August Zaleski
Published: 2015-06-25
Total Pages: 54
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Excerpt from Landmarks of Polish History The Great War has produced a welcome reaction against that indifference towards problems of foreign affairs which was so marked and so regrettable a feature of the past fifteen years. British public opinion was absorbed in the internal affairs of these islands, and often tended to neglect even the greatest of our Imperial problems. European politics were allowed to remain a sealed book; and if this was true even of such near neighbours as France and Germany, it applies with tenfold force to the vast and complicated chain of problems which link up Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Balkans. The policy of splendid isolation had been abandoned, but despite the growth of a system of ententes, little or no effort was made to break down the attitude of intellectual isolation which bad gradually replaced the old traditions of active interest in continental affairs. Our outlook upon the Polish Question may be regarded as a classical instance of this psychological change. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
