External difficulties

External difficulties

Day (11 XI 1918) Weapon suspension, joyful in the west, He passed cloudy over Poland. We were still awaiting liberation and struggles with our own weakness. The Parisian committee was anxiously looking at the Polish map of Poland. Western powers did not approve her. Seyda and Dmowski's missions to the States (in summer) [1918 r.] have achieved this effect, that American Polonia, Before that worked by the so -called. Kon for activists, The wall stood at the Paris Committee, But Wilson with our rights in the West was expressed restrained, and the powerful Jews on Wall Street agitated against such Poland,in which their brothers will not be co -host. French government (min. Pichon) He declared completely behind Dmowski's plan, In English, he came to an increasing advantage, at the expense of Balfour, Lloyd George enemy Poland. When Polish envoys came to Paris for help for help for Lviv, Dmowski refused to try for intervention, Because Poles themselves have to recover this city -they will lose them forever from the Allied judgment. How they recovered. 22 November [1918 r.] relief from Krakow (with Tokarzewski) she replaced the Ukrainians. Ci, retreat, They released criminal prisoners. There was a disorder, Among which social scum, different origins, tunted hostile to Jews, partly for their supposedly neutral, And a really anti -Polish attitude, They made a pogrom. OK died. 70 Jews, for which the Polish authorities shot several dozen culprits. News about 3000 murdered and three coalition governments, not stopping at the announcement of the Paris Committee, that Poland will take protection and equality of all citizens without a difference of breed and confession, They occurred with a number of dangerous warnings. It was, among others. for forcing the promise, that Poland will accept all Jews escaping from Russia. And to the sound of Polish self -defense from Galicia, England reacted again with a warning, that Poles are not allowed to create facts made. This emphasis significantly suppressed the energy of Polish liberation movements. In Greater Poland, the leaders of Poles: Wł. Seyda, Trumpery, Korfanty was holding hotter elements on the reins, Organizing the District Sejm (3 XII 1918 r.) and the Supreme People's Council, but by no means encouraging the uprising. In Cieszyn Silesia, the Czech Narodni Vybor concluded with the Polish National Council (5 XI) [1918 r.] demarcation settlement, according to which the Czechs were to receive in accordance with the ethnographic principle, only 1/4 part of the area, Frydecki poviat and a scrap of Frysztacki. Things in the east were the most clever. From there, the German army of several hundred thousand was to pull through Poland, unwashed. Behind her could pour crowds of the Bolsheviks, who really took the Germans right after the departure (4 And 1919 r.) Vilnius. It appeared between the resurrection of the Republic of Poland and [Russia] Soviet without notice – War for Kresy.

Maczewski's government had no head or heart, To do all this. Piłsudski disregarding Dmowski's work, Not much care for Poznań, Silesia, Pomerania, A little more about Lviv, He made strength to regain Lithuania – possible historical. For this purpose, he needed harmony with Germany, and therefore, according to the previous contract, he accepted Kessler as the first accredited diplomat in Warsaw. He wrote to "Dear Mr. Roman", that he wants to cooperate with him [after] over the parties, which meant, that he would allow the management of his people over the Seine, that Piłsudski will decide on our eastern matters especially, And Moraczewski will rule on the Vistula River.

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