782     THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE, 1919, VOLUME V
Appendix I to CF-22
Telegram From the President of the Peace Conference to General
Pilsudski, Head of the Polish State
The Council of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers feel
that it is their duty to call the attention of the Government of Poland
to facts which are giving them the greatest concern and which may
lead to consequences for Poland which the Council would deeply
deplore. The boundary between Poland and the Ukraine is under
consideration and it is as yet undetermined, and the Council has more
than once informed the Polish Government that they would regard
any attempt either by Poland or by the Ukrainian authorities to
determine it. or to prejudice its determination. by the use of force,
as a violation of the whole spirit and an arbitrary interference with
the whole purpose of the present Conference of Peace, to which
Poland, at least has consented to leave the decision of questions of
this very sort. The Council has, therefore. more than once insisted
that there should be an armistice on the Ukrainian front, arranged
in Paris and under the advice of the Council itself. The Polish
military authorities, while acquiescing in principle, have in effect
insisted upon such conditions as would amount to a settlement of the
very questions in controversy, and have continued to use forces in
maintenance of their claims. This has inevitably made the impression
on the minds of the members of the Council that the Polish authori-
ties were in effect, if not in purpose, denying and rejecting the author-
ity of the Conference of Peace. The Council feel it their duty,
therefore, in the most friendly spirit but with the most solemn ear-
nestness, to say to the Polish authorities that, if they are not willing
to accept the guidance and decisions of the Conference of Peace in
such matters, the Governments represented in the Council of the
Principal Allied and Associated Powers will not be justified in sup-
~plying Poland any longer with supplies or assistance of any kind.
If it is her deliberate purpose to set at nought the counsel proffered
by the Conference, its authority can no longer it is feared be made
serviceable to her.
PAWIS, May 19, 1919.
Appendix II to CF-22
[Paraphrase of telegram from Mr. Gibson, American Minister at
Warsaw, to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, May 14,
1919, same as first telegram in appendix I to CF-18B, printed on
page 711.]