A real spring of nations

Spring 1918 the year she deserved this name, Because it was followed by summer, not autumn, as in the year 1848. The warmth and light among lightning and lead downpour diverged to Europe from the fields of champagne and Lotaryngia, From the trenches of Marshal Foch, where the Germanian track tried to knock out western democracy with the last of his strength. From March every few weeks the Germans were repeated, until they stuck the wedge on 60 Depth kilometers, until they reached the misery again. Many a friend of the coalition drew a heart at the thought of the possible fall of Paris, New Warsaw office of Jan Kante Steczkowski 20 April offered the Covenant to the Germans. The Polish nation with this omnipper of politics had nothing to do. Through winter 1917/1918 Dmowski and Seyda through systems with Benesz and In. They prepared a joint action of the oppressed nations against Austria (Of course, with the exclusion of Ruthenians, as the imperial "Tyroleans of the East"). In April, demands and moves at the Congress in Rome were agreed, Anyway, without the support of coalition managers, who were counting on the detachment of Vienna from Berlin. Appropriate indications went to the country. Here, the bankruptcy of the Austrophil concept was complete in Brest and tried to resolve them in vain [emperor] Karol resignation [Blackberry],

When the Czechs organized the Jubilee of the National Theater in Prague (16-18 V) a delegation hurried there 50 Galician politicians and intellectuals with Jan Kasprowicz at the head, to take part in this most mounted, Westernly the most intended congress- and South Slav and talk about future free intercourse. These conversations later repeated to the scandal of Krakow Austrophils. Already two weeks after the Prague Congress, On the eve of the last German offensive, French rule, English and Italian, Referring to Wilson's points, they declared in Versailles, that creating one, The United and Independent Polish State with free access to the sea is a condition for permanent peace in Europe. It was more than making a mood. American forces have already completely replaced Russia, and created under the auspices of the Parisian Committee "Blue Army", related to the convention with France (Olii III 1918 r.), She was cooking for a sacrificial participation in the victory. Then Steczkowski's government for the suggestion of Janusz Radziwiłł, And under the pressure of the Germans, he signed an unprecedented protest against the Versailles Declaration, with confidence in the central states, What was the protest of Lithuania in the official "monitor" against the Allies by the Allies in favor of Poland.