A timely and useful monograph is Silesia Revisited 1929, by
Lt.-Col. Graham Seton Hutchison (Simpkin Marshall, 2s. Ocl.); The author was a member of the Upper Silesia Plebiscite Com- mission, 1920-21, and knowing the conditions as he does, he is able to disentangle the skein of Polish and German pro- paganda, so that we can form a sure judgment on the issues with which the Council of the League has recently been con- cerned. In common with all who have really studied the
Silesian question (cf. the recent articles by the Berlin corre- spondent of the Times) he insists that the economic factor is the decisive one. The upshot of his argument may be gathered from the following : " Great Britain is menaced in the Baltic with a serious new rival, namely Poland, whose export power is based upon the lowest wage rates in• Europe, and a consequent standard of life at a deplorably low level. Is Britain blind ? " The italics are ours.
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