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1Terminology
2.1History of the area
2.1.1Historical population
2.2Allied plans for a corridor after World War I
2.2.1Ethnographic reasons
2.2.2Economic reasons
2.2.3The Inquiry's opinion
3Incorporation into the Second Polish Republic
4Exodus of the German population
5Impact on the East Prussian plebiscite
6Impact on German through-traffic
7Land reform of 1925
8Weimar German interests
9Nazi German and Polish diplomacy
10Ultimatum of 1939
11Nazi German invasion – end of the corridor
12Ethnic composition
13After World War II
14The corridor in literature
15See also
15.1Similar corridors
Polish Corridor
Territory in northern Poland which separated East Prussia from mainland Germany
The Polish Corridor in 1923–1939
Polish Prussia in 1466–1772
Majority Polish (green) and German areas in the Corridor (German 1910 census).
Territorial evolution of Germany
in the 20th century
Act of 5th November proclaiming Kingdom of Poland (1916)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Ukraine (1918)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Soviet Russia (1918)
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
German–Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia (1922)
Return of the Saar Basin (1935)
Remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936)
Anschluss with Austria (1938)
Munich Agreement (1938)
Seizure of Czechoslovakia (1939)
Treaty of the Cession of the
Memel Territory to Germany (1939)
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)
Großdeutschland
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Polish and Danziger areas annexed by Nazi Germany
German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement (1941)
Tehran Conference (1943)
Moscow Conference and Declaration on Austria (1943)
Yalta Conference (1945)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Post-World War II
Berlin Declaration (1945)
Potsdam Agreement (1945)
Paris Protocol (1949)
Dutch annexation of Elten and Selfkant (1949)
Belgian annexations (1949)
Treaty of Zgorzelec (1950)
Bonn–Paris conventions and return of Heligoland (1952)
London and Paris Conferences (1954)
Austrian State Treaty (1955)
Saar Treaty (1956)
"Little Reunification" with Saarland (1957)
Belgium–Germany border treaty and return of the majority of annexations (1958)
Ausgleichsvertrag (1960)
Return of Selfkant (1963)
Polish-East German Baltic Continental Shelf Delimitation Treaty (1968)
Treaty of Moscow (1970)
Treaty of Warsaw (1970)
Four Power Agreement on Berlin (1971)
Basic Treaty (1972)
Treaty of Prague (1973)
Polish-East German Maritime Boundary in Pomeranian Bay Delimitation Treaty (1989)
German-Polish Border Treaty (1990)
Two Plus Four Treaty (1991)
Treaty of Good Neighbourship (1991)
Areas and issues
Alsace-Lorraine
Former eastern territories of Germany
German Question
Hallstein Doctrine
Adjacent countries
Territorial evolution of France
Territorial evolution of Poland
Territorial evolution of Switzerland
Revolution in Congress Poland (1905–1907)
Ostrowiec Republic
Zagłębie Republic
Separation of Kholm Governorate from Congress Poland and annexation into Russian Kiev General Governorate (1913)
Act of 5th November by the Central Powers proclaiming Kingdom of Poland (1916)
Central Powers-Ukrainian People's Republic/Ukrainian State Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
Central Powers-Soviet Russia Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
Short-lived Byelorussian, Ukrainian and Rusyn republics (1917-1920): West Ukrainian People's (later absorbed into Poland-allied Ukrainian People 's), Belarusian Democratic, Lemko, Komancza
Local revolts and transient polities in postwar power vacuum (1918)
Tarnobrzeg Republic
Republic of Zakopane
First Republic of Pińczów
Witkowo Revolt
Republic of Ostrów
Restoration of Polish independence (1918) and ensuing wars to preseve it (1918-1922):
Greater Poland uprising
Silesian Uprisings
Polish–Czechoslovak War
Polish-West Ukrainian War
War of Polish-Ukrainian alliance against Soviet Russia (1920-1921) and its satellites:
Ukrainian SSR
short-lived Galician SSR later merged into the former
short-lived SSR of Lithuania and Belorussia
attempted Polish SSR later dissolved and replaced with token Polish National Districts
Polish-Lithuanian War
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)
Suwałki Agreement (1920)
Treaty of Warsaw (1920) with Ukrainian People's Republic
Plebiscite in Prussia (1920)
Polish satellite states
Republic of Central Lithuania (1920-1922)
Free City of Danzig under League of Nations protection (1921-1939)
Peace of Riga (1921): eastern border of Poland accepted by Russian SFSR and its satellites (Byelorussian SSR which replaced SSR of Lithuania and Belorussia, and Ukrainian SSR which replaced Ukrainian People's Republic)
Incorporation of Central Lithuania (1922)
Polish National Districts of the Soviet Union (1925-1937)
Marchlewszczyzna (1925-1931)
Dzierżyńszczyzna (1932-1937)
Munich Agreement and Polish annexation of Trans-Olza (1938)
First Vienna Award and Polish annexation of parts of Spiš and Orava (1938)
Secret German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty
Wartime administrative division
Territories of Poland and Danzig annexed by Nazi Germany
Polish areas annexed by USSR
Polish government-in-exile and Polish Underground State
Bialystok District
Sikorski–Mayski agreement (1941)
Transient Polish-controlled areas (1944)
Turgiele Republic
Iwonicz Republic
Second Pińczów Republic
Warsaw Uprising
Allied conferences
Moscow Conference (1943)
Polish–Soviet border agreement (1945)
Polish-Soviet Border Adjustment Treaty (1951)
Polish-Czechoslovak Border Treaty (1958)
Polish-Czechoslovak Border Adjustment (1976)
Poland–Slovakia Border Adjustment (2005)
Polish-Danish Maritime Boundary Delimitation Agreement (2018)
Remnants of Polish statehood during partitions:
Congress Poland/Vistula Land
Galician autonomy
Kresy Wschodnie ("Eastern Borderlands")
Taken Lands (remainder of Russian partition of Poland)
Wileńszczyzna
Grodzieńszczyzna
Lwów Land
Areas of Galicia and Lodomeria east of river San
Kresy Zachodnie ("Western Borderlands")
1815-1918 used as synonymous with entire Prussian partition of Poland
1918-1945 used in altered meaning
regions unsuccessfully claimed from Germany by interwar Poland, in particular Upper Silesia, Warmia, Masuria, Powiśle, Posen-West Prussia, sometimes also Starostwo of Draheim, Lauenburg and Bütow Land and easternmost Hither Pomerania (Lands of Schlawe and Stolp)
Zaolzie
After 1945, the former eastern territories of Germany were called Recovered Territories, while the term Kresy Zachodnie fell into disuse, though it was sometimes invoked to denote Polish claims to some East German territories such as Wolgast Pomerania, Milsko, Miśnia or Lausitz, raised typically only until early 1970s as counterclaims to retaliate for West German calls for revision of Oder–Neisse line.
