[168] Paris journals ascribed it to Mr. Balfour, although it does not bear the hall-mark of a diplomatist. [169] _Le Journal des Débats_, August 13, 1919. [170] Pertinax in _L'Echo de Paris_, August 10, 1919. [171] _The New York Herald_ (Paris edition), August 10, 1919. [172] _Le Journal des Débats_, August 13, 1919. Article by Auguste Gauvain. [173] General Gorton is the one who is said to have despatched the telegram. [174] In the beginning of September, 1919. [175] The French government having prudently refused to furnish an envoy, the British chose Sir George Clark. [176] On June 10, 1919. [177] The actors in this episode were not all officers and civil servants. They included some men in responsible positions. [178] In Teschen. [179] On Friday, April 18, 1919. [180] The Rumanians, on the contrary, had been ordered to keep to the old conditions, although they, too, had lost their force. [181] That is exactly what happened in the end. But the delegates would not believe it until it became an accomplished fact. [182] About twenty-five thousand had already left France. [183] The Ruthenians, Ukrainians, and Little Russians are racially the same people, just as those who speak German in northwestern Germany, Dutch in Holland, and Flemish in Belgium are racially close kindred. The main distinctions between the members of each branch are political. [184] The Messrs. Wilson, George, Clemenceau, Barons Makino and Sonnino. M. Clemenceau was the nominal chairman, but in reality it was President Wilson who conducted the proceedings. [185] Bomst is a canton in the former Province (Regierungs-besirk) of Posen, with about sixty thousand inhabitants. [186] Minutes of this conversation exist. [187] An interesting Russian tribe, dwelling chiefly in the provinces of Minsk and Grodno (excepting the extreme south), a small part of Suvalki, Vilna (excepting the northwest corner), the entire provinces of Vitebsk and Moghileff, the west part of Smolensk, and a few districts of Tshernigoff. [188] La Société des Études Politiques. The discourse in question was printed and published. [189] In Germany and Russia the same view was generally taken of the motives that actuated the policy of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. The most elaborate attempt to demonstrate its correctness was made by Cr. Bunke, in _The Dantziger Neueste Nachrichten_, already mentioned in this book. VII POLAND'S OUTLOOK IN THE FUTURE