Incarnation of the Vilnius region

Gene act. Żeligowski directed against the aspirations of Lithuania Kaunas, In Poland, it was welcomed as a correction of pre -sheet error. Politicians in the West, who have set out an ethnographic principle against Poland in Ruthenia, And they ignored her in Silesia, They guessed indignantly, that the general acted at the Belvedere order. They did not want to accept the fact, that there are almost no Lithuanians in Vilnius and the surrounding area, or understand the ideas of Kościuszko and Mickiewicz, for which the crown and Lithuania were one homeland. Piłsudski was in a hurry to improve and appointed the "Central Lithuanian" commissioner Osmołowski, which took care of the nurturing of centrifugal currents according to the federation templates. Because the marshal pulled the league of nations into the case, she plundered a plebiscite in the disputed country. There was already the consent of both sides for this, When the Polish delegate in Geneva Szymon Askenazy also agreed to the Federation. Then the Lithuanians went back – and there was a year -round fair, Not without a taste of intrigue. Minister of the Belgian hymane arranged various combinations for the league and pages, of which the worst simply assigned Vilnius Kown as an autonomous canton. In the Warsaw Sejm, nationalists and Piasts demanded the incarnation of the Vilnius region, Because this is what her population wants; The left supported Piłsudski, which against abroad weakened the unification of Poles, And he won the resistance of abroad, to bet on your own. on the federation. Let Vilnius be the capital of the "Jagiellonian Republic", and this center of Central and Eastern Europe. It stood on this, that the fate of "Central Lithuania" will be decided by the National Sejm. Prime Minister Antoni Ponikowski went hand to Belvedere; The administration was in the hands of Piłsudski -but elections [8 January 1922 r.] did not give an unambiguous result: already 90 fines 43 They got the endeks, 34 The organization of "People's Councils" similar to them, only 13 federalists, There was no Jewish urns, Belarusians and Lithuanians. Despite this, participation (64%) He was huge in the vote, universal enthusiasm. In the Vilnius Congregation itself 96 deputies at 6 abstained, adopted incorporation to the Republic of Poland without any reservations. But when 20 MPs from the Vilnius region came to Warsaw, to join with colleagues in one congregation, Piłsudski put another obstacle – he demanded that the statute be included in the act of the Vilnius region itself. This maneuver was in vain – Nobody demanded the statute, but also none of Poland's enemies would stop there. The north-east lands were divided into Vilnius voivodships, Nowogródzkie, Poleskie. There was a memory on one side from the whole conflict, that the head of the state questioned national recovery towards abroad; across, that the nation had followed Dmowski again and the "Central Lithuania" itself denied its godfather.