Those institutions will be animated by the spirit of Polonism, which,
having been a factor in the history of Europe and having proved its
vitality under oppression, has established its right to live. That
spirit, despised and hated by Germany and incompatible with Slavonism
because of moral differences, cannot avoid being (in its renewed
assertion) an object of dislike and mistrust.
As an unavoidable consequence of the past Poland will have to begin its
existence in an atmosphere of enmities and suspicions. That advanced
outpost of Western civilisation will have to hold its ground in the midst
of hostile camps: always its historical fate.
Against the menace of such a specially dangerous situation the paper and
ink of public Treaties cannot be an effective defence. Nothing but the
actual, living, active participation of the two Western Powers in the
establishment of the new Polish commonwealth, and in the first twenty
years of its existence, will give the Poles a sufficient guarantee of
security in the work of restoring their national life.
An Anglo-French protectorate would be the ideal form of moral and
material support.
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