The Latest Pair of Notes from the Soviets and Poland

To Minister Zamoyski's categorical refusal to reply on the substance to the facts of violations of minority rights guaranteed by the Treaty of Riga, listed in the note of 10 May, Chicherin responded on 4/VI with a new note, in which he likewise categorically asserts that this refusal by the Polish minister is a new violation of Article 7 of the Treaty, against which he lodged a new protest. "And because the facts of the oppression of minorities in Poland listed in the Soviet protest are already generally known and have found confirmation in a series of international statements," Chicherin writes that "the matter can be considered fully clarified, and therefore the government of the USSR considers further discussion unnecessary"…

On 10 June Minister Zamoyski again declared in a reply note that the Polish government firmly maintains that Article 7 of the Treaty gives the USSR no right to intervene and to act as protector in the matter of national minorities, and likewise considers further discussion superfluous.

One can only wonder what this unlucky Article 7 of the Treaty was really drawn up for, if, as Minister Zamoyski authoritatively interprets it on behalf of the entire Polish government, it gives no one any "uprawnień" (rights)?!