User talk:Dirgela/Klaipeda

Klaipeda / Memel / K&#322;ajpeda / Wherever
You mentioned the Polish claims for Klaipeda as a compensation for loss of Danzig after WWI. To be sincere, it's the first time I hear of such claims 0 really the first time in my life. Could you give some more info?

One of the plans for settling the problem with Central Lithuania was to establish a historical "Samogitia" as a state of Lithuania composed of two or three semi-independent cantons with a common central government. In such solution the League of Nations proposed that Poles be granted rights to use the port of Memel at no charge while Lithuania would use the Polish rail net free. This proposal was boycotted, first by Lithuania and then by Poland, so it never came into being, but it was not a Polish claim, rather a proposal by one of the League of Nations idealists. Did you mean that plan or were there any other similar situations I never heard of?

BTW, I'm not trying to make any point, I'm just asking out of sheer curiosity. Halibutt 19:36, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)


 * I was reffering to an earlier period - during the preparation of Treaty of Versailles there was an option discussed to handle Memelgebiet over to Poland instead of making it protectorate of Allies. However I cannot provide more concrete facts before checking it myself (maybe I am mistaken). Dirgela 11:57, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)