Re: Start of war

Georg Schwarz wrote:
Andrew Clark <aclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They were under no treaty obligation to do so. Britain and France guaranteed
the territorial integrity of Poland. By the time the USSR invaded Poland,
the territorial integrity of Poland was already gone.

this sounds like a rather lame excuse to me.
the Polish army had not capitulated yet by that time, had it?

But it never really started to oppose the entering Red Army. In fact,
it was ordered not to do so. Now look at what the treaty says:

"Should one of the Contracting Parties become *engaged in hostilities*
with
a European Power [...]"

"(1) The provisions of Article I will also apply in the event of any
action by a European Power which clearly threatened, directly or
indirectly, the independence of one of the Contracting Parties, and was
of such a nature that the Party in question *considered it vital to
resist it with its armed forces*. "

(emphasis added).

Roman

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  • Re: Poland - WSC
    ... The prime minister was a man named Felicjan Slawoj Skladkowski ... The head of the Polish armed forces - Marshal Eduard Smigly-Ridz. ... to guarantee the integrity of Poland - of that very Poland ... territorial integrity of Poland." ...
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  • Re: Start of war
    ... They were under no treaty obligation to do so. ... Britain and France guaranteed ... By the time the USSR invaded Poland, ... the territorial integrity of Poland was already gone. ...
    (soc.history.war.world-war-ii)
  • Re: Start of war
    ... Andrew Clark wrote: ... By the time the USSR invaded Poland, ... the territorial integrity of Poland was already gone. ...
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