The general attitude of the British Government is briefly defined as follows:—It the German Government had seriously desired to settle the present dispute by negotiation, they would not have adopted a procedure with the character of an ultimatum, ut would have opened negotiations with the normal procedure of eivillz-Governments.
The Polish Government is fully justified in declining to submit to {he treatment which the German Government has endeavoured to impose upon them.
The terms published were never communicated to the Polish Government, and should have been s0 submitted, and time given for the Polish Government to consider whether they infringed upon Poland's vital interests, which Germany, in a written communication to the British Government, declared her intention to respect.
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