Demarcation lines
Greater Poland military demarcation line (1919-1920)
Cieszyn Silesia demarcation line (1918-1920)
Polish–Lithuanian demarcation line (1919-1920)
Curzon Line (1920)
Upper Silesia demarcation line (1921-1922)
Oder–Neisse line (1945–1951)
Territorial changes of the Baltic states
Percentage of Poles living on the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth territories, ca. 1900
The Polish Corridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: Pomorze, Polski Korytarz), also known as the Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship, eastern Pomerania, formerly part of West Prussia), which provided the Second Republic of Poland (1920–1939) with access to the Baltic Sea, thus dividing the bulk of Germany (Weimar Republic) from the province of East Prussia. At its narrowest point, the Polish territory was just 30 km wide.[1] The Free City of Danzig (now the Polish cities of Gdańsk, Sopot and the surrounding areas), situated to the east of the corridor, was a semi-independent German speaking city-state forming part of neither Germany nor Poland, though united with the latter through an imposed union covering customs, mail, foreign policy, railways as well as defence.
A similar territory, also occasionally referred to as a corridor, was originally connected to the Polish Crown until 1308, and was later reclaimed as part of Royal Prussia during the period 1466–1772.[2][3]
Terminology[edit]
According to German historian Hartmut Boockmann the term "Corridor" was first used by Polish politicians,[4] while Polish historian Grzegorz Lukomski writes that the word was coined by German nationalist propaganda of the 1920s.[5] Internationally the term was used in the English language already as early as March 1919[6] and whatever its origins, it became a widespread term in English language usage.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
The equivalent German term is Polnischer Korridor. Polish names include korytarz polski ("Polish corridor") and korytarz gdański ("Gdańsk corridor"); however, reference to the region as a corridor came to be regarded as offensive by interwar Polish diplomats. Among the harshest critics of the term corridor was Polish Foreign Minister Józef Beck, who in his May 5, 1939 speech in Sejm (Polish parliament) said: "I am insisting that the term Pomeranian Voivodeship should be used. The word corridor is an artificial idea, as this land has been Polish for centuries, with a small percentage of German settlers".[14] Poles would commonly refer to the region as Pomorze Gdańskie ("Gdańsk Pomerania, Pomerelia") or simply Pomorze ("Pomerania"), or as województwo pomorskie ("Pomeranian Voivodeship"), which was the administrative name for the region.
History of the area[edit]
Main article: Pomerelia
In the 10th century, Pomerelia was settled by Slavic Pomeranians, ancestors of the Kashubians, who were subdued by Bolesław I of Poland. In the 11th century, they created an independent duchy.[15] In 1116/1121, Pomerania was again conquered by Poland. In 1138, following the death of Duke Bolesław III, Poland was fragmented into several semi-independent principalities. The Samborides, principes in Pomerelia, gradually evolved into independent dukes, who ruled the duchy until 1294. Before Pomerelia regained independence in 1227,[15][16] their dukes were vassals of Poland and Denmark. Since 1308-1309, following succession wars between Poland and Brandenburg, Pomerelia was subjugated by the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia. In 1466, with the second Peace of Thorn, Pomerelia became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of autonomous Royal Prussia. After the First Partition of Poland in 1772 it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and named West Prussia, and became a constituent part of the new German Empire in 1871. Thus the Polish Corridor was not an entirely new creation: the territory assigned to Poland had been an integral part of Poland prior to 1772, but with a large degree of autonomy.[17][18][19][20]
Historical population[edit]
Perhaps the earliest census data on ethnic or national structure of West Prussia (including areas which later became the Polish Corridor) is from 1819.[21]
Ethnic/national data (Nationalverschiedenheit) for West Prussia in 1819[21]
Ethnic or national group
Population (number)
Population (percentage)
Poles (Polen) 327,300 52%
Germans (Deutsche) 290,000 46%
Jews (Juden) 12,700 2%
Total 630,077 100%
Karl Andree, "Polen: in geographischer, geschichtlicher und culturhistorischer Hinsicht" (Leipzig 1831), gives the total population of West Prussia as 700,000 inhabitants - including 50% Poles (350,000), 47% Germans (330,000) and 3% Jews (20,000).[22]
Data from the 19th century and early 20th century show the following ethnic changes in four "core" counties of the Corridor (Puck, Wejherowo - directly at the Baltic Sea coast - and Kartuzy, Kościerzyna - between Provinz Pommern and Free City Danzig):
The Polish Corridor:
Map of Puck (77.4%), Wejherowo (54.9%), Kartuzy (77.3%) and Kościerzyna (64.5%) counties, showing percentages of ethnic Poles (including Kashubians) by the end of World War I, according to the Map of Polish population published in 1919 in Warsaw.[23]
Percent of Poles/Kashubians (including Polish-German bilinguals) in four main counties of the Corridor in 1831-1931:
Puck (Putzig)
Wejherowo (Neustadt)
Kartuzy (Karthaus)
Kościerzyna (Berent)
J. Mordawski's estimate[24]
Leszek Belzyt's estimate[25]
Volkszählung pop. census[26]
Volkszählung[26]
Schulzählung school census[26]
Schulzählung[26]
Stefan Ramułt's estimate[27][28]
Map of Polish population[23][29]
Polish General Census[30][31]
Polish General Census
Allied plans for a corridor after World War I[edit]
During the First World War, both sides made bids for Polish support, and in turn Polish leaders were active in soliciting support from both sides. Roman Dmowski, a former deputy in the Russian State Duma and the leader of the Endecja movement was especially active in seeking support from the Allies. Dmowski argued that an independent Poland needed access to the sea on demographic, historical and economic grounds as he maintained that a Poland without access to the sea could never be truly independent. After the war Poland was to be re-established as an independent state. Since a Polish state had not existed since the Congress of Vienna, the future republic's territory had to be defined.
