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O Reds Repulse Poles As' As Allies in Wr Wor F Former Prime Minister 1 of ot of Poland P l thid I by C 5 Installment 6 Editors note I In this ws install Installment Install Install- ment of e. e Coming CODling n I T Terror Terror- rr r t v ic i pr c t Mee r J k heck l IX c Y Yell ell r 1 f th poJ of appeasing B l Uko Ia i ria led forr for d death ath by Stalin's g fl i tp to safety e r in t the l d. d f States When Hitler BlUer attacked R E s I a. a June 22 1941 climaxing n. n serIes of inter-Axis inter political cl clashes hes of which we we ih had d been informed bythe by bythe bythe the Polish underground und und- Winston Churchill went iMmediately li tel to to the wireless to to welcome th the Soviets 0 to th the s 's side e the g d moc- moc The United States still ne neutral S took a somewhat less enthusiastic nth view Sumner W Welles lles reported In Inthe inthe the opinion of ot this government any rallying of the forces opposite from whatever source they may spring will h hasten Bt n the downfall of the German leaders and will therefore be t to the b benefit bene ne- ne fit of our our own defense and nd ity Our Our Po Polish gov government exile r had something to say too In behalf be be- halt half of the country most deeply concerned Poland had been debased debased de de- de based by both Germans and Rus Run In addition to unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented dented cruelties to our our ur civilians the Fascists and the Communists had divided d P Poland land in two with th the Molotov line Une It was still div divided ded on June Jun 22 Slakes Makes Up Mind Our cabinet met in London and m made up d up its mind Our prime prune minister Gen en Skor kl issued a statement st t t i ii nt Pol Poland nd he said did didot not ot rule out the possibility of an unde understanding wt with j the e Y 11 USSR S Hu H- H i 1 u unlike Bri Britain 1 arid and th the U. U S. S Sr w we h had c to pre I aen en us ra p 11 nii 1St ai- ai P t v f ti again g u ou t yo w which t test est dl b a the R Re J had ro 1939 R is also et f ree ie i 1 tf P Polish men and id nten the Reds had driven into Russia i in fo s 's slave ye Iab labor r. r and Md s sP P Polish Ush prisoners ncr of of- war vi t tin in the theUS theU e et t U U'S US S R mu must f be fr reed freed and given every opportunity to the battle against the Germans The e condition W we wc were r most certainly gen r us We h had d rul ruled d out but reparations and d' d Indemnities th- th n nitie th though gh entitled d to b both We had d' d t to forgive iti if not t forget that v. v in 1939 had hads s said ld Poland as as an an am independent tate state t is Is do doomed med f forever reVer that t the h Reds had stabbed us in the back cack had cold cold bio appropriated half of our country with which it held helca a a. pact pact burned our cities kUl killed pur d u people and driven many many o others othera eiB Into pitiless piti pitt- less serfdom But to our astonishment when we sat down with Russian Am- Am Malsk Malsky in L London to draw up our new new p pact ct with th this thin huge new bedfellow in the Ue camp of the Allies we learned that Russia was not willing to accept all aU of our conditions Stunned and unbelieving we asked Anthony Eden t to help Us ts obtain this bare mh minimum lm m of d dm de demands m mands but found him immersed in almost the romantic enthusiasm of Chur Churchill over ver the thc v very ry See P Page e 4 Column ol I 1 J Russ fuss Refused to Accept Poles as War Allies Continued from Pago o One pres presence of ot the Russians t in in the he i wary wara ari I We objected but it were asked to remain silent lit In the Interests interest of alliett alliet unity a a- a phrase used faithfully by the then western powers and abused by u the e R Russians Russians' from the very beginning of their forced light against Hitler HiUer We Wo remained silent and we compromised 0 The pact which signed with Malsky in l tendon andon on July 30 30 1941 provided ed among other things that L 1 The TIle Soviet government recognized recognized that the Soviet