The Prime Minister in reply said that the Government were
watching the plots subsidized by foreign money. He did not believe that, if the general health of the nation was good, we
need fear the Communists. Mr. Gwynne asked him whether we were to " wait and see," to which he retorted that we • must " watch and pray." The Prime Minister then spoke very frankly about the grave situation in Upper Silesia. Poland had no claim to any part of it except on the ground that many Poles had settled in the mining districts. The Plebiscite Commis- sioners could not agree on the method of dividing the province. The British and Italian Commissioners wished to give the overwhelmingly Polish districts to Poland, and the mixed urban and rural districts in which there was a German majority to Germany. Before the Allies could consider their -report, M. Korfanty had raised a Polish insurrection and occupied the districts claimed by Poland, in flat defiance of the Peace Treaty. The Prime Minister said with emphasis that if the Allies did not administer stern justice in dealing with Upper Silesia, the peace of Europe would be in danger.