Giving Poland access to the sea was one of the guarantees proposed by United States President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points of January 1918. The thirteenth of Wilson's points was:
"An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant."[32]
The following arguments were behind the creation of the corridor:
Ethnographic reasons[edit]
The ethnic situation was one of the reasons for returning the area to the restored Poland.[33] The majority of the population in the area was Polish.[34] As the Polish commission report to the Allied Supreme Council noted on 12 March 1919: "Finally the fact must be recognised that 600,000 Poles in West Prussia would under any alternative plan remain under German rule".[35] Also, as David Hunter Miller from president Woodrow Wilson's group of experts and academics (known as The Inquiry) noted in his diary from the Paris Peace Conference: "If Poland does not thus secure access to the sea, 600,000 Poles in West Prussia will remain under German rule and 20,000,000 Poles in Poland proper will probably have but a hampered and precarious commercial outlet".[36] The Prussian census of 1910 showed that there were 528,000 Poles (including West Slavic Kashubians, who had supported the Polish national lists in German elections[37][38][39][40]) in the region, compared with 385,000 Germans (including troops and officials stationed in the area).[41][42] The province of West Prussia as a whole had between 36% and 43% ethnic Poles in 1910, depending on the source (the lower number is based directly on German 1910 census figures, while the higher number is based on calculations according to which a large part of those people counted as Catholic Germans in the official census in fact identified as Poles).[43] The Poles did not want the Polish population to remain under the control of the German state,[44] which had in the past treated the Polish population and other minorities as second-class citizens[45] and had pursued Germanization. As Professor Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960) -- born to Jewish parents in Lublin Governorate (Russian Empire, former Congress Poland) and later a British citizen,[46] a former member of the British Intelligence Bureau throughout World War I[47] and the British delegation at the Versailles conference,[48] known for his anti-Polish[49] and anti-German[50][51] attitude -- wrote in the Manchester Guardian on November 7, 1933: "The Poles are the Nation of the Vistula, and their settlements extend from the sources of the river to its estuary. … It is only fair that the claim of the river-basin should prevail against that of the seaboard."[52]
Economic reasons[edit]
The Poles held the view that without direct access to the Baltic Sea, Poland's economic independence would be illusory.[53] Around 60.5% of Polish import trade and 55.1% of exports went through the area.[54] The report of the Polish Commission presented to the Allied Supreme Council said:
"1,600,000 Germans in East Prussia can be adequately protected by securing for them freedom of trade across the corridor, whereas it would be impossible to give an adequate outlet to the inhabitants of the new Polish state (numbering 25,000,000) if this outlet had to be guaranteed across the territory of an alien and probably hostile Power."[55]
The United Kingdom eventually accepted this argument.[53] The suppression of the Polish Corridor would have abolished the economic ability of Poland to resist dependence on Germany.[56] As Lewis Bernstein Namier, Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester and known for both his "legendary hatred of Germany"[50] and Germanophobia[51] as well as his anti-Polish attitude[49] directed against what he defined as the "aggressive, antisemitic and warmongerily imperialist" part of Poland,[57] wrote in a newspaper article in 1933:
"The whole of Poland's transport system ran towards the mouth of the Vistula....
"90% of Polish exports came from her western provinces.[58]
"Cutting through of the Corridor has meant a minor amputation for Germany; its closing up would mean strangulation for Poland.".[59]
By 1938, 77.7% of Polish exports left either through Gdańsk (31.6%) or the newly built port of Gdynia (46.1%)[60]
The Inquiry's opinion[edit]
David Hunter Miller in his diary from the Paris Peace Conference noted, that the problem of Polish access to the sea was very difficult because leaving entire Pomerelia under German control meant cutting off millions of Poles from their commercial outlet and leaving several hundred thousand Poles under German rule, while granting such access meant cutting off East Prussia from the rest of Germany. The Inquiry recommended, that both the Corridor and Danzig should have been ceded directly to Poland.
Quote: "It is believed that the lesser of these evils is preferable, and that the Corridor and Danzig should [both] be ceded to Poland, as shown on map 6. East Prussia, though territorially cut off from the rest of Germany, could easily be assured railroad transit across the Polish corridor (a simple matter as compared with assuring port facilities to Poland), and has, in addition, excellent communication via Königsberg and the Baltic Sea. In either case a people is asked to entrust large interests to the League of Nations. In the case of Poland they are vital interests; in the case of Germany, aside from Prussian sentiment, they are quite secondary".[36]
In the end, The Inquiry's recommendations were implemented only partially: most of West Prussia was given to Poland, but Danzig became a Free City.
Incorporation into the Second Polish Republic[edit]
During World War I, the Central Powers had forced the Imperial Russian troops out of Congress Poland and Galicia, as manifested in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918. Following the military defeat of Austria-Hungary, an independent Polish republic was declared in Western Galicia on 3 November 1918, the same day Austria signed the armistice. The collapse of Imperial Germany's Western Front, and the subsequent withdrawal of her remaining occupation forces after the Armistice of Compiègne on 11 November allowed the republic led by Roman Dmowski and Józef Piłsudski to seize control over the former Congress Polish areas. Also in November, the revolution in Germany forced the Kaiser's abdication and gave way to the establishment of the Weimar Republic. Starting in December, the Polish-Ukrainian War expanded the Polish republic's territory to include Volhynia and parts of Eastern Galicia, while at the same time the German Province of Posen (where even according to the German made 1910 census 61,5% of the population was Polish) was severed by the Greater Poland uprising, which succeeded in attaching most of the province's territory to Poland by January 1919. This led Weimar's Otto Landsberg and Rudolf Breitscheid to call for an armed force to secure Germany's remaining eastern territories (some of which contained significant Polish minorities, primarily on the former Prussian partition territories). The call was answered by the minister of defense Gustav Noske, who decreed support for raising and deploying volunteer "Grenzschutz" forces to secure East Prussia, Silesia and the Netze District.[61]
On 18 January, the Paris peace conference opened,[62] resulting in the draft of the Treaty of Versailles 28 June 1919. Articles 27 and 28 of the treaty[63] ruled on the territorial shape of the corridor, while articles 89 to 93 ruled on transit, citizenship and property issues.[64] Per the terms of the Versailles treaty, which was put into effect on 20 January 1920, the corridor was established as Poland's access to the Baltic Sea from 70% of the dissolved province of West Prussia,[65] consisting of a small part of Pomerania with around 140 km of coastline including the Hel Peninsula, and 69 km without it.[66]
The primarily German-speaking seaport of Danzig (Gdańsk), controlling the estuary of the main Polish waterway, the Vistula river, became the Free City of Danzig and was placed under the protection of the League of Nations without a plebiscite.[67] After the dock workers of Danzig harbour went on strike during the Polish–Soviet War, refusing to unload ammunition,[68] the Polish Government decided to build an ammunition depot at Westerplatte, and a seaport at Gdynia in the territory of the Corridor, connected to the Upper Silesian industrial centers by the newly constructed Polish Coal Trunk Line railways.
