candidate: The plan was criticized by some of the Polish military and Western advisors , but supported by politicians who feared the effect of abandoning a significant part of the population to the enemy without a fight , and who were further discouraged from abandoning those territories as the Polish allies ( France and the United Kingdom ) did not guarantee the Borders of Poland and might well decide to allow the Germans to take the Polish Corridor they demanded in exchange for peace ( pursuing a policy of appeasement ) .