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The Birth
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Fever there was, a country which could justly com- pluin of encirclement it is Poland. Poland's whole history has been a fight-alternately won and lost- against powerful neighbours. Repeatedly allles have | promised help and then left her to fight alono.
There is in fact, nothing new about Po- land's present altuntion. The Poles have been conditioned against it by nine centuries of history. And the Poles are as conscious of their history na the Irish, They live on it.
nation in the tenth century, but Poland Arst appeared as 15 in the twelfth and thirteenth- conturfex civil wars and disrup. on into minor principalities weakened the kingdom and left it open to invasion from, both East and West. In 'the "four-. teonth century Casimir the Great restored unfly and con- * quered the fat lnnüs of Galielu,
When the Polish and Lithuanian crowns were united by nmrriage in 1880, Poland's first period of greatness began. Civil and intellectual freedom, combined with the artistic Sforza Rengissance, which EL princess brought with her from Italy, miade Poland one of the
Teal States of Europe.
But Poland's greatness de- cayed. The Jagellon dynasty. died out in 1872 and the crea tion of an elective monarchy gave the surrounding Powers an casy handle with which to mani- palate Poland's internal affaire: Elections were nearly always carried out under threat of force from outside,
and Nation
Death
1914 and NOW
VARSAW
RIA UNGARY
The area enclosed, in the map above, by the black line is the present shape of Poland. The darker shaded areas are those parts of Poland held by Germany in 1914. The lighter shaded area is that part held by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The remaining white area was held by Tsarist Russia in 1914.
The figure on the left is a Polish peasant dancing in national costume; on the right, Polish staff officers examine a new anti-aircraft gun.
A
DONALD HODSON
quickly. At the head of the Regency Council in Warsaw he rapidly restored order, evacuated Germans, and compromised with .the Left elements in the coun- try. Paderewski, world-famous pianist and composer, was his right-hand man and ablest pro- pagandist.
out of Warsaw and Vilna, before offered their services to the The final degeneration came
Austrian Army, and by 1916 with the fantastic custom of the the revolt was crushed. Polish Parliament of allowing
there were three Polish brigades Koscluszko's success kept the in the Austrian Army.
WHILE Poland's frontiers itself to be adjourned on the spirit of liberty burning
were being decided at vote of any one deputy. Most throughout the dark days of But Pilsudski soon saw that Versailles, to the fury of the parliaments naturally ended in the nineteenth century, the the Austrians were more in Germans who lost Danzig and this way.
Period of Captivity. The Con- terested in his men than in his Pomerania (better known as the gress of Vienna confirmed the ideals for Polish freedom, and Polish Corridor), Pilsudski was Partition, and Poland existed he resigned his command. in the field facing more urgent. only in so far as her foreign,
problems. Simultaneously Germany de- In rulers allowed her liberty.
clared the independence of Po tory and Russia was weak, split this respect. Russia was
land, and Pilsudski was co-opted by the counter-revolution. But ed by four rapacious neighbours most, generous,
into its puppet Government. He Pilsudski hesitated to press his Russia, Austria, Prussia and But it was not enough. In resigned in 1917 when the Ger- claims as he feared he might the Scandinavian Empire across 1830 and again in 1863 revolt mans refused the formation of overthrow the Soviets and put the Baltic. In the complicated against Russian rule broke out, an independent Polish Army, in a conservative government game of power politics that but the yoke was not to be He was gaoled in Magdeburg, that would insist on the return Europe was playing in the, shaken off until the whole of where he stayed till the end of of Russia's lost Polish terri- eighteenth century Poland did Europe was at war.
THE decline of Poland
was being closely watch
not stand a chance. The time was ripe for partition.
the
-POLAND'S-role-in-the Great War is complex
the war.
Russin still held Polish terri-
torics.
However, in the spring of 1919 he attacked. He rapidly occupied Vilno, capital of
then Catherine I schemed-for-
In Russia Peter the Great and
MEANWHILE, one of the Lithuania and launched his an outlet on the Baltic--at the
carliest acts of the scheme of a federation of anti- expense of Poland, Frederick and confusing. The Polish first Russian revolution of Russian States. A month later the Great and his son saw the patriots were divided into two March, 1917, was to announce an he seized Galicia, in order to To millions of Americans future of. Prussia in the con- groups; the Passivists under independent Polish State. join up Poland with Rumania, who, despite their constant and
quest of Poland. Austria's Dmowski, who had abandoned But Russia's humiliating Urged on by France and anxious interest in events in sprawling empire was mostly the hope of independence by re- peace with Germany at Breat- ignoring Russia's opposition Europe, have always had aensation of being spectators status quo.
