prices, France defended itself with increased tariffs while Italy did not, and this led Russia closer to the anti-French bloc of Italy and Germany. A different power play could be seen by looking at the Polish problem. To assert the permanence of its western border, Poland set up a system of pacts designed to keep France, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia as allies. Bonhoeffer pointed out that the threatening stance of Poland had led to the exodus of Germans from eastern Prussia, which, in turn, had