New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1917, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, SEPIEMBER 10, 1017. 4 ! ] emphatically recognized by the Holy In the opinion of the Holy See the{ Clear and peremptory was the |for these leaders, and for those whe m See. Poles are not even entitled to decide |tenor of the demand made by the |represented Poland as-a beggar de- The attitude of the Holy See with | about their own fate. The apostolic | Holy. See upon the King of Poland, {serving pity from the mighty of this regard {0 the provinces of Alsace and | letter expressly defines the composi- | Jobn III. Sobieski, to save Austria,|world. ] | Lorraine, which were wrested from | tion of the body, which is to examine | contrary to the interest of Poland, We can, however, assure His Hol- Franee in 1871, is, however, not as | the territorial questions. In the para- |from the danger threatening at that ! definité as the apostolic letter of His | Braph relating to this subject we |that the Hapsbourg empire at the situation requires other principles and other expedients than those in use in former days. Those who stick to forms that outlived themsejves are necessarily bound to lose and to for- feit their former importance. The leadership of the world is pass- I ing to that nation whose Chief Execu- gratitude, the Polish nation addresses itself to that people the represgnta- iness that with great confidence and Holiness in discreet silence passes | read as follows: hands of the Moslems. over the imperative necessity of re- “The pgrties in conflict would wish On the other hand the connivance | tive of which assumed an entirely | tive first proclaimed the right to lib- o Ffle F l P storing these provinces to their | to examine them with a conciliatory ;of the Holy See with Austria's par- | different attitude with regard to the | crty and independence for all peoples. orma, Totest Becaflse other conpirSIianLy. disposition, taking into consideration | ticipation in the partitions of Poland | Polish question. . ! A world-wide peace wi)l come only ! Painful and unexpeceted, however, | s we said formerly, the aspirations of {is a generally known fact. Known The entjre world has listened to| when a guarantee of these principles i Poland Was HM s eclfifld |is the attitude agsumed by the Holy | the peoples.” ‘ lalso is the interdict pronounced by |the words of President Wilson, which | of liberty is entrusted to the Unjted p See with regard to the rights of the ‘Thus the Polish nation is supposed | the Holy See against the Polish rev- |afford no possibility of equivocal in- | States of America. i Polish nation to liberty and independ- | to wailt patiently, without participat- | olutionaries in 1830-1831. terpretation and which gave courage Asking Your Grace to kindly accept | ence. His Holiness speaks of the |ing in the congress of the leaders of Failed to Support Peland. to all oppressed nationalities. the expressions of our profound es- New York, Sept. 10.—The follow- | Polish guestion in the following | the belligerent nations, while these Bat Tov whan M 25, 1917, Prestdent Wilson said among other { teem, we beg to remain, Most respect- ing protest on behalf of the Polish jwords: | leaders decide the fate of buta “part’ | BU SRR e L > | things: fully, for ths Polish National Defensa national defense committee has been Not Specific on Poland. ot Faland. 1 the Polish natien through its repre- | “Every people should be left free | committee. i i If such is to be the “supremacy of | sentatives proclaimed at the City hall sent to Hig Grace, the Rt. Rev. Gio- | “The same spirit of cquity and | ignes referred to by the Holy See we | in cracow a free, united and lm;epen— vanni Bonzgno, apostolic delegate to | justice ought to be followed In the |can give the positive assurance that|qent Poland with aecess to the . ses the United States of America, at j examjpnation of other territorial and there will not be one single citizen In | ho \way of the port of Gdansk, Dant- Washington, D. C.: | potitical questions * * * relative | Poland who will essent to such de- iy the Holy See failed to ' assume To His Grace, the Rt. Rev. Giovannl | * * * to territories making a part of | Clslon made by the partitioning POW- | the same peremptory attitude as 1t Bonzano, apostolic delegate to the |the ancient kingdom of Poland, whose | ers. f,took in the defepse of Belgium and United States of America, Wash- {noble and historical traditions and Different was the tener of addresses | France and failed to demand from ington, D. C. sufferings which it hag endured, es- | directed by the predecessors of His]the Germans and Austriang the im- Your Grace: | pecially during the present war ought | Holiness, Benedict XV, to the Polish | mediate evacuation of the territories The Pollsh national defense com- jto conciliate the eympathies of the | nation at the times of the latter's|of the former Commonwealth of Po- mittee requests that Your Grace ,nations.” d triumphs over the foes of Poland. land, which was for so many years, transmit to the hands of His Emin- | Thus, in the opinion of the Hely At the time when the Polish kings | nay centuries. §o loyal and so subs enge, the cardinal secretary of state See, Poland is not & nation which is |triumphed over the Germen empire |missive . to the = Roman-Catholi¢ of the Holy See its expressions of tully entitle dto independenet pQlitical | and were about to crush the rebel- | church. profound grief because of the wrong life. His Holiness does not demand |lious and treacherous Teutonic Order | The attitude taken by the Holy Ses done to the rights and to the dignity |that the Germans evacuate the terri- | of the Cross, the Holy See defending | with regard to the sovereign rights of the Polish nation by the apostolic | tory of the former commonwealth of | the Germans insisted that they should | of the Polish nation assumes an en- letter of His Holiness, Benedict XV, | Poland, which is eimost in its entirety | be spared by the Polish kings and did | tirely unexpected aspect when we addressed to the leaders of the bellig- | occupied by the armies of Gérmany | pot shrink frem interdicting the re- |lake into consideration the fact that erent peoples. and Austria-Hungary. The Holy See | ealeitrant Polish kings and the en- the Polish nation, suffering under the Every liberty and justice-loving in- | does not recognize the sovereign |tire Polish nation, when the Poles|Gorman occupation from starvatien dividual must greet with full appre- | rights of the Polish nation to its own | were protecting their own interssts, |and deprived of their homesteads be- clation the peremptory demand of Hie | territory, but merely speaks of the Clear and peremptory was also the | cause ‘of the burning down of thou: Holiness that the Germans should | sympathies of natione, which Poland | attitude assured by the Holy Bee =ands of villages and towns by the forthwith evacuate the territories of | ought to coneiliate because of the suf- | when it frustrated, in the interests Russian and the German armies, to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, un- threatened, unafraid, the little along with, the great and powerful. . . No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principal that governments derive all their powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right any- where exsist to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. . . There should be a upited, independent and autono- mous Poland.” ¢ President Wilson explieitly stated who is to determine the future con- figuration: of the world by saying as, follows: “Phrages will not aceomplish the result. Effective readjustments will . . . But they must follow a prin. ciple and this principle is plain. No people must be foreced under the sov. ereignty under which it dees not wish to llve. No territory must chango hapds except for the purpose of se- (Signed) JOSEPH ZALESKI, Pregident. STANISLAW RAYZACHER, Secretary. School Department, City of New Brit VOCATIONAL EVENING SCHOOLY ; NOTICE ! ! Opens Monday, September 17, at 7:30 P. ¥ —at the— 3 Vocational School, 52 Bassett Street LEARN MORE —————sr——e—e——emw——— EARN MOR{ FREE COURSES ARE OIFERED 'x IN z B E Belgium and France, which they oc- | ferings she has endurad. According | of the Romen.Catholic chureh ,and | managed to forward, often depriving | curing those who inhabit It, a falr Machine Work Drafting Shop Mathemat! cupy. By this demand His Holiness |to the terms of the apostolic letter, | to the disadvantage of the Polish and | their half-starving children of the | chance of life and liberty. . . . And Bewt Stenography * expressly rejects the idea of conquest |Poland is but “a territorial and po- | of the Russian nations, the victory |1ast slice of bread, a very consider- | then the free peoples of the world Dressmaking Typewriting s :nd'rgcogn‘l;es the fact that conquest | litical question which should be ex- | of King Stefan Batory, czar tloelted‘;t;le I:n;?unt o{hth; Peter's Pence ta { must dr:w tolet::;u\::::l:: ;::;:‘1‘:3 2 \ Bookkeeping E y forece of arms cannet eonstitute a | amined,” not in its entirety but onl; ing by the Peles through a free elec- s Holiness, e Pope. covenant, some g legal basis for incorporating foreign |in “part.” The fate of t:'xe rest oz rlong. o’\vver Ivan the Teiglma, of ,Mus- It is ‘possible that in accordanca| co-operation that will in effect com- ?'ml’egsil:?fe I;E’(‘;:So’l‘;fil‘ TlU!.‘SDA,"Y'vo gfl’m:” mfi:lh‘:l;h:’ ] territories without the consent of the | the “parts’” of Poland which His Holi- | covy, the greatest tyrant sinee Nero. | with the desire of His Holiness the | bine their force to secure peace and 185 64 5 Ta itie A ircenane. A’T THE~ justice in the dealings ef nations with | another." Qut of' the bloody clouds of this terrible slaughter emerges the new structurs of the world. The present same leaders who started the present war will be hailed by the coming gen. erations as ‘“splendid pacificators. The future generations of Poland, however, will find other appellations people of such territories. Thus the |ness exciudes from the examination | By this action of the Holy Bse, the indisputable right of the Belgian and |remains unknown. Which of the par- | eastward march of civilization was the French nations to the territories | titioning powers is therefore to have | halted and the Russian netion de- inhabited by them immediately prior | pessession of the excluded parts of [livered inte a bondage of en autec- t0 the outbreak of the war has been Poland? 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