Last July we noticed a book by Sir Robert Donald,
called The Polish Corridor and the Consequences, which was mainly propaganda in favour of the revision of the Treaty of Versailles to the advantage of Germany on her Eastern frontier. In answer to Sir Robert there now appears an English translation of M. Casimir Smogorzewski's Poland, Germany and the Corridor (Williams and Norgate, 6s.) which had already been published in French, and presumably in Polish. It is no more impartial than the other. We all agree that the past history of Poland was more discreditable to the chief Continental Powers than to herself. The Allied and Associated Powers in Paris, when bound to pronounce a heavy sentence On Germany, were certainly influenced by sentiment in favour of Poland, and she may well rest content with the results of the Treaty, and say nothing. Energy, such as she has sbown in creating the port of Gdynia, is better propaganda than any words. Her problems of domestic government are 'enough to occupy her without any aggressive • policy in Danzig or East Prussia. The Corridor is a makeshift which serves its purpose fairly satisfactorily. In time we hope to see some better scheme devised for fulfilling that purpose and peaceably brought by the League of Nations into per- niainient work. There is plenty of useful information in M. Smogorzewski's book, as there was in Sir Robert's, but we object to such statements as that the plebiscite taken in Allenstein and Marienwerder "was grotesque." On the centrary impartial observers found it as satisfactory as the Schleswig plebiscite. The Upper Silesian was, we admit, very different. * * * •
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