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devoted January 20, 1921, to the discussion andpatriotic analysis of this footnote, and concludedwith a Kesolution ordering the chief speech of theoccasion (that of Deputy A. Wierzlicki) to be publishedthroughout the world in several languages at theexpense of the State. I apologise for any depreciationin the Polish mark for which I may have been so in-advertently responsible. Mr. Wierzlicki begins : " Abook appeared by Keynes . . . the author of a well-known work on India, that pearl of the English crown,that land which is a beloved subject of study to theEnglish . Through such studies a man may winhimself name and fame,"—which was certainly alittle unscrupulous of me. And he concludes : " ButEngland too must believe in facts ! And if Keynes ,whose book is impregnated with a humanitarian spiritand with understanding of the necessity to get upbeyond selfish interests, if Keynes is convinced byactual data that he has done a wrong, that he haswrought confusion in the ideas of statesmen andpoliticians as regards Upper Silesia , then he too willsee with his eyes and must become the friend ofPoland, of Poland as an active factor in the develop-ment of the natural wealth of Silesia ." I owe it toso generous and eloquent a critic to quote the correctedfigures, which are as follows : the Polish lands, unitedby the Peace Treaty into the new Polish State, con-sumed in 1913 19,445,000 tons of coal, of which8,989,000 tons were produced within that area and