. The National Civic Federation review . equalffectiveness, declared that statesmen every-•here were agreed that there must be a Polish:ate. Pichon, Clemenceau, and Poincaire inranee have been equally insistent and direct,nd from the Italian Government officials haveome positive pledges. Dr. E. J. Dillon, ofIngland, who is regarded as one of the greatestxperts on Near Eastern affairs, has gone evenurther and declared that but for the mis-hand-ng of the Polish question at the Congress ofrienna, the world war just closed would neverave taken place, because a real Poland wouldave made the German
. The National Civic Federation review . equalffectiveness, declared that statesmen every-•here were agreed that there must be a Polish:ate. Pichon, Clemenceau, and Poincaire inranee have been equally insistent and direct,nd from the Italian Government officials haveome positive pledges. Dr. E. J. Dillon, ofIngland, who is regarded as one of the greatestxperts on Near Eastern affairs, has gone evenurther and declared that but for the mis-hand-ng of the Polish question at the Congress ofrienna, the world war just closed would neverave taken place, because a real Poland wouldave made the German foray of frightfulnessnpossible. Now, while these several declarations areased in part on an appreciation of the suffer-Qgs of the Polish people and the nobility ofheir struggle for statehood during a century?nd a quarter, it must be admitted that theUlied statesmen have also been obliged to re-gard conditions in a materialistic way. Warsall for suffering and for sacrifice, and a merelyentirnental appreciation of the pleas of a peo-. JOHN F. SMULSKI pie hardly justifies the deliberate creation ofconditions which may provoke new wars. Theenthusiasm of the Allied governments for a newPoland is not only because the leaders believethat the Poles deserve freedom and have theability to defend it, but because of their under-standing that a small Poland means a close cor-poration dominated by German influence andwith new wars, while a large Poland will meana real nation standing equal with the othernations throughout the world and peace is not only for Poland, but for themselvesthey are standing. Yet from the beginning thevision of the peoples of Europe as well asAmerica with regard to Polish affairs and pros-pects has been seriously clouded by clever Ger-man propaganda. At the Congress of Vienna,the German leaders appeared with an exact andcomplete understanding of Polish resources andpossibilities, for they had made an intensivestudy of the country, but the French andEng
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