A campaign pressing Polish colonial claims was in full swing here today with government leaders and press vigorously participating.- keynote of the campaign was sounded in an electoral address last night by Eugene Kwiatkowski, vice-premier and Finance Minister, who declared the world’s wealth must be re-distributed instead of being kept among a few nations.
m. Kwiatdowski stated that 88 per cent of the world gold supply was in the hands of three States which had closed off immigration both at home and in their colonies. He asserted that world economic equilibrium was impossible under these conditions.
Totalitarianism and the one-party system also came in for attack by M. Kwiatkowski as ” the enemies of national consolidation,”
The Illustrowany Kurjer Codzienny, Cracow liberal daily, in an editorial asserted Poland must have colonies in conformity with its position as an industrialized European power requiring raw materials.
Pointing out that Warsaw had made known its wants clearly before the League of Nations on a number of occasions, the newspaper said: “Poland is a state of 35 million inhabitants whose industry lacks raw materials and whose constantly increasing population has no outlets for emigration. Italo-polish conversations on this subject are understood to have been held at Rome and the support of the Italian Government for the Polish colonial demands has reportedly been assured. Poland cannot ignore any ‘ opportunity that presents itself to this end.”
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