Z działań polskiej dyplomacji we Francji w 1918 r. – memoriał Stanisława Gutowskiego do władz francuskich
On the Activities of Polish Diplomacy in France in 1918 – Stanisław Gutowski’s Memorial to the French Authorities

Summary/Abstract: Stanisław Gutowski was a counsellor and diplomat, initially in the service of Russia, then Poland. Before the First World War he was associated with various political communities, but most often he was a delegate of the Poles from “Lithuania and Ruthenia”. During the war, Gutowski went to the United States and France where he actively supported the case of Polish independence. The article presents his unknown memorial written to the political director at the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre de Margerie of 28 May 1918. The document, entitled L’équilibre européen et la Pologne (European balance and Poland) is kept in the Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères Français in Paris. There is no doubt that it is very important from the perspective of the Polish political thought and makes a significant contribution to the knowledge about efforts of the Polish diplomacy to gain the French support. In his document, Gutowski presented both an analysis of the international situation at the end of the war, with special emphasis on the policy of superpowers, and his own suggestions on the place of Poland in the international arena, situation in Russia and predictable future of this state as well as the future of Ukraine and Austro-Hungary. The memorial was analysed in the context of the internal situation of those times and activities of Roman Dmowski and Erazm Piltz in France.

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