IN DEFENCE OF MY COUNTRY - Jędrzej Giertych P-2, THE SETTLEMENT OF VERSAILLES
THE SETTLEMENT OF VERSAILLES
Poland regained her freedom and her statehood in the historical transformation which can he named the settlement of Versailles. In fact, this settlement was established not only iby the treaty of Versailles: also the treaties of Saint-Germain, of Trianon and even the Polish-Soviet Russian treaty of Riga of 1921 (confirmed by the Allied Powers in 11923) belong to it. And moreover, important facts have been created not by treaties, but by a series of “faits accomplis”, which were the result of a number of liberating, national revolutions in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, in Yugoslavia and elsewhere. But without any doubt, the cornerstone of the system of Versailles was the treaty of Versailles, signed on 28th June 1919 between the Allied Powers and Germany6).