mean Mr.. Lloyd George.
Like so many others, he sounded
warning, not only at the time of the
creation of that structure, but also
in the course of its subsequent ex-
pansion which had taken place in
utter disregard of reason and right.
At that time he expressed appre-
hension that in that state an ac-
emulation of conditions was being
created containing the risk of con-
f1icts which sooner or later might
lead to great European complica-
tions.
National Composition
OF Poland Now Revealed.
AS a matter of fact, conditions
surrounding the structure of this
new so-called state, as far as its
nationalities were concerned, could
not be clarified until now. 1t re-
quires some knowledge of Polish
census methods to realize how ut
terly alien to tru&l and, therefore,
irrelevant, statistics on the national
composition of that territory were
and are.
In 1919 the Poles laid claims to
the territory where they pretended
to have majority of 95 per cent
IN East Prussia, for instance
whereas a plebiscite later showed
the Poles actually had reached q
figure of per cent.
In the state finally created which
contained parts of former Russia
Austria and Germany non-Polish
elements were so brutally ill-treated
suppressed, tyrannized and tortured
that any plebiscite depended en-
tirely on the good will of local ad-
ministrative officials for producing
such results as were desired or de-
manded.
Nor did indisputable Polish ele-
ments receive much better recog-
HlClOIl. Anu Wnen. on top OF all
this, statesmen of our Western
Hemisphere spoke of this kind OF
creation as of democracy, such terms
amounted to mockery of the funda-
mentals of their own system.
In that country there ruled q
minority Of aristocratic or non
aristocratic large, vast estate own.
ers and wealthy intellectuals te
whom under the most favorable cir.
cumstances their own Polish COM
patriots were nothing but mas.
manpower. For that reason the
regime was never backed by more
than Is per cent of the total popu.
lation,
The economic distress and Low
cultural level correspond With