Further work of the Polish delegation in Paris

The day before signing the peace treaty with Germany, Clemenceau handed the Polish delegation a project of another contract: About Polish citizenship, which was later called a treaty with national minorities. It was impossible to protest, because too [This step] He was not without precedents; Admittedly, which have long been reached by national uniformity were feared, that Poles oppressed from three sides, Like no other, they want to use hacatistic methods for their minorities, which could be calculated at that time for millions. A similar treaty was also imposed on Romania.

The equality was then reserved for all state citizens without a difference of religion and nationality, the ability to use your own language at the assemblies, The right to set up your own schools, Teaching in your own language in state initial schools in areas with a predominance of a given minority, Participation in public funds for cultural, religious and beneficial purposes. Distributed Jewish population was entitled to special engagement. This treaty signed for coercion, unninders to traditional Polish tolerance, He harmed more to Innolemias than he helped, Because he dared them for anti -state action among the members of the League of Nations and tightened the self -defense instinct in Poles.

Paderewski, even more drastic, was even more drastic an hour before the Versailles act, another commitment – that Poland will take over some of the obligations of tsarist Russia. This case was included in the scope of economic consequences of the reconstruction of Poland, which he was watching over, As a delegate of the Republic of Poland, Władysław Grabski. This statesman from the beginning of the 20th century, as a researcher and social activist, then as a member of the liquidation commission in Russia (1917-18), He worked on creating the basics of the state's economic independence. Many provisions of the great treaty were taken over the heads of smaller countries, But for settlements with Germany and Austria, they were allowed. It was difficult to defend the thesis, that Poland fought with Germany (not on the side of Germany), So her, and not from it to others, compensation is entitled to compensation. England forced the thesis, that the newly created countries should pay to the general compensation fund the value of government ownership of the partitioning partners in its area, The exception was made for forests, which were older after all, than partitions. After dismembered Austria, the obligations did not fall on Poland (12% total amount 15 billions of FR. falling on your succession). Polish people entitled to the Reich were to compensate Poland for expropriated real estate. In the Paris Committee of Compensation and in its Vienna section (For settlements with b. Austro-Hungary) The Polish representation played a secondary role, but chronic.

Taking possession of these areas, which Poles did not liberate before the treaty, It took place after the ratification of the same in January 1920 r. Then 10 February Haller made a symbolic act of marriage with the sea in Puck. The same year was to bring the yields of the plebiscites – larger or smaller, depending on the external circumstances, but also from the organizational effort of Poles in the new country.