TITLE

A NEW POLISH CORRIDOR

AUTHOR(S)

Vollmer, Clement

PUB. DATE

October 1933

SOURCE

Foreign Affairs;Oct33, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p156

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article discusses the Europe's most dangerous geographical problem, the Polish Corridor, and its potential for war between Germany and Poland. The Polish Corridor is the source of bitter controversy and threats of war between Germany and Poland. The plan is for the present Corridor and Danzig to be returned to Germany, and a new corridor to be granted to Poland along the Neman just inside the present easternmost limits of East Prussia. Anyone who has had the opportunity of personally examining the situation in and around the present Polish Corridor can have no doubt regarding the gravity of the emotional situation, which has been created there. The Free State of Danzig, cut off from Germany by the Versailles Treaty, but still strongly conscious of its ninety percent German character, has been the prey of rival propagandas and been in constant uncertainty and distress. Germany's bitterness at what she terms not only the humiliation but also the economic and political absurdity of cutting her territory in two in order to satisfy the desire of another people for direct access to the sea, has grown steadily and has received new strength since Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. The feeling in Poland is equally strong. There can be no general feeling of security in Europe, no thoroughgoing disarmament, no complete return to stable prosperity, until this tension has been diminished.

ACCESSION #

14781242

Tags: WAR;  INTERNATIONAL relations

 

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