God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

21 GRANICE: The Modern Polish Frontiers (1919-1945) People who live on islands, or on half-continents of their own, find difficu ...

368 GRANICE to imagine that the Poles would simply do as they were told.^2 For twenty-five years, the rights and wrongs of the s ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 369 Galicia. In 1918-19, it was immediately accepted as the natural frontier between Poland and Czec ...

370 GRANICE French company. In the valley of Jabiunkow, in the south, the Austrian census'of 1910 had recorded the purest concen ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 371 maintained a close relationship with the Polish interior was to be found at the mouth of the Vis ...

372 GRANICE German areas. The German element was heavily preponderant in all the cities, from Stettin to Breslau; it dominated a ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 373 defending the industrial area against all assaults. Pitched battles, long since leg- endary, wer ...

374 GRANICE the western Neisse River and along the western Neisse River to the Czechoslovak fron- tier, including that portion o ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 375 ...

376 GRANICE The Curzon Line, approved by the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, on instructions drawn up at Spa, was descr ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 377 The conflict with Lithuania centred on the future of Wilno - in Lithuanian, Vilnius; in Russian, ...

378 GRANICE Map 20. The Distribution of Nationalities, (1921) a) The Region of Wilno b) The Region of Lwow ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 379 nationalist movement was suppressed in Russia, first by Denikin's Whites and then by the Bolshev ...

380 GRANICE In general, the history of modern Polish frontiers makes sad reading for any- one who may have imagined that the map ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 381 The problem is not unique to Eastern Europe, of course. Anglo-Saxons tend to take fright, simply ...

382 GRANICE 'Polish' places were at that period, from what they have since become. Having read Baedeker's description of Breslau ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 383 East, thus betraying their distant origins. But the youngsters, over 50 per cent of the citizens ...

384 GRANICE Tartars, the Principality was unable to withstand the oppression of neighbouring war- lords. In the mid-fourteenth c ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 385 to talk of Wroclaw. A German who prefers the German form no more implies that modern Wroclaw is ...

386 GRANICE sanctify the decision of 1945, was almost as breathtaking as the great Settlement itself. It was as if the builders ...