25-04-2025
Two young neighbours strike a deal
The signature in Warsaw this week of Treaties of Commerce and Arbitration between Czechoslovakia and Poland marks the beginning of a new period in the relations between the two countries, and may well be the prelude of far-reaching political developments in the situation in Central Europe. Poland has not joined the Little Entente, nor is there any sign of her intending to do so in the near future. But her entente with Czechoslovakia is of first-class political importance.
Attempts to bring the two countries together were first made three years ago, when M Skirmunt, now Polish Minister in London, was Minister for Foreign Affairs in Poland; but at that time there were too many issues in dispute, as for example the question of Teschen, and
