Word: vilna
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...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...
...Vilna Not a Lithuanian City...
...doubt very much, however, whether the newspapers or the people making these charges against Poland have any definite knowledge as to the very complex racial character of the territories demanded by Poland. They talk about Vilna, so warmly claimed by the Poles, as if it were a Lithuanian city to which Poland had no right. As a matter of fact, there are only two thousand Lithuanians in the city, while the Poles are over fifty per cent of the population. The whole district surrounding it is overwhelmingly Polish...