Exodus of the German population[edit]
A Polish-language poster, illustrating the drop in German population in selected cities of western Poland in the period 1910-1931
The German author Christian Raitz von Frentz writes that after First World War ended, the Polish government tried to reverse the systematic Germanization from former decades.[69] Frederick the Great (King in/of Prussia from 1740 to 1786) settled around 300,000 colonists in the eastern provinces of Prussia and aimed at a removal of the Polish nobility, which he treated with contempt. Frederick also described Poles as "slovenly Polish trash" and compared them to the Iroquois.[70][71] On the other hand, he encouraged administrators and teachers who could speak both German and Polish.[72] Prussia pursued a second colonization aimed at Germanisation after 1832.[73] The Prussians passed laws aiming at Germanisation of the provinces of Posen and West Prussia in the late 19th century. The Prussian Settlement Commission established a further 154,000 colonists, including locals, in the provinces of Posen and West Prussia before World War I. Military personnel were included in the population census. A number of German civil servants and merchants were introduced to the area, which influenced the population status.[74]
According to Richard Blanke, 421,029 Germans lived in the area in 1910, making up 42.5% of the population.[75] Blanke has been criticised by Christian Raitz von Frentz, who has classified his book as part of a series on the subject that has an anti-Polish bias; additionally Polish professor A. Cienciala has described Blanke's views as sympathetic to Germany.[76] In addition to the military personnel included in the population census, a number of German civil-servants and merchants were introduced to the area, which influenced the population mix, according to Andrzej Chwalba.[74] By 1921 the proportion of Germans had dropped to 18.8% (175,771). Over the next decade, the German population decreased by another 70,000 to a share of 9.6%.[77]
German political scientist Stefan Wolff, Professor at the University of Birmingham, says that the actions of Polish state officials after the corridor's establishment followed "a course of assimilation and oppression".[78] As a result, a large number of Germans left Poland after 1918: according to Wolff, 800,000 Germans had left Poland by 1923,[78] according to Gotthold Rhode, 575,000 left the former province of Posen and the corridor after the war,[79] according to Herrmann Rauschning, 800,000 Germans had left between 1918 and 1926,[79] contemporary author Alfons Krysinski estimated 800,000 plus 100,000 from East Upper Silesia,[79] the contemporary German statistics say 592,000 Germans had left by 1921,[79] other Polish scholars say that up to a million Germans left.[79] Polish author Władysław Kulski says that a number of them were civil servants with no roots in the province and around 378,000,[clarification needed] and this is to a lesser degree is confirmed by some German sources such as Hermann Rauschning.[80] Lewis Bernstein Namier raised the question as to whether many of the Germans who left were actually settlers without roots in the area - Namier remarked in 1933 "a question must be raised how many of those Germans had originally been planted artificially in that country by the Prussian Government."[81]
The above-mentioned Richard Blanke, in his book Orphans of Versailles, gives several reasons for the exodus of the German population:
A number of former settlers from the Prussian Settlement Commission who settled in the area after 1886 in order to germanise it were in some cases given a month to leave, in other cases they were told to leave at once.[80]
Poland found itself under threat during the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1919-1921,[80] and the German population feared that Bolshevik forces would control Poland. Migration to Germany was a way to avoid conscription and participation in the war.
State-employed Germans such as judges, prosecutors, teachers and officials left as Poland did not renew their employment contracts. German industrial workers also left due to fear of lower-wage competition. Many Germans had become economically dependent on Prussian state aid as Prussia had fought the "Polish problem" in its provinces.[80]
Germans refused to accept living in a Polish state.[80] As Lewis Bernstein Namier said: "Some Germans undoubtedly left because they would not live under the dominion of a race which they had previously oppressed and despised."[82]
Germans feared that the Poles would seek reprisals after over a century of harassment and discrimination by the Prussian and German state against the Polish population.[80]
Social and linguistic isolation: While the population was mixed, only Poles were required to be bilingual. The Germans usually did not learn Polish. When Polish became the only official language in Polish-majority provinces, their situation became difficult. The Poles shunned Germans, which contributed to their isolation.[80]
Lower standards of living. Poland was a much poorer country than Germany.[80]
Former Nazi politician and later opponent Hermann Rauschning wrote that 10% of Germans were unwilling to remain in Poland regardless of their treatment, and another 10% were workers from other parts of the German Empire with no roots in the region.[80]
Blanke says that official encouragement by the Polish state played a secondary role in the German exodus.[80] Christian Raitz von Frentz notes "that many of the repressive measures were taken by local and regional Polish authorities in defiance of Acts of Parliament and government decrees, which more often than not conformed with the minorities treaty, the Geneva Convention and their interpretation by the League council - though it is also true that some of the central authorities tacitly tolerated local initiatives against the German population."[69] While there were demonstrations and protests and occasional violence against Germans, they were at a local level, and officials were quick to point out that they were a backlash against former discrimination against Poles.[80] There were other demonstrations when Germans showed disloyalty during the Polish–Soviet War[80] as the Red Army announced the return to the pre-war borders of 1914.[83] Despite popular pressure and occasional local actions, perhaps as many as 80% of Germans emigrated more or less voluntarily.[80]
Helmut Lippelt writes that Germany used the existence of German minority in Poland for political ends and as part of its revisionist demands, which resulted in Polish countermeasures. Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski stated in 1923 that the de-Germanization of these territories had to be ended by vigorous and quick liquidation of property and eviction of German "Optanten" (Germans who refused to accept Polish citizenship and per the Versailles Treaty were to leave Poland) so that German nationalists would realise that their view of the temporary state of Polish western border was wrong.[84][dubious – discuss][verification needed] To Lippelt this was partially a reaction to the German claims and partially Polish nationalism, urging to exclude the German element. In turn, anti-Polish prejudice fueled German policy.[84]
Impact on the East Prussian plebiscite[edit]
In the period leading up to the East Prussian plebiscite in July 1920, the Polish authorities tried to prevent traffic through the Corridor, interrupting postal, telegraphic and telephone communication.[85] On March 10, 1920, the British representative on the Marienwerder Plebiscite Commission, H.D. Beaumont, wrote of numerous continuing difficulties being made by Polish officials and added "as a result, the ill-will between Polish and German nationalities and the irritation due to Polish intolerance towards the German inhabitants in the Corridor (now under their rule), far worse than any former German intolerance of the Poles, are growing to such an extent that it is impossible to believe the present settlement (borders) can have any chance of being permanent.... It can confidently be asserted that not even the most attractive economic advantages would induce any German to vote Polish. If the frontier is unsatisfactory now, it will be far more so when it has to be drawn on this side (of the river) with no natural line to follow, cutting off Germany from the river bank and within a mile or so of Marienwerder, which is certain to vote German. I know of no similar frontier created by any treaty."[85]
Impact on German through-traffic[edit]
The German Ministry for Transport established the Seedienst Ostpreußen ("Sea Service East Prussia") in 1922 to provide a ferry connection to East Prussia, now a German exclave, so that it would be less dependent on transit through Polish territory.
