Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 24 [PAGE 16]

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to an ardent study of its ancient, more auspicious past. ~ Polish leaden well know what old Poland w a s . H o w can t h e new-born State fe less than the old! This sentimental force is obviously s t r o n g j„ t | K . j r calculation.but these are shaped again, and colored by m a i n other forces, less worthy perhaps, but vigorously insistent, n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g . Since the partitions all the Poles built Up instinctively a powerful strength of opposition • against their oppressors; suddenly t h e d o m i n a n t alien Government] are crashed down, a n d forthwith t h e unrestrained tide of long-pent I ohsh rancor breaks like a d e v a s t a t i n g Hood sweeping all before it, and scarce to be checked. Again, Polish patriots, without exception, declare that they face m their country "black with famine a n d u t t e r destruction" the near and constant menace of Bolshevism, a terror t o them all with.their vehement J-atno le.s.n and their peasant lust for land ownership; this real danger

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