THE

RECONSTRUCTION

OF POLAND AND

THE NEAR EAST

THE RECONSTRUCTION
OF POLAND

AND THE NEAR EAST

THE FUTURE OF POLAND

The Poles no longer have a common country, but they have a common language. They will remain, then, united by the strongest and most durable of all bonds. They will arrive, under foreign domination, to the age of manhood, and the moment they reach that age will not be far from that in which, emancipated, they will all be attached once more to one center.-Talleyrand, after his return from the Congress of Vienna, 1815.

REAT BRITAIN and France, as

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well as Russia, Austria, and Prussia, were signatories of the Treaty of Vienna, and were bound by their signature to enforce its provisions. The first article of the final act of the Congress of Vienna declared solemnly: "The Poles,