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Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-29 | Page 6 | Polish Crisis Predicted in 1919

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Date 1939-08-29
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City Salt Lake City
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Article Title Polish Crisis Predicted in 1919
Type article
Date 1939-08-29
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 6
OCR Text Polish Crisis Predicted in f 1919 9 9 T THE HE European war situation continues s preS precarious precarious precarious pre pre- carious with little change i in i- ithe the past 72 S hours S f Hitler has indicated a desire to avoid war probably pressed on b by Mussolini to seek some bloodless victory without precipitating the conflict that every nation ratIon and world leader Jeader leaderS S fears However h he ha demands considerable sacrifices sacrifices sac sac- on Polands Poland's part Britain and France Prance on the other hand have declared that they will not riot be parties to another Munich that any settlement must be satisfactory to Poland and not entail virtual surrender to nazi domination of ot that vital eastern burr in Germanys Germany's flank Whether between those two stands there is any possibility of ot a compromise solution which S will avoid war is problematical As Senator Pittman of Nevada said in Salt Lake City Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day nobody knows more than you do about the chances chance for war or peace The present Polish German-Polish crisis was forecast forecast forecast fore fore- cast as long ago as 1919 At the time Germany was compelled by the World war defeat to accept the terms of the Versailles treaty German German Gernan Ger Ger- man nan representatives at the peace conference declared The attempt to make Danzig a free city and to surrender der its means of communication tion and the representation of its rights abroad to the Polish state would lead to violent opposition opposition opposition and to a continuous state of war in the cast Since then despite the fact that as a temporary temporary temporary tem tem- measure of convenience ce Germany signed a pact with Poland in 1934 the question of Danzig and the corridor has been the most likely source of war in Europe The questions of the German rearmament rearmament ment demilitarization of the Rhineland Austro- Austro German the and all Memel-all all of which like the Polish issue were fruits of the Versailles treaty were treaty were minor minorS S points of dispute compared to Danzig and the corridor Throughout his Versailles Versailles' treaty breaking career Hitler has cannily chosen thos-en progressively the weakest point in the armor of the ex allies for attack First it was rearmament then the then refortification of the Rhineland seizure of Austria the Munich grab of the with resultant collapse of CzechoSlovakia Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- slovakia then MemeL Now X Noat at last it is Danzig and the Polish corn corn- corri corri- Odor dor No other important revision of the Ver- Ver VEr- VEr except Alsace Lorraine e return of which t to the reich reich Hitler Hitler has fore fore- fore fore- sworn Sworn not not that that means anything with his amazing capacity for breaking his pledges and promises It hardly seems possible the Polish dispute will ever be finally resolved short of either surrender of the corridor and Danzig to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many or a general war in which Germany is again defeated The issue may possibly beS be S postponed now without complete surrender of the Polish territories to Germany Germany but but that is isS S doubtful Every month that passes makes the called so-called peace front opposing Germany stronger Hitler knows that i if he does docs not get Danzig and the corridor now without war he will be much less likely to get them in the theS S future without a conflict And yet it is inconceivable inconceivable inconceivable incon incon- that nazi Germany will abandon a aS S fight Sight which started 20 years ago even before the treaty was signed Therein lies the real danger That the irresistible irresistible irresistible irre irre- force of Germanys Germany's demand for wiping out this major World war lose los will meet the theS S immovable rock of Polish-British-French Polish refusal refusal refusal re re- re- re to give in It may be that such an impasse would force Hitler to gamble everything on l war now S
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