* * * The Warsaw Talks Recent events have thrown
Poland into a position of rather unexpected prominence in Europe, and in the last twelve months Marshal Pilsudski has found himself wooed successively by Russia, Germany and France. The last is, of course, the oldest suitor. The existing Franco-Polish treaty dates from 1921, and it was signed, as it happens, on behalf of France by M. Barthou, who as Foreign Minister again in 1934, has been visiting Warsaw to try and infuse some cordiality into a relationship that had grown a little frigid. His success would seem to have been incomplete. It suits Poland very well to find herself on better terms than she has been with Germany and Russia, and there has been considerable friction between her and France's chief European friend, Czecho- slovakia. Marshal Pilsudski himself, moreover, is far from sharing France's enthusiasm for the League of Nations, though there are rumours, which it may be hoped are not well-founded, that Poland is raising again the question of a permanent seat for herself on the League of Nations Council. What has pretty certainly been promised in Warsaw is that France will lend no further countenance to any formal discussions which leave such countries as Poland and the Little Entente States outside.
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