Connections by train were also possible by "sealing" the carriages (Korridorzug), i.e. passengers were not forced to apply for an official Polish visa in their passport; however, the rigorous inspections by the Polish authorities before and after the sealing were strongly feared by the passengers.[86]
In May 1925 a train, passing through the Corridor on its way to East Prussia, crashed because the spikes had been removed from the tracks for a short distance and the fishplates unbolted. 25 persons, including 12 women and 2 children, were killed, some 30 others were injured.[87]
Land reform of 1925[edit]
According to Polish Historian Andrzej Chwalba, during the rule of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire various means were used to increase the amount of land owned by Germans at the expense of the Polish population. In Prussia, the Polish nobility had its estates confiscated after the Partitions, and handed over to German nobility.[88] The same applied to Catholic monasteries.[88] Later, the German Empire bought up land in an attempt to prevent the restoration of a Polish majority in Polish inhabited areas in its eastern provinces.[89] Christian Raitz von Frentz notes that measures aimed at reversing past Germanization included the liquidation of farms settled by the German government during the war under the 1908 law.[69]
In 1925 the Polish government enacted a land reform program with the aim of expropriating landowners.[90] While only 39% of the agricultural land in the Corridor was owned by Germans,[90] the first annual list of properties to be reformed included 10,800 hectares from 32 German landowners and 950 hectares from seven Poles.[90] The voivode of Pomorze, Wiktor Lamot, stressed that "the part of Pomorze through which the so-called corridor runs must be cleansed of larger German holdings".[90] The coastal region "must be settled with a nationally conscious Polish population.... Estates belonging to Germans must be taxed more heavily to encourage them voluntarily to turn over land for settlement. Border counties... particularly a strip of land ten kilometers wide, must be settled with Poles. German estates that lie here must be reduced without concern for their economic value or the views of their owners'.[90]
Prominent politicians and members of the German minority were the first to be included on the land reform list and to have their property expropriated.[90]
Weimar German interests[edit]
The creation of the corridor aroused great resentment in Germany, and all interwar governments of the Weimar Republic refused to recognize the eastern borders agreed at Versailles, and refused to follow Germany's acknowledgment of its western borders in the Locarno Treaties of 1925 with a similar declaration with respect to its eastern borders.[78]
Institutions in Weimar Germany supported and encouraged German minority organizations in Poland, in part radicalized by the Polish policy towards them, in filing close to 10,000 complaints about violations of minority rights to the League of Nations.[78]
Poland in 1931 declared her commitment to peace, but pointed out that any attempt to revise its borders would mean war. Additionally, in conversation with U.S. President Herbert Hoover, Polish delegate Filipowicz noted that any continued provocations by Germany could tempt the Polish side to invade, in order to settle the issue once and for all.[91]
Nazi German and Polish diplomacy[edit]
The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, took power in Germany in 1933. Hitler at first ostentatiously pursued a policy of rapprochement with Poland,[92] culminating in the ten-year Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact of 1934. In the years that followed, Germany placed an emphasis on rearmament, as did Poland and other European powers.[93][94] Despite this, the Nazis were able to achieve their immediate goals without provoking armed conflict: firstly, in March 1938 Nazi Germany annexed Austria, and in the late September the Sudetenland after the Munich Agreement; together with Germany Poland also made an advance against Czechoslovakia and annexed Zaolzie (1 October 1938).[95] Germany tried to get Poland to join the Anti-Comintern Pact. Poland refused, as the alliance was rapidly becoming a sphere of influence of an increasingly powerful Germany. [96] On 24 October 1938, the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop asked the Polish ambassador Józef Lipski to have Poland sign the Anti-Comintern Pact.[97] During a visit to Rome on 27–28 October 1938, Ribbentrop told the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano that he wanted to turn the Anti-Comintern Pact into a military alliance, and spoke of his desire to have Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania sign the Anti-Comintern Pact so "all our energies can be directed against the Western democracies".[97] In a secret speech before a group of 200 German journalists on 10 November 1938, Hitler complained that his peace propaganda stressing that his foreign policy was based upon the peaceful revision of the Treaty of Versailles had been too successful with the German people, and he called for a new propaganda campaign intended to stoke a bellicose mood in the Reich.[98] Notably, the enemies Hitler had in mind in his speech was not Poland, but rather France and Britain.[99]
Following negotiations with Hitler on the Munich Agreement, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain reported that, "He told me privately, and last night he repeated publicly, that after this Sudeten German question is settled, that is the end of Germany's territorial claims in Europe".[100] Almost immediately following the agreement, however, Hitler reneged on it. The Nazis increased their requests for the incorporation of the Free City of Danzig into the Reich, citing the "protection" of the German majority as a motive.[101] In November 1938, Danzig's district administrator, Albert Forster, reported to the League of Nations that Hitler had told him Polish frontiers would be guaranteed if the Poles were "reasonable like the Czechs." German State Secretary Ernst von Weizsäcker reaffirmed this alleged guarantee in December 1938.[102] In the winter of 1938-1939, Germany placed increasing pressure on Poland and Hungary to sign the Anti-Comintern Pact.[103]
Initially, the main concern of Germany diplomacy was not Danzig or the Polish Corridor, but rather having Poland sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, which as the American historian Gerhard Weinberg noted was "...a formal gesture of political and diplomatic obeisance to Berlin, separating them from any other past or prospective international ties, and having nothing to do with the Soviet Union at all".[103] In late 1938-early 1939, Hitler had decided upon war with Britain and France, and having Poland sign the Anti-Comintern Pact was intended to protect the Reich's eastern border while the Wehrmacht turned west.[103] In November 1938, Hitler ordered his Foreign Minister Ribbentrop to convert the Anti-Comintern Pact, which had been signed with the Empire of Japan in 1936 and joined by Fascist Italy in 1937 into an anti-British military alliance.[103] Starting in October 1938, the main focus on German military planning was for a war against Britain with Hitler ordering the Luftwaffe to start building a strategical bombing force capable of bombing British cities.[104] On 17 January 1939, Hitler approved of the famous Z Plan that called for a gigantic fleet to take on the Royal Navy and on 27 January 1939 he ordered that henceforward the Kriegsmarine was to have first priority for defense spending.[104]
