Versailles Treaty

6 Maja Plenary Peace Conference listened to the summary of the Treaty with Germany, which the next day was announced the latter with a selection, that they can report ideas only as to how to implement the already established rules. The Germans protested and not without effect, because in further fairs they have achieved more than one substantive change. Instead of originally awarded 56,5 [thous.] km2 z 5 millions of population, Poland will receive 45,5 [thous.] z 3 millions. Ultimatum was formulated 29 house, w 30 days later in the Mirror Hall of Versailles Dmowski and Paderewski signed a treaty in a number of other signatories. The borderline was carried out according to ethnographic data in this way, that the former Greater Poland City of Piła did not return to the Commonwealth, Shaft, Intercourse, Wschowa and others; From East Prussia, we received only Działdowo without a plebiscite; from the western belt tapering towards the sea, which will easily be called a corridor to Polish enemies, Only a piece was immediately awarded from Silesia (Railway Leszno-Rawicz).

German subjects who lived in Polish acquired Polish citizenship, But those who settled after 24 April 1886 r. they had to obtain permission from the Polish government. Within 2 Germans and Poles on both sides of the cordon could opt for one or the other homeland. In Upper Silesia, within the limits set by the powers, with a two million population, take place [had] plebiscite, Just like in Prussian Masuria. In the Pomeranian area (which from now on Germans and English began to call the corridor) Freedom of communication between the Reich and East Prussia [has been assured]. It was decided about Gdańsk, that the Germans renounced […] above 1 900 km2 terrain, which belong [had] to a free city. Receive [it had] constitution, what he will arrange with the high commissioner of the main powers. Commissioner of the League of Nations [had] Disputes between Gdańsk and Poland. More specifically, Gdańsk-Polish relations [she had] A mutual agreement according to the indications of the powers, so arranged, that Gdańsk belongs to the Polish customs area, that Poland would conduct external affairs of the city and look after its citizens abroad. Further Poland was to manage the Vistula and the railway network in Gdańsk area, and to control postal connections between Poland and Gdańsk were to use urban devices needed for transport and export. Poles in Gdańsk gained equality. The property of the Reich in Gdańsk was transferred to Gdańsk or Poland.

Borders of the Southern Treaty of the Power of Austria in Saint Germain (10 IX 1919 r.) nor a treaty with Hungary in Trianon [4 VI 1920 r.] he did not describe, Because Rzeczpospolita was not to be adjacent to these countries; This case remained to the decision of the powers. The case of the eastern borders remained in suspension for the longest time. Western countries tried to mark the territory with various "lines", on which the resurrected state would be organized, and in these lines a variety of policy towards the East was discreetly expressed. England would like Eastern Galicia preferably – against the will of the vast majority of its inhabitants – tsarist Russia, But this was gone. The Bolsheviom could not admit it, which the Soviet government tried to undermine. In the state -forming ability of the "Tyroleans of the East", hardly anyone believed in Paris and London. Among these doubts she was born, in the form of a unilateral diplomatic message, Curzon line (Peninsula, Bug), whose southern part was lost somewhere east of San; Originally, it was to demarcate only Poles and Ukrainians during the truce. Another line was marked by a foch between Poles and Lithuanians (18 VII1919 r.) along the Nemunas, Parallel to the Grodno-Wilo-Dyneburg railway line. 21 September 1919 r. The Supreme Council decided to grant Poland for years 25 Area east of San, with this, that later take place there [had] plebiscite (Sejm, except for socialists, He protested against this resolution). At last, 8 December 1919 r. Poland was allowed to organize the administration of the country in Congress and Białystok, But without the northern part of the Suwałki region.

The sentence regarding the "Curzon line" contains some inaccuracies. This line was supposed to be temporary (during peace negotiations) demarcation line separating Polish armies from the Bolshevik. Its course was proposed by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain – Lord Curzon in the message with 11 July 1920 r. directed to the Foreign Commissioner of Foreign Affairs of Russia G.W.. Czyczerina. This line ran near Suwałk-Grodna-Brzeście Lithuanian and further along the Bug, up to the former Galician border. On this episode it was identical to the proposed 8 December 1919 r. Through the western powers of the eastern border of reborn Poland. He agreed to such a marked line of suspension of the weapon 9 July 1920 r. At SPA, Prime Minister Władysław Grabski seeking for military help for Poland. Mentioned one -sidedness "refers to both, that a certain victory Russia Bolshevik did not answer at all to Curzon's proposal, how and for this, that the British proposal extended a possible demarcation line on the territory of the former Galicia, which was not agreed with the Polish Prime Minister. On this episode, Curzon left only Przemyśl on the Polish side.