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There were many different parties among them: first of all, one for the Entente; a second, Bilinski's party; above all, one for the Central Powers, especially when we gained military successes. On the whole, Polish policy was to show their hand as little as possible to any particular group, and in the end range themselves on the side of the conquerors.
The Times correspondent at Warsaw reported that "in general M. Bilinski's tone was optimistic and appeared to satisfy his audience." The terms of the Peace Treaty imposed on the Austrian Republic bear no relation to the real facts of that State's desperate situation.
But Stanislaus knew well enough what were the limits of Bilinski's authority and he was not at all the sort of boy to be easily bullied by a mere assumption of authority that did not exist. The result always was that Stanislaus continued to do what his own conscience urged him to do, and that Bilinski and Paul felt helpless in the face of his quiet, fearless persistence.
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