The situation regarding the Free City and the Polish Corridor created a number of headaches for German and Polish Customs.[105] The Germans requested the construction of an extra-territorial Reichsautobahn freeway (to complete the Reichsautobahn Berlin-Königsberg) and railway through the Polish Corridor, effectively annexing Polish territory and connecting East Prussia to Danzig and Germany proper, while cutting off Poland from the sea and its main trade route. If Poland agreed, in return they would extend the non-aggression pact for 25 years.[106]
This seemed to conflict with Hitler's plans to turn Poland into a satellite state and with Poland's rejection of the Anti-Comintern Pact, and his desire either to isolate or to gain support against the Soviet Union.[106] German newspapers in Danzig and Nazi Germany played an important role in inciting nationalist sentiment: headlines buzzed about how Poland was misusing its economic rights in Danzig and German Danzigers were increasingly subjugated to the will of the Polish state.[101] At the same time, Hitler also offered Poland additional territory as an enticement, such as the possible annexation of Lithuania, the Memel Territory, Soviet Ukraine and parts of the Czech lands.[107] [108] However, Polish leaders continued to fear for the loss of their independence and a fate like that of Czechoslovakia,[108] which had yielded the Sudetenland to Germany in October 1938, only to be invaded by Germany in March 1939. Some felt that the Danzig question was inextricably tied to the problems in the Polish Corridor and any settlement regarding Danzig would be one step towards the eventual loss of Poland's access to the sea.[101] Hitler's credibility outside Germany was very low after the occupation of Czechoslovakia, though some British and French politicians approved of a peaceful revision of the corridor's borders.[109]
In 1939, Nazi Germany made another attempt to renegotiate the status of Danzig;[102][110][111] Poland was to retain a permanent right to use the seaport if the route through the Polish Corridor was to be constructed.[110] However, the Polish administration distrusted Hitler and saw the plan as a threat to Polish sovereignty, practically subordinating Poland to the Axis and the Anti-Comintern Bloc while reducing the country to a state of near-servitude as its entire trade would be dependent on Germany. [112] [113] Robert Coulondre, the French ambassador in Berlin in a dispatch to the Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet wrote on 30 April 1939 that Hitler sought: "...a mortgage on Polish foreign policy, while itself retaining complete liberty of action allowing the conclusion of political agreements with other countries. In these circumstances, the new settlement proposed by Germany, which would link the questions of Danzig and of the passage across the Corridor with counterbalancing questions of a political nature, would only serve to aggravate this mortgage and practically subordinate Poland to the Axis and the Anti-Comintern Bloc. Warsaw refused this in order to retain its independence."[112]
Hitler used the issue of the status city as pretext for attacking Poland, while explaining during a high-level meeting of German military officials in May 1939 that his real goal is obtaining Lebensraum for Germany, isolating Poles from their Allies in the West and afterwards attacking Poland, thus avoiding the repeat of the Czech situation, where the Western powers became involved.[114][115][116][117][118]
Ultimatum of 1939[edit]
Main article: 1939 German ultimatum to Poland
A revised and less favorable proposal came in the form of an ultimatum delivered by the Nazis in late August, after the orders had already been given to attack Poland on September 1, 1939. Nevertheless, at midnight on August 29, von Ribbentrop handed British Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson a list of terms that would allegedly ensure peace in regard to Poland. Danzig was to return to Germany and there was to be a plebiscite in the Polish Corridor; Poles who had been born or had settled there since 1919 would have no vote, while all Germans born but not living there would. An exchange of minority populations between the two countries was proposed. If Poland accepted these terms, Germany would agree to the British offer of an international guarantee, which would include the Soviet Union. A Polish plenipotentiary, with full powers, was to arrive in Berlin and accept these terms by noon the next day. The British Cabinet viewed the terms as "reasonable," except the demand for a Polish Plenipotentiary, which was seen as similar to Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha accepting Hitler's terms in mid-March 1939.
When Ambassador Józef Lipski went to see Ribbentrop on August 30, he was presented with Hitler's demands. However, he did not have the full power to sign and Ribbentrop ended the meeting. News was then broadcast that Poland had rejected Germany's offer.[102]
Nazi German invasion – end of the corridor[edit]
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The German Fourth Army defeated the Polish Pomorze Army, which had been tasked with the defense of this region, and captured the corridor during the Battle of Tuchola Forest by September 5. The corridor was subsequently directly annexed by Germany until it was recaptured by the Red Army at the end of the war.[119] Other notable battles took place at Westerplatte, the Polish post office in Danzig, Oksywie, and Hel.
Ethnic composition[edit]
Most of the area was inhabited by Poles, Germans, and Kashubians. The census of 1910 showed that there were 528,000 Poles (including West Slavic Kashubians) compared to 385,000 Germans in the region.[41] The census included German soldiers stationed in the area as well as public officials sent to administer the area. Since 1886, a Settlement Commission was set up by Prussia to enforce German settlement[120] while at the same time Poles, Jews and Germans migrated west during the Ostflucht.[121] In 1921 the proportion of Germans in Pomerania (where the Corridor was located) was 18.8% (175,771). Over the next decade, the German population decreased by another 70,000 to a share of 9.6%.[77] There was also a Jewish minority. in 1905, Kashubians numbered about 72,500.[122] After the occupation by Nazi Germany, a census was made by the German authorities in December 1939. 71% of people declared themselves as Poles, 188,000 people declared Kashubian as their language, 100,000 of those declared themselves Polish.[123]
German Population in the Polish Corridor as of 1921 according to
Richard Blanke, Orphans of Versailles: The Germans in Western Poland 1918-1939, 1993[124]
of which German
Działdowo (Soldau) 23,290 8,187 34.5% (35.2%)
Lubawa (Löbau) 59,765 4,478 7.6%
Brodnica (Strasburg) 61,180 9,599 15.7%
Wąbrzeźno (Briesen) 47,100 14,678 31.1%
Toruń (Thorn) 79,247 16,175 20.4%
Chełmno (Kulm) 46,823 12,872 27.5%
Świecie (Schwetz) 83,138 20,178 24.3%
Grudziądz (Graudenz) 77,031 21,401 27.8%
Tczew (Dirschau) 62,905 7,854 12.5%
Wejherowo (Neustadt) 71,692 7,857 11.0%
Kartuzy (Karthaus) 64,631 5,037 7.8%
Kościerzyna (Berent) 49,935 9,290 18.6%
Starogard Gdański (Preußisch Stargard) 62,400 5,946 9.5%
Chojnice (Konitz) 71,018 13,129 18.5%
Tuchola (Tuchel) 34,445 5,660 16.4%
Sępólno Krajeńskie (Zempelburg) 27,876 13,430 48.2%
(922,476 when added) 175,771
(19.1% with 922,476)
After World War II[edit]
The Oder–Neisse line
Further information: History of Pomerania
At the 1945 Potsdam Conference following the German defeat in World War II, Poland's borders were reorganized at the insistence of the Soviet Union, which occupied the entire area. Territories east of the Oder-Neisse line, including Danzig, were put under Polish administration. The Potsdam Conference did not debate about the future of the territories that were part of western Poland before the war, including the corridor. It automatically became part of the reborn state in 1945.
