was asserted in those days that General Sklac;lkowski'sGovernment, based on the Sanacja, had· been chosen by Providence and was the only one capable of strengthening Poland,-so to-day it is asserted that only a Government based on the Bloc is capable of assuring permanently her independence and of re-building her from the ruins. Certainly, as in the "Sanacja" period, so to-day, every work gives some results. But this technique is not, to-day, an exclusive secret of one or other government. To-day everybody knows already how to build a house or a bridge, whether it be in the United States or in Europe, in the Soviet Union or in China. In Poland too we have the same results, irrespective of whether the work is being done under the "Sanacja" or under the Government of National Unity. Thus, the fact that, as time passes, the nation is creating ever greater values through its own work, is not a particular merit of this Government. Is it not a fact that in the course of one year, in 1938, under the regime of the hated "Camp of National Unity" more houses and flats were built in Warsaw than today? Also, dresses are being made in the same way all over the world, whether it is the Conservatives, the Democrats oi: the adherents of totalitarianism who govern. Only, these dresses not always suit citizens equally well. And, I suppose, those citizens have the right to choose the tailor. Every tailor claims to be perfect and every government considers itself the best and the one set up by Providence. There probably has never been a Government in the world which would not claim that its only aim is to bring about general prosperity and to make the nation happy. That was the case under the Vasa and the Saxon dynasties, under the Targowica, under Wielopolski, under the " Old Polish Members," under Pilsudski and Skladkowski-and it is still the same to-day. All governments claim that they aim only at the general good and the independence of the whole nation and those who disagree with them are called enemies of the country, traitors, idiots or reactionaries. Pilsudski called the Poles a nation of idiots and concluded that, in their own interest, he had the right to educate them by using the whip. To-day's ruling elite, "the best in the nation," 46 BibliotecaGino Bianco
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