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and ix>jLitic<u 'iLttltuuc towarda ¹ oland, to tlie tm^edies throufp which the •'‘olish n tlo& hae pfizr/i&i to that natlotua hrroio 8 wid ani to the grea>^,'rutu.rr which OUfht te j« Polanej lot*    X

Jfafl pnragrapha in Churchill’a Tuoadoy a speech włiioh wr« deweteu to PolJ.nć. wre inapired by bnalc friendohip for t)w I^oliah Ba JLon - a iTiexxlnhip aladrig towarda •ainbliehln,;* a stroni a**¹ independent l^land aa "oue of the lendintf powers ln iSurope", The i riae Uiniater^la llnore ruid undoubtod aerir* to pn>fc«ct i^oland fron the great new danger threatening her en\ to o pen \*aya for her towarda unliatted lnie..on ant ezlstenoe mw aiso evident flora fchose pumunpha#

The principia of real inuependersce for the -oliah.statc la undoubtedly & definite principia of Brltiah polioy ani of that polioy o ohief stecrannn, On tł* other han&₀ aa far aa the rcys towarus seourln£ ł olaikl¹ a aotunl ixvłtpA*ient eartatenue are oonoerned, the a la a mnrked differance on import' nt pointa bettraaa Churełiill ćtfjd tha rltlah bovemacnt on the ona hond and the Tolish Corerment on tire other_f The aeeertion of thia truth ia i«łinful for cvery Polej nevertheleea it owwot be ooncoaled ^ Firat of. *11 Churahiii declared hintoricn    the flritiah v±ew on tłK

queetion oX the Poliah enatom frontier was ex?forsr>ed in 1919 in tha ^ur*a*"L±ne nnd thnt rfctiah polio:/ hnd never ezpreseed ^ifeeiyent dth tha oocupatioo o^TLino by the ^olatiin 1920,

-/hila speakiiy ol* the paat* the foliowi 11.7 f«ota aho ud be str.tedt ^Ahe Kaaoluti^o paseed by the Supremę Ooonsix of ^Ailied lowera on Deo. fith, 1919 oonocraing tne te»-pornry eoatern frontier did not deal nt all with the territory of the Goliuia ol* that ti/je; it bepm at the -point froca whtre the forraer łfwhd ffua inn and -uatro-yun^ rian frontiera hod net, ond tliua af 1 eoted only foitaer Imperial ^uaaian territorie*

the aloima whloh oirjod resenred", Troa thia it li eona r&rmatu with her

ia ^Jhuchill eauecia^ r&iae-i the leatter of lino it should be .-nentioneć th'.t in the ^vlino ozea the popul tlon ahows eitber an ab00lute or reiatirc i olish na *ority, '■e*

tiiir lji the.    -fcW*    a- xx*t ui fci-_r^ > ^,lłt    Yilno ram; a

tew»^ith.-a.    rollak aAjoetUyw 1* ntemKt- 5!^ br nentidaBrt *f~* «h«a?r tha Sad ó+kw*tkm* itort Waiff -ww to he amelmi oeer te ^lthtmni>tn and net * ariet tmjpnr

Abovt all towar the fncts that oii &vrch i^tlu 1923 the ‘^ouncil of -'ijfcwr-mlorr. took a reoolution on behalf of Gt« rrltaih# rrnce, Huly nnd Jap. n, reoofnleinc tha whoie enatem frontier of -tiland ani th t the tt.S. 1. did iha oa.e on ^prl.l 5th* 198i The Polish ełiCtem frontier waa reoo^ileed in thia wąy at a tiae when G-Ubrit^in' s forei/^n polipy \ma /oiideci by Lord °urxon hbneolf*

lliaae aie historio fauta; the’/ are not Tpllah rlocunenta bat thooe of leadin* allied authorir.ies* it is 011 the barie 01¹ t/łeae hiatorij faota and tlwiec tuiicd jdocuoenta thnt V* 2’oliah rovt* hos taktn tde t.eiTolnea . tarli of rrfiain_r ti»e ao-o^illed Curzon ^dne aa the futurę Toliah-^yict frontier, The J'olioh Covt. fili łz>ld