ABSTRACT
The decision handed down to the Polish people from the Crimea conference is ominous for Poland's fate and for the peace. Poland lies in an open plain between Germany and Russia. Russia-Poland-Germany: that triangle of relationships is the heart of Europe. Adolf Hitler's bethought himself of the possibility "of restoring the classic relationship between Germany and Russia" by a new partition of Poland. Two days after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was made public, Great Britain renewed her guarantee to Poland, in more sweeping terms. The Russians, who had determined to Russianize the half of Poland which they had gotten from the pact with Hitler, had been engaged in wholesale arrests, deportations and even executions. The Molotov-Ribbentrop line for the partition of Poland has been tactfully rebaptized the "Curzon line." The Ukrainians of eastern Poland, for example, are largely Catholic Uniates and not Russian Orthodox, while the Poles are Roman Catholics.
