Show POLISH CABINET NET RATIFIES PACT ACTION INVOLVES RECOGNITION OF SOVIET AND MAY LEAD TO RA RAPPROCHEMENT If f New Leader Returns Control Polands Poland's Recovery May Be Rapid People eople Await Awalt Outcome With Interest Washington Announcement from Warsaw tl that at the Polish government has ratified a treaty which Involves the to recognition of the soviet republic Is one of the first concrete evidences evidence of the fact that with the coming of kl Poland has lias at last fallen Into firm hands No country has haa suffered more since the war that is in the Polish case ll e since it recovered liberty and unity than Poland She has been attacked attack attack- attacked ed by enemies and a Russian Invasion has lias almost reached liar her capital and not only demolished her lIer Independence independence dence but brought Bolshevism to the confines of western Europe She has also also been crippled by steady hostility coming from countries like Britain from which she might have e exp expected friendly support Of all the countries which wEre were cre ere or expanded by the world war warthe warthe warthe the problems of l Poland oland have been the bravest To reunite three fractions of the Polish patrimony long held In Subjection by three throe military Empires namely Germany Austria and Russia Rus Itus ala sia to bring about any Internal unity this in a period of actual peace would have ha been a difficult lt task Rut But Poland Po 10 Io land has been threatened from without with with- out threatened by Russia perpetually perpetual perpetual- ly menaced by Germany and at times an object of or h hostility both in London and in Rome home In the completion of the reunion of Polish lands there have line been many long disputes With Slovakia Czecho there has been the debate over Tess Tess- chen then which was settled and that of Javorina which is still under r dis With Lithuania there has been the long quarrel over o Vilna VUna only recently settled by the council of am With Russia there was the question of the Uie wh whole le eastern frontier including the title to eastern Call Galicia cia In the main this dispute was settled by y treaty of Riga following fol fol- following lowing the defeat of ot the tile Russian invasion in in- In of Poland but it is only in inthe inthe inthe the current year that the eastern matter was disposed of by bythe bythe bythe the great powers who ruled In Polands Po 10 lands land's favor With Germany directly the ques lion of Upper Silesia was long tong a cause couse of conflict and even of ot peril to J European Euro Iuro- uro- uro penn at last by the thi league of nations the settlement las lai as never been accepted in id good faith by bythe bythe bythe the Germans s and the same slime is s true o othe of the Danzig compromise of the treaty of Versailles Vt For the Poles the tin Danzig problem has never been really adjusted and the German government go of this town has hus sought in every way to hamper Polish access to the sea Underneath all else In the tle Poll si situation lies Ues the present ever peril perl that Germany and Russia a agreeing some day in the future may seek t to repeat the partitions ot of the last cen cen tunes No permanent adjustment with Germany has bas ever er been possible cause there is not the sll slightest Vince inca that a strong Germany would woul i ocr t-cr endure the separation of ot Posen West est Prussia and Upper Galicia although ul al al- though a majority of ot Poles Ioles Is die closed in the census figures of al althree all three regions What has hns been heen debatable de I has been whether some Borne adjustment adjustment ad ad- were conceivable with Rue Rus i sla Ia |