Word: silesia
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...League of Nations asked for a ruling as to its competency to deal with the question of German minorities in Poland. It appears that the Polish Government has been expelling German colonists from their holdings in Upper Silesia. The Germans, following a practice inaugurated by Bismarck in 1886, occupied holdings granted by the German Colonization Commission (an organization for the Germanization of German Poland). The Polish Government now considers these holdings as its property under Article 256 of the Treaty of Versailles; it will not recognize leases granted before Nov. 11, 1918, by the German Government to German nationals since...
...Czecho-Slovakia?the recognition of a Government over a country that did not exist. His triumph was not delayed, for on Oct. 28, 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Narodni Vybor (National Council) took over the governments of the countries of Bohemia, Moravia, Ruthenia, Silesia and Slovakia, which had formerly belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Less than a month later (Nov. 14, 1918) the National Assembly met at Prague?capital of Czecho-Slovakia?and formally declared the State of Czechoslovakia to be a Republic and elected Masaryk, who was in New York, as its first...
...propaganda, and stated that, since the French were inadept at spreading propaganda, they had resorted at the other methods, and were trying to overthrow Germany politically and economically, by separating Bavaria from the rest of the German state, and by depriving Germany of her coal and iron resources in Silesia and in the Saar and Ruhr valleys...
Partisan feeling is at present running high, inasmuch as tomorrow is the date set for holding the plebiscite. The people living in Upper Silesia who are permitted to participate in the voting, number about 600,000, of whom 62 percent are Polish. This number would be sufficient to ensure a Polish victory were it not for the provision in the Versailles Treaty, which permits the return of all the native sons to the plebiscite who were born there before the year 1900. Germany is naturally making every effort to have all those born in Silesia return to their birthplace...
...stakes in this struggle transcend in importance the national issue involved. The wealth of Upper Silesia means so much to Germany as to make the result of the plebiscite a definite factor in the reparations settlement. On that settlement hinges the economic future of Europe. And from the results of the previous plebiscites held in West and East Prussia, it appears that Silesia will follow suit in desiring a German annexation...