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[ Italy was the first to recognize the restoration of Poland as a war aim, by a resolution in the Chamber of Deputies on 7 December 1915. ]
From Den', No. 12, March 18, 1917, p. 3.
The Proclamation on the freedom of Poland promulgated by the Provisional Government is one of the most important of a number of very important documents of the revolutionary period ; . . .
. . . Germany and Austria . . . on [November 5, 1916] . . . promulgated a manifesto regarding the creation of an independent state out of Russian Poland . . . ruled by a constitutional hereditary monarchy, but compelled to a close alliance with . . . Germany and Austria.
. . . This should have been answered by a frank and honest declaration of the Russian Government's desire to re-create after the end of the war a united Poland, completely free and democratic.
. . . we can welcome with complete enthusiasm the new step by the Government, which brings us closer to a peace concluded on the basis of a genuine acknowledgment of the rights and wishes of nationalities, and which corrects the secular crime of old Russia toward Poland.
B / K, (vol. i) pp 324 - 326
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