Originally posted by
Kalan
Poland has pissed off all their neighbours: Lithuania by taking Vilnius, USSR by expanding so far beyond the Curzon-line, Czechoslovakia by claiming several areas, and Germany by taking the West-Prussia an Poznan. So a smart chancellor could form an alliance with all those countries to give the border revision and a possible war a multilateral dimension.
And I don't see why so many belive that France would intervene: IOTL the sold Czechoslovakia which was a) democratic and b) never part of Germany. Poland wasn't democratic and the western parts had been part of Germany so Germany should get the support from France and England for this Border revision
A few corrections, if I may. You're right about Vilnius, although I think Poles were majority in the town itself (not necessarly in territory around it); USSR was angry with Poland because Poland existed and defeated Soviets in 1920; as I mentioned in one of my previous post, Curzon Line wasn't any natural and obvious border between Poland and USSR (which, BTW, wasn't recognized by any goverment at that time, i.e. 1919-1920), only a British proposition based on old Prussian-Russian border from 1797 (after last partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), so Poles had no reason to feel obligated to honor that border; as far as Czechoslovakia goes, there was a dispute about Tesin/Cieszyn (or Zaolzie) - there was even a short conflict (started by Czechoslovakians) to be settled by plebiscite, but in 1920 Czechoslovakian prime minister Benes convinced Entente to give the territory to Czechoslovakia: Poland was busy fighting Soviets and couldn't do anything about it; anyway, after 1921 the disputed territory belonged to Czechoslovakia, although it is true Poles still had some claims about it and Polish-Czechoslovakian relations were poisoned by that matter.
And finally, before 1918 there was no Polish state at all - part of Poland was occupied by Russia, part by Austria-Hungary, part by Germany. So the argument that western Poland had been earlier a part of Germany makes no sense at all, because before 1918 every part of Poland had belonged to one of those 3 countries. The same kind of argument could be that Czechoslovakia had been part of Austria, so after Anschluss Germany had every right to conquer Czechoslovakia as well. Notice also, that in the project of revision of borders Poznań is still Polish.
As far as French intervention goes there is difference between Wehrmacht in 1938 (although it wasn't as powerful as many believed) and Reichswehr in 1921-1933. At that time Polish and French army together could easily defeat Germany, and all interested parties knew it.
Now, about coalition you propose: Germany, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, USSR. USSR wasn't trusted by anybody, and the last thing any democratic country wanted was Red Army going west again - who knew where it would stop; Lituanians had their own dispute with Germany about Memel; Czechoslovakia had no territorial claims about Poland and no reason to start the war. Anyway, I don't think France would have watched passively another partition of Poland. Not because of old Polish-French friendship, but because Poland was France's biggest ally in Central Europe, and very useful shield against USSR and Germany.