Word: polese
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The Premier is either delightfully optimistic or else a very clever talker. If Russia is content to wait, why the armies launched against the unoffending Poles? Why that New Year's message last year, which so confidently stated that by the time the world should be writing another January First...
That is only what should have been done long ago. Poland, aside from the fact that she needs a seaport of her own in order to thrive commercially, has certain legal jurisdictions over the city, and also the right to improve the harbor, waterfront, railways, and the other public utilities...
"In fact the new territory assigned to Poland, mainly either territory that has a majority of Poles, as is the case in the whole region between Congress, Poland, and Vilna, or else territory inhabited by Catholic White Russians who, as I explained before, are really closer to the Russians.
"Similarly, people often talk as if the so-called White Russians were an integral part of the Russian nation, regarding it a crime for Poland to lay any claim to any part of this population. In fact, however, the White Russians are a people who religiously, linguistically, historically, and geographically...
"In the demarcation line laid down in the armistice just concluded at Riga, which will presumably be the frontier adopted in the future peace treaty, it seems to me that the Poles have marked out a very reasonable and just frontier. It is true that this line is far east...