This article focuses on the book "The Upper Silesian Question and Germany's Coal Problem," by Sidney Osborne. Osborne's book throws a new and much needed light on the vexed Upper Silesian problem, carefully surveying historic, economic, and political facts, bringing to light many aspects which have long been buried in propaganda, and presenting them all forcefully and convincingly. Osborne shows that Wasserpolnisch, the language spoken by the uneducated, which is a mixture of Polish and German, is so unlike polish that when Polish agitators went to Upper Silesia to gain support among the people