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The Rights of Minorities Under the Treaty with Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Abstract

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Editorial Comment
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1920

References

1 Treaty of Peace between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan and Poland. Signed June 28, 1919. Supplement to this Journal, October, 1919, p. 423.

Art. 1. Poland undertakes that the stipulations contained in Articles 2 to 8 of this chapter shall be recognized as fundamental laws, and that no law, regulation or official action shall conflict or interfere with these stipulations, nor shall any law, regulation or official action prevail over them.

Art. 2. Poland undertakes to assure full and complete protection of life and liberty to all inhabitants of Poland without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race or religion.

All inhabitants of Poland shall be entitled to the free exercise, whether public or private, of any creed, religion or belief, whose practices are not inconsistent with public order or public morals.