THE VIEW FROM GERMANY

Twenty-four hours before the deadline of May 31st 100 Gold marks were duly paid to the inter-allied reparations commission. But not under the chancellorship of Constantine Fehrenbach. Yet, his party, Zentrum, the Catholic Centre Party retained its in influence in all the main offices of State, after Fehrenbach and the independent diplomat, Walter Simons, the Foreign Minister, both resigned.

Harrington, Joseph F. 

The League of Nations and the Upper Silesian Boundary Dispute, 1921-1922. 

The Polish Review, vol. 23, no. 3, 1978, pp. 86–101

www.jstor.org/stable/25777590


THE VIEW FROM RUSSIA

New Politics and the Education of the Peasant.

The Communists had all by sealed victory in the Russian civil war in the country but had practically lost the countryside by April 1921. The famine discussed in the podcasts of October and November in season 1, focused economic on implications of this new politics, I was talking about then and will be talking about now in relation to Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) in particular. In Russian transliteration:  New Economic Politics. I want to focus more on the politics than the economics.

http://chkprf.narod.ru/Texts/VIL44-155.htm#ch5  NEP in Russian

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/17.htm in English

THE VIEW FROM AMERICA

America Declares That She Fought for Herself Alone in WW1

At a dinner at the American Embassy in London on May the 19th to welcome the latest Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the new incumbent, George Harvey stated his country’s interest in the outcome of the conflict in Upper Silesia and wanted it to play a part in order to safeguard its own commercial interests. But on its own terms, not through the courtly procedures of European diplomacy but as the new President personified in the American approach to diplomacy: humble but unafraid. 

Published: May 20, 1921. Copyright © The New York Times