NOT OF POLAND'S MAKING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1939, Page 9

NOT OF POLAND'S MAKING

DANZIG AFFAIR

WILL RESIST ATTACK

SPEECH BY MARSHAL SMIGLY-RYDZ

(Received August 7, 9.50 a.m.)

WARSAW, August 8. "We did not begin the Danzig affair, and we won't avoid our obligations, but will adjust our actions lit Danzig to those of the opposing side," declared Marshal Smigly-Kydz, In-spector-General of the Polish Army, addressing 100,000 people at Cracow on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the march to the front by the First Polish Legion. ; : "We have no aggressive intentions,* he added, "but we shall resist all, with-' out exception; who attempt directly or indirectly to infringe the rights or dignity of out State. Poland intends to reply to violence with all her forces. Today, when words of war and peace are on everyone's lips, we declare that we love peace as much as anyone, but that- we cannot have peace which means take for one people and. give for another. Danzig; the lung of our economic organisation, has been united with Poland for centuries. We have made our viewpoint very clear.:

"It is my duty to say with deep emotion," he said in conclusion, "that * we have friends among the. nations who understand the essential meanings ■ of things and have formulated their uttitude to us."

Cheers and criesi of "We will never yield Danzig" punctuated the speech.

General Sosnawski. second-in-com-mand of the Polish Army, declared: v "Marshal Pilsudski's legionnaires are "j particularly favoured by history, because if-seems'.that they will participate in a second international war in which Poland will be one of the most -'■ important and most exposed actors in the drama. It seems that after twenty ; years the main act of stabilisation o. 1 ' - Polish independence is beginning."