Polish delegation in Paris

Until the beginning of April, As long as Paderewski installed a new government in Warsaw, Dmowski with Erazm Piltz and Marian Seyd mainly guarded matters [on the launched 18 January 1919 r.] peace conference. The committee continued to exist as the chief body of Polish foreign policy and had complete support of the government and the Sejm. After all, since people from Belvedere settled in it, A lot of energy was wasted on "basic" discussions on the relationship of the committee to Piłsudski. Then there were ideological differences; ultimately Dłuski, Sokolnicki, Sujkowski and comrades made an effort over the liquidation of the committee, when that rebuilt Poland. Near Avenue Kleber, where the committee and delegation of the Republic of Poland were located, On Rue Lauriston Piłsudski devoted another, better policy, for which they made separate propaganda. Anyway, committee propaganda skillfully penetrated the various branches of the French opinion. For the efforts of scientific circles and scientific support of our recovery, Franciszek Pułaski brought from the country a professorship office of Congress Works (Kutrzeba, Nitsch, Czech, Halecki etc.), Joachim Bartoszewicz and Leon Lubieński were co -found for borderland matters. On the arrangement of the delegation's territorial program, these experts have not influenced anymore. Everything was prepared by Dmowski with Marian Seyda, Jan Rozwadowski, Romerem. This program approved in January by Piłsudski, of course, dismissed the boundaries of the first partition, He included East Prussia in the state, Upper Silesia, 3/4 part of Cieszyn, Wypisz and Orava; In the east, they wanted to recall the Catholic part of Belarus with Minsk, Kamieniec and Płoskirowski poviats, Volhynia and Polesia, adjacent to this line, also Polish Livonia with Daugavpils. In the Lithuanian triangle over the Lower Nemunas, an independent state would be created in the Union with Poland without Vilnius, And with the capital in Kaunas.

Deviations in the East from the ethnographic principle were justified by the fact of the long -term erecting Polish population and culture by the tsarist, economic and strategic necessities – in the foreground of Bolshevism. The delegation without activists was the selection of forces for the challenge – But these tasks, in the face of the spreading coalition and the decaying forces growing after the war, They were heavy.