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The frontiers of - cl~nd muot be euch se to ennble ber to Eerve effecttrely --s a partner In the internntional security system. with’regi ¹    ibution of reeppnaifcili ty    v eecurity*

Polsnćrs orc-wor frontiers did not r tV fy i;Ms cohditlon. The Foland ©8i blic "d n 1.91? wno cm out| ost of oo-pitnlist int,erven-on agalnst the Russieh E* Lution* Prominent Ib its r o 1 structurc wns t e 1 md lord element, ownir.fr V3jst estetea in the Ukrainę, bite Ewb-1 cid in Lithuanio. The chief concern of Folish policy v/r<i , therefore_T territorial onpaneion in the F.-ist.

The reećtionery Polish gewernraent ’ 0 o .rtly Begl ictećl to ureuo Polnnd^fs clnim ’n the "est, itartly tnesg Cu lms diJ. uot. aeet with the sympathy o ^J    G8 i srh t- . T    cel tori r- s v. ' th a

pdprtt- t! om were left with Germany lin Unper

Silesia and in s out hem Beat Prusaia), and Poland    d to

the threat cf « st-h l.n the back frotn Sist Iruoeia by n reeurgent German roili tarłem. The Polish populetion tXKX in these terri-tories wae lrter i ost ryihli-esly . erer eut-:d by th© Nazis ( while the German rrinofrity in . ol nd wsu= /rrented, unner Beck, nil kinde cf speclal prlv1.le-es; • The new Fol^c,nd will not ho n outpoat ( “ inst the £ovirt tinion, but c nenber of • secui* ■ ty system centercćl <-rcund tle ’oviet Ur.icn. Thir f-Tt detertnines : -r ćif-ference between pro-war md tte ppst-wsr frcntiers of Pol nad,

,    Petauel mbonld    vp 11 of Upper Gileain. Jn 1) per Silesia

Iso In tbet    J.cnrcd to Germany)

the pena ant b and workaro -re prevsilinfrły. Polish, while 1 ie upper rd Ger    • return ot t ie i i Pol    ntry to

Pol md is tlv&s r step toward . ocinl democr cy, nz -cli n cct of national tfustfcee. At the    tine a reunion of ti.e whole

Folieh population of Upper Silesia with Pol and will deprive Germany of an ' jportsnt part of her war 'nduotriee. Inatoad. of prpvidin / roaources for ag^ression, which - nev Gerr. ui mili tary ue m ba tenipted to ut *.e, ^! e u. s bri( s 111 be put to the tervice of peaceful reconctruction. This will t loc.st comper.ante in <: irt t .c dey^stntion wtieh Poland haa suffered at the hahds of Gerr-^y.

Put. CT, '■?'    : i;ic. -'olató •'.,',•'.>1! Jjr .C':p . •    },. ?c.yęr^iniity,

py^r "-y --t fr . i C ©xc©^v,t :’or o e: cal p rt of it, 'v’.iicTi •* s T v ^y*bite< by LTfSi ^:i-r'.3). This demand cunnot be fuli •• supr or1 * d cn K«^ax*3ę ©thnogrr~hic rrrounde. Horever, a 1 rge ęection of the poj.al©tioń c of ⁷<".rt rrrri© 1p still polish-speaklng( the Kazuriane). nd even a larg© port hif been Grrmnniaed go recently tort. *t would revrrt to Pollen netlo ;?.lity under the morę influence of f.-e new politieal V roifiment (without ny coerciom)_f In the l?st r. lobia ci tć thia Polish^spe i'x3.vg popul tlon voted mostl;, for Gerracny, becauee,

bed Proteetant, t sy feared Catliollc '    ' n. The    1

ar.d oUtlc    post-war Poland will be srnoh, that no

8uch fe i- r • need he outert- ^;ned_f

But ovrr thourh the ma jor i ty of ?t Pru88la'8 por* 1 tlen ie (temem-eparking, Folieh i overeignity    t. rt prcv'ne i

neceseary for liurone*8 pclltioal ctibility d for cff^ctiye i ni] lei n' * ' ■    I oli8h-Czeeh081 ov-.k-Sovi et roilitary slliimoe.

The natianaiity rinćiple esnnot be treated as a fotieh, but is subject to Gorrectidna in the Internet of the stability of Burore* bnder r.o circuTrt‘imces c-m 5^c»st I rueeia be allowed to rr rert to Germany. Por Enet Prussia is the land of the Junkers. Por centurei

it her been the breedi ig ground of Pruasian ndUtarłem mnd of ti.e