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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 24
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% gone out to secure what they dt ire, quite on »cars. I \ HI before the armistice was signed, l'< mans sposition of Lemberg and F and thc\ arc still hunting. Since Noveml has been following sympathetically, or with nate advance and retreat of Polish t> r. .«: all points of the compas" about their distracted land, not only in bitter contest with Germans in the Prussian Polish provinces of 1 ast Prussia, Posen, and Silesia to the north and northwest, and in Lithuania to the northeast, but also with the newly liberated Czeeho-Slovaks on their southwestern border where the tiny region of Teschcn, with its coal fields, is in hot dispute between the two peoples. There is also conflict with Bolshevik Russians wherever the two encounter, and under cover of this Red bugaboo, new Poland announces that at the request of the President of the new Lithuanian Republic, Poland has taken over "pro\ isionally" the administration of Lithuania. Thus the impetuous energy of the Poles forges a fiery circuit of Mars about them welded complete and fast but for that uncongenial segment m the due north — the Baltic Sea! And for the most part this militant aggressiveness is on behalf of that "large, strong Poland," economically independent, capable of sustaining the powerful forces which must in future be brought to bear on a buffer state so strategically placed nay in the magnified imaginations of the truly far-visioned, a state o?L*zt i::z? r ifiC y edr e henceforthgreatRussia>; mi ht r ,eas ia e * >- - part?e rouT u ,' ^ ° ' ^ * the now dominant o 7 Z L 7 e n ^ " J***™** himself expresses the opinion 8 f d , W f o » W ~ " T h e i n ^ I of ^ ° — > - e n when he writes as P wM nomically i n d e p e n d e n T ^ L T V W ^ K ^ ° ' "* " * ed thr Ugh plete union of all provinces once M " " ** *^° ° ' ST bel ,n to a Poland with access to t h . u °"S g the Polish crown. Only a n 2 i g wiU b e a b l e t o maintain direct relations with E n l ' n H v * ° America And with the mines of Silesia, h e r a n d e T * ' *"* ' ''' ^ P I a n d be aUe acquire economic independence of C ^ ^ ^ ° * erman to population, and to check excessive /* y> support her surplus A NeW should be a continuation of thai"which T T ' u " ' ot ***** not find again the ideal which she h u " ' herwise she cane w n soul plan to cut out a certain cart of *k- T ' " I ° - If one should 14 f the N W Pola modify
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