"interested in maintaining the volutionary means, and the Litovsk destroyed Polish hopes, Pilsudski attacked the Soviet Activists under Pilsudski, who and the Polish Patriots turned Ukraine. It was & mistake. and not players, this realisation
to the Allies. And with success, The Bolsheviks were determined. must produce a profound shock. The break came in 1764 when
Pilsudski, the hero of Poland's The thirteenth of President at all costs to hold the rich The creed of Neutrality, Catherine manoeuvred one of revival, went to Tokyo in 1904 Wilson's Fourteen Points. made Ukraine, and Red armies under which has been the foundation her cast-off lovers, Stanislas when the Russo-Japanese war Poland an independent nation Tukhachevsky launched an offon- of American thought for the Poniatowski, on to the Polish had broken out and had asked on the principle of self deter- sive on the Northern front. past twenty years, has been throne.
Vilna fell. The Red armies undermined in a single day.
had not.
for arms. They were refused, mination.
Catherine used the pretext of so he returned to Austrian Po- When Pilsudski was released marched on into Poland, right If Britain and France should Jesuitical religious intolerance, land and there organised rifle from prison after the Armistice to the gates of Warsaw. Pil- be defeated, Germany would be in Poland further to impose her clubs. When war broke out he things began to move more sudski's arms supplies were held master of the world, and the control, but the Poles hated position of the United States Russian influences intensely that would be desperate, But to 錢 four years' guerrilla war ensure that Britain France cannot possibly
and ensued. This, combined with sus- threats on Russia from Tur- tain, defeat, the United States key and. Austria, persuaded must prepare to abandon all the Catherine that she could get
old conceptions of Neutrality. most of what she wanted
This is the bitter decision the through Partition, United States faces to-day. So in 1772 the first Partition That is why the decision Ameri- Treaty of Poland was signed. ca must take is not one that will The Polish Diet was bullied and henceforth be endangered by bribed into accepting the loss of filibustering "party politics, and a third of Poland's territory. why Republican and Democratic Russia took a large portion, leaders, at Inst alive to the Austria took Galicia, Prussió situation, are meeting at the took West Prussia. White House to-day to thrash The shock awakened Poland out together the problem of Do- and there was a brief period of mocracies versus Totalitarians | intelligent. reform. Patriotic as it affects the greatest Domo cracy of all,
It is certain that events in Europe during the past week have weakened Isolationism. It is equally certain; however, that positive aid for the Allies will be forthcoming only in the face of stern opposition from the minority led by Senator Borah.
America may atlil healtato against aiding the Democracica. But the indications are that, at the very least, the Noutrality Act will be revised on Septem. ber 26 in such fashion that the foreign policy dictated by that legislation will no longer operate injuriously Britain
to France, as it does to-day.
and
feeling broke out again and the withdrawal of Russian troops was demanded. But "fifth- column" tactics of the aristo- cracy .preserved Catherine's power, and the spread of danger- ous ideas of freedom from the French Revolution led her to engineer the second Partition of Poland in 1798.
Poland na a country was ex- tinguished.
ONE man kept the patrio- .tic firo alight. Kos- cluszko was in Parth hoping to get all for Poland. He falled, but alone he led Tb Poles against Russia and drove them
GRIN AND BEAR IT
dian
up by both Czechs and Ger- mans. Danzig dockers struck
munists.
By Lichty in sympathy with the Com
"We may as well head back north, Stonewall--the socloty photographers are beginning to thin out.'
PILSUDSKI alone had not lost hope. On August 16, 1920; he counter-attacked and turned the Russian flank outside Warsaw, and the retreat hegan. With the treaty of Riga in March, 1021, the war ́ was ended.
Probably Pilsudski could have got even batter teriza. But, as it was, only 15 per cent, of the five millions that became Polish under the treaty were of Polish nationality.
Poland as it now is contains minorities of about 750,000 Ger- mans, 5,000,000 Ukrainians and 1,500,000 White Russians. It is. by no means an ethnical unity..
Nevertheless, Foland in the years since the war built herself into a great nation, with a great pride in her history and in the |efforts that “had creatéd: her
anew.
Poland last year had a popula- tion of 35,000,000, an increase of [8%1⁄2 millia (nearly half a mil- lion a year) since the war. Or European countries this was by far the highest birthrato. As 2 consequence Poland had a very |low average aget