Christian Democrat ic Party's view on the situation of the Polish Minority in Lithuania in 1930s

Lietuvos krikščionių demokratų partijos publicistai turėjo savo požiūrį į lenkų tautinės mažumos padėtį Lietuvoje tarpukariu, kuri skyrėsi nuo tautininkų požiūrio. Skirtumai skleidėsi vertinant tiek politinį dalyvavimą, tiek tautos atstovybės klausimą, tiek tarpvalstybinius Lietuvos ir Lenkijos santykius. Esmė buvo ta, kad krikščionys demokratai kritiškiau vertino Lenkijos politiką, o tautinės mažumos atstovai buvo laikomi politinės padėties įkaitais. Tautininkai padėtį vertino priešingai, tad iš esmės pažiūros lenkų tautinės mažumos atžvilgiu konceptualiai išsiskyrė.Lithuanian Christian democrats had a very clear understanding of the situation of Polish national minority in Lithuanian in 1930s. First of all we must mention the main problems that had made the context for publications. The first one was elections to municipal councils and parliament. Despite negative ideological evaluation of Polish minority (the attitude toward Polish minority was based on primordial conception), their political rights were emphasized as very important for democracy in Lithuania. The second problem was the ultimatum of Poland to Lithuania. In this context national minority was shown as a hostage of politicians. This means that such critical situation has not made negative influence on the image of Polish minority. The last but not the least problem was the return of Vilnius region to Lithuania. Christian democrats gave us a strange conception that they have evaluated situations as the final salvation of the problems between Poles and Lithuanians. Keeping in mind the fact of occupation of Poland, such statement was very strange