Ponikowski's office

Former activist, Still "Elowiec", Having came to power after the sudden and not very understandable departure of Witos (13 IX 1921), he brought the spirit of agreement and cooperation to the internal relations. If not for this Vilnius drama, You could have winter and spring 1921-1922 of the year to be considered a period of weather and progress. Treasury Minister Michalski, called the "iron broom" was on the way to master inflation. Foreign matters were conducted by a former collaborator of Dmowski, An even former settlement from Lithuania, Konstanty Skirmunt. He finally arranged the incorporation of Silesia, He brought the accents of reconciliation in talks with the Gdańsk delegation to Warsaw in Gościn (Jewelowski), He brought Piltz to visit President Masaryk and Benesza in Prague, To the satisfaction of Paris, to sign a friendship pact (5 XI), The Polish claims to Zaolzia and Jaworzyna were postponed for later. Also the choice of former Ratti nuncio as a pope, under the name Pius XI, He was a favorable event for Poland. Meanwhile, the difficulties were hidden in the east. Piłsudski did not consider the case with the Soviets to be completed, he maintained secret contact with the fun and conspiring revolutionaries in Poland – Emigrantami, And when he came to Warsaw instead of the announced Charge d’Affaires MP Karachan, he didn't give him an audience; The gentlemen were still sought to move the border with demarcation further east. Attempts to strengthen relationships with the Baltic States did not make progress.

After the New Year, anxiety was caused by the invitation of Poland on the initiative of Great Britain to a conference in Genoa, to which Russia and Germany were to send, as powers, After five delegates. Apparently it was about to confirm the peace and revive economic cooperation. Skirmunt delegated there with Gabriel Narutowicz had previously agreed with the diplomacy of the Little Entente and the Baltic States, Paris and London traveled, Everywhere, agreeing on the principle of inviolability of the treaties and respecting the room. On the second Easter holiday, the conference heard the unpleasant news, that Germany and Russians, unacceptable to confidential meetings, They made it themselves [16 April 1922 r.] A confidential pact in Rapallo among themselves. The rest of the diplomacy went in apparent harmony – but to no avail.