Editing Polish Corridor (section)

==== The Inquiry's opinion ====

[[David Hunter Miller]], in his diary from the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]], noted that the problem of Polish access to the sea was very difficult because leaving the entirety of [[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.

<blockquote>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 nationalism|Prussian sentiment]], they are quite secondary".<ref name="Hunter Miller"/></blockquote>

In the end, The Inquiry's recommendations were only partially implemented: most of [[West Prussia]] was given to Poland, but Danzig became a [[Free City of Danzig|Free City]].