Talk:Anglo-Polish military alliance

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Good article - answered several of my questions on the German, England, Russian, Poland goings on. Doublecrossers, one and all. No wonder they don't teach this in school - the masses wouldn't support any war, or they would want to kill everyone ( it might drive them mad).

The article needs to be revised. i.e. "What are the special priviledges of the German minority"?! Is not being depossessed, murdered and aggressed against a "special priviledge"?! The motive of Britain should also be investigated. Why did they offer support to Poland in the first place?!

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The article does say what the key British motive was. In the third sentence.

This bilateral agreement between Great Britain and Poland agreement was no "annex" to a bilateral French-Polish treaty.

It is true that the British-Polish Agreement dated 25 August 1939 did not provide clauses concerning the Polish territorial integrity. Nor did it provide any clause concerning the British territorial integrity. Therefore, pointing out that one of the parties was free to cede its own territories of its own free will if that party so wished is pointless, or, if this point needs to be done for one party, it should be done for the other party, too. If the Agreement did contain a committment by both parties to go to war over the territorial integrity of the other no matter what, this would lead to the ridiculous situation in which, if Great Britain decided to do nothing about a Japanese annexation of Hong Kong, Poland would be expected to declare war on Japan nonetheless.

The statement that the British would support the Poles by bombing the German industries very much needs a citation. Considered that Article 4 of the Agreement specifically required plans to be worked out between the competent military staffs, it's difficult to imagine that these took place between August 25 and September 3.

I will soon proceed to edit the article to reflect the points above, though I'm not doing it straightaway in order to leave space for a fruitful discussion of these issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.216.210.57 (talk) 16:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll add that I would like to see proof that the Polish government ordered its own troops to fight against the Soviets when they came. If the Polish government did not order that, or worse, it ordered its troops not to resist the Soviets, then the statement about the British obligation to declare war on the Soviet Union will need to be removed.

212.216.210.57 16:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)