CHAPTER XVI

THE PARTIES OF POLAND

Polish tendency to division--The reactionary position stated--Supposed beneficence of martial law--Suppression good for Poles--Absurdities of Socialists and Nationalists--Reconquest of Finland necessary--Poland essential as barrier against Germany--The Polish workman--Disasters in Polish trade--Loss of credit--The landless labourers--Education--Wages--Rent--Polish brides and demand for ancestral relics--The Realist party--The National Democrats--A meeting to practice for elections--A Nationalist programme--The Progressive Democrats--The National Socialists--The Social Democrats--The Proletariat Socialists--The Jewish Bund--Attempts to influence the Army--Executions of so-called Anarchists and Jews--The Warsaw citadel--Two brave Jewesses 282