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Excerpt from Stead's Review, Vol. 50: July 13, 1918
There must be some very good reason for this, and we will find it unless I am much mistaken in the acquiescence of Austria in German schemes for the settlement of the Polish and other questions. There have been several attempts made by the Central Powers to solve the Polish difficulty, but thus far all have failed. According to the German newspaper these failures are due to the Austrian insistence that Poland shall become part of the Austrian Empire, form ing a third kingdom therein. This the Ger mans refuse to allow, whether because this would make Austria too strong, or whether because it would allow the Poles to become too powerful, is not disclosed. Many of the papers indeed take the line that the ad dition of Poland to the Austrian Empire would quickly lead to the ruin of the latter owing to Hungarian discontent. Be that as it may, it is not difficult to see in the send ing of German troops to Italy, the conclusion of a bargain between the two Empires about something, and the most likely some thing is Poland. If the solution is to be a German one, the kingdom to be set up will probably be territorially somewhat like the Duchy of Warsaw established by Napoleon. This had no outlet to the sea, but included parts of Galicia, and of Posen, now under Austrian and German rule respectively. These territories will be retained by the Central Powers, and only what is known as Russian Poland, less the Cholm district will form the new kingdom. Presumably it will be under general German control. The Germans have also Sent supplies of grain to Vienna, which points to a further bargain, possibly is the price paid for Aus trian agreement to closer commercial rela tions. Whatever the bargain struck, the despatch of German soldiers to Italy and German grain to Vienna is admitted, and that being so we cannot yet regard the danger in Italy as being over.
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