Many German residents were executed,[citation needed] others were expelled to the Soviet occupation zone, which later became East Germany.
The corridor in literature[edit]
In The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, H. G. Wells correctly predicted that the corridor would be the starting point of a future Second World War. He depicted the war as beginning in January 1940 and would involve heavy aerial bombing of civilians, but that it would result in a 10-year trench warfare-esque stalemate between Poland and Germany eventually leading to a worldwide societal collapse in the 1950's.
Similar corridors[edit]
Other land corridors linking a country either to the sea or to a remote part of the country are:
Czech Corridor (concept)
Eilat Corridor[125] (Israel)
Jerusalem Corridor (Israel)
Antofagasta[125] or Atacama corridor (Bolivia)
Persian Corridor (Iran 1941–1946)
Lachin corridor (Armenia/Azerbaijan)
Siliguri Corridor (India)
Teen Bigha Corridor (Bangladesh)
Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan, this corridor was not created to link, but to separate areas)
Bosnian Corridor
Brčko corridor (Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Kaliningrad Post Soviet-Union rail and road links through Lithuania and Belarus to Russia proper from the now-detached Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
Caprivi Strip (Namibia, connecting the then German South West Africa to the Zambezi River)
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Slow Man – Book Review
By Wendy in Books, Main Page
Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? -From Slow Man, page 149-
This was my first Coetzee novel, and it will not be my last. In Slow Man, Coetzee tells the story of Paul Rayment, an older man who loses his leg in a freak bicycle accident and must decide the path of his life following this devastating event. Paul is a man who has lived a relatively solitary life and regrets his lack of children. He gave up his career as a photographer when colour replaced black and white and digital imagery replaced light-sensitive emulsions because '…to the rising generation the enchantment lay in the techne of images without substance, images that could flash throught he ether without resideing anywhere, that could be sucked into a machine and emerge from it doctored, untrue.' (From Slow Man, page 65).
As the reader meets the other characters (Marijana, Marianna, Drago, and the bold Elizabeth Costello) she is treated to a literary puzzle about love, loss and mortality. Coetzee engages the reader with sharp dialogue and an edgy wit. He plays with the meaning of words and names – which had me re-reading passages and marking pages for later contemplation.
Slow Man is a demanding novel despite it's brevity. At times it is difficult to know which character and whose story can be trusted. Perhaps this idea is best captured as Paul ruminates about his career as a photographer:
He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable. Whereas stories – the story of the needle in the bloodstream, for instance, or the story of how he and Wayne Blight came to meet on Magill Road – seem to change shape all the time. -From Slow Man, page 64-
I cannot say more about this novel without giving away important plot points – and so, I will simply recommend that readers read Coetzee's book for themselves.
Prayers For Nattie
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This morning the world lost a bright and shining light. Natalie lost her battle with cancer.
It is hard to understand why a person with so much to live for would be taken from us so quickly. My heart hurts. I think of those she has left behind and my grief and tears are for them – not Nattie, who I know is with God now – but for her children, her parents, and her friends who will have to live their lives here on earth without her. There are very few people who can reach across cyberspace and move another's heart as Nattie did. Even as she lay in a hospital bed, battling for her life, she thought of others – dictating words for her daddy to write on her blog to sooth and update her many friends.
She was special.
And she will be missed.
There are times when a person touches one's heart – it's inexplicable – but there you have it. A fellow blogger and a member of some of my Yahoo book groups (including my group – ANovelChallenge) is battling cancer. I don't know why Nattie has touched my heart the way she has, but I feel connected to her. I don't know Nattie very well. I love reading her blog. I find her wit and her faith uplifting. When I heard she had been diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer, I felt a deep hurt, a kick in the gut, a feeling of disbelief. Nattie is young and has two children. She is determined to fight this cancer.
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Lockheed Martin prototype turret expands laser performance at jet speeds
By Anthony James on	 22nd October 2015 Defense, Weapons Testing
Because enemy aircraft and missiles can come from anywhere, a laser weapon system on a military aircraft will need to be able to fire in any direction. However, the laws of physics say that a laser only can engage targets in front of an aircraft that is travelling close to the speed of sound – unless atmospheric turbulence can be counteracted. That is what Lockheed Martin has done in developing a prototype laser turret for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), paving the way for laser weapon systems on tactical aircraft.
The Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control (ABC) turret is the first turret ever to demonstrate a 360-degree field of regard for laser weapon systems on an aircraft flying near the speed of sound. Its performance has been verified in nearly 60 flight tests conducted in 2014 and 2015 using a business jet as a low-cost flying test bed. As the aircraft travelled at jet cruise speeds, a low-power laser beam was fired through the turret's optical window to measure and verify successful performance in all directions.
The design uses the latest aerodynamic and flow-control technology to minimize the impacts of turbulence on a laser beam. An optical compensation system, which uses deformable mirrors, then is used to ensure that the beam can get through the atmosphere to the target. Left unchecked, turbulence would scatter the light particles that make up a laser beam, much like fog diffuses a flashlight beam.
"This advanced turret design will enable tactical aircraft to have the same laser weapon system advantages as ground vehicles and ships," said Doug Graham, vice president of missile systems and advanced programs, Strategic and Missile Defense Systems, Lockheed Martin Space Systems. "This is an example of how Lockheed Martin is using a variety of innovative technologies to transform laser devices into integrated weapon systems."
DARPA and AFRL will use the results of the flight tests in determining future requirements for laser weapon systems on high-speed aircraft and expanding their effectiveness.
Lockheed Martin is positioning laser weapon systems for success on the battlefield because of their advantages of speed, flexibility, precision and low cost per engagement. The corporation's advances include the development and demonstration of precision pointing and control, line-of-sight stabilization and adaptive optics and high-power fiber lasers.
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How much time or money have you invested on training and education, either for yourself or for your staff in the last 12 months?
I'd be willing to bet that for some of you reading this, the answer is "not a lot"!
Why would you not want to improve the way you do business?
According to one of the world's leading marketers Jay Abraham, "for every £1 you invest in training within your business, you should be looking for at least a 20 times Return On Investment (ROI)".
To earn returns like that on your training you need to first identify the areas in your business where you can potentially improve how you work the most, and then target it with specific training.
For example if your Customer Services team are failing to convert phone enquiries in to hard orders, then that is an area where training will soon earn you multiple returns on your training investment.
Where are the most likely areas in your business that training will provide the most substantial returns?
If you could improve your own or your sales team's conversion rate by 20% what would that be worth to your business? Learning how to improve your sales process is one of the most powerful things you can do to boost your growth, yet very few small business owners have had any sales training!
Sales training could cover how you close the deal; or how you get more diary appointments with prospects; of how you make a sales presentation. If you run an online business it could be training on designing a sales funnel that increase your sales and leads.
Just like sales training, very few owners have had any marketing training. But understanding the options for positioning your products, services and business are critical if you're to maximise your success.
Do you know how to identify and reach your target audience? Do you know how to write an advert that attracts your desired leads? Do you know the only 4 ways there are to grow your business? Do you know how to develop different marketing channels for your business? Do you use Upsells, Cross Sells and Complimentary Products?
Do you understand the difference between brand marketing and direct response marketing and which of these you should be using?
Developing a deep understanding of marketing and how you can use it to grow your business is vital if you want to achieve real success.
What about the services you currently offer? How can you develop your skills in order to offer specialist services that you can charge premium prices for? The more specialist you and your business can become, the more you can charge in the future.
Training on your technical skills can pay massive returns if you know how to market those new skills correctly.
How can you improve your customer service? Well how many phone enquiries currently convert in to orders? How many of your leads or customers do you follow up with? Do you have systems in place to ensure you regularly contact your clients and prospect lists?
Another area that is usually avoided by small business owners is accounting. Yes an understanding of tax rules in particular can help save your business a lot of money.
But what about accounting and decision making? When you truly understand your numbers you will make much better business decisions and you'll recognise opportunities much quicker. For example do you understand the difference between relevant costs and sunk costs? Do you know why your balance sheet and income statement shouldn't be used for decision making?
If you haven't already then go and get yourself some training in management accounting for small businesses.
At this point I'd like to mention a guy called Brian Tracy. Brian is a Management Consultant in the US who has written lots of book on self-development, achieving goals, business growth and sales. Like Jay Abraham I really recommend his materials, he knows his stuff! In particular his CDs and courses on Selling are brilliant, and every small business owner should invest in them to maximise the growth of their own sales.
Why have I mentioned Brian Tracy at this point?
I'd endorse that advice for those of who you really want to grow both your business and personal earnings.
Personally I've spent thousands of hours on my own self development.
In my early 20's I studied in my own time to qualify as a Management Accountant.
In my early 30's I studied in my own time to achieve my Masters Degree in Business.
In my forties I've spent a fortune on books and courses covering all aspects of self-development and both online and offline marketing for small businesses.
What will I study in my fifties? Pension annuities I guess!
So how are you going to invest your 3%?
Why not start today by investing just a few minutes of your time improving your marketing skills…?
Learn how you can boost your business profits in just 10 minutes a day. The simple tasks in the plan will transform your business very quickly and get you thinking differently about your business.
Once you've see how powerful the simple 3 Step Transformation Plan is, consider investing some of your 3% in my premium product the "Rapid Growth Marketing Blueprint" for Small Business Owners.
The Blueprint covers every aspect of marketing your small business, including accounting for decision making. I'll show you how to boost your conversions, positions your business, find more leads, improve your sales process and much, much more!
I promise you won't be disappointed when you start implementing the growth strategies in the Blueprint!
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AT&T and T-Mobile's Plan to Merge – GOOD for Cellular Customers
News that the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile came as a shock to most of us following the deal. As CEO of a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that operates on AT&T's cellular network, we believe the merger is valuable and should be approved.
If allowed to go through, the merger would mean greater spectrum, speed, service enhancements, and wireless access to millions of customers living in rural areas across the nation. In addition, many in urban areas will see cellular service improvements as well. The expanded and enhanced service will also enable enterprise and wholesale clients such as Consumer Cellular to be more competitive and better meet the needs of their customers.
Between falling stock prices, declining customers and a lack of support from parent company Deutsche Telekom, it is clear that T-Mobile can no longer stand alone as a company. Rather than trying to force competition by hoping T-Mobile survives as a national competitor, the government should focus its efforts on approving the deal with the appropriate controls and restrictions to ensure consumers will benefit.
While many of us within the industry are hard-pressed to believe the merger will not eventually be approved, the idea that the government would take this action in the name of maintaining cellular competition is short-sighted and disappointing.
With the proper provisions to protect consumers and ensure unrestricted access to the enterprise and wholesale community, AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile would lead to great things for the wireless industry and American citizens.
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1 Thought on "AT&T and T-Mobile's Plan to Merge – GOOD for Cellular Customers"
Joe zimbello says
Restrictions never work A.T. & T has bought off so many public officials.. especially the PA attorney General,s office.. I petitioned 3 times about breach of contract and propagandist promises they never fulfilled, yet the AGs office says they"re right Im wrong, so much for consumer protections.. I hope this merger never goes thru.. T-Moblie can do just fine on its own
and is a better deal than AT&T. As for AT&T, I will never again use their services. What a RipOff.
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Q: How to go about creating a gallery of images from an array of urls in node. I have an array of images which I'd like to display an array of images and also be able to select multiple images etc.
Thanks, I couldn't find any resources online.

A: I think you can find your solution on google https://www.google.it/#q=image+gallery+node.js

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Published in: Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Volume 10, 2014.
Image, brand and reputation are the new capital for nations in the twenty-first century. In this era of the global marketplace, nations, regions and cities are forced to compete with each other for tourists, investment, aid, students, for buyers of their products and services, and for talent. Scholars now agree that nations themselves have become brands, and are now obliged to manage their images in order to influence people's decision in terms of purchasing, investing and traveling. Nations with unknown or poor reputations, including those enduring prolonged crises are thus likely to suffer marginalization and will not easily witness economic success (Viosca et al; Avraham and Ketter). In this article, I aim to explore the challenges confronting Brand Jamaica. I argue that positive global coverage of Jamaica's outstanding brand achievements in sports, music and as a premier tourism destination, is being negated by its rival brands – economic instability (debt, poverty unemployment), crime, corruption and perceptions of declining human rights. The consequence is a contradictory, perplexing and problematic public image of Jamaica, with severe consequences for investment, tourism promotion as well as economic and social progress. The article points at the imperative for Jamaican authorities to evaluate the nation's public image, manage the impact of prolonged crises on its brand and attempt to re-imagine Jamaica, in light of changing fortunes.
Johnson, Hume N. 2014. "JAMAICA: A Famous, Strong but Damaged Brand." Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 10: 199-217.