Un Problème Européen : le Couloir Polonais
A European Problem: The Polish Corridor

Author(s): Carl Budding
Subject(s): Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Polish corridor; Upper Silesia;
Summary/Abstract: We shall refrain from discussing here the difficult and complex chapter of Upper Silesia. It will suffice to point out the close links which unite the problem of Upper Silesia with that of the corridor. It suffices to think of the names of Gdingen and Kattowitz and of the "coal line" intended to unite these two economic regions, to show that, not only from the economic point of view, but even if the question is considered from a purely political point of view, the attribution to Poland of the greater part of the industrial region of Upper Silesia, made Upper Silesia part of the problem of the corridor. The Corridor and Upper Silesia depend on each other, but it is the Corridor that has the right of priority. This is the heart of the whole problem of Eastern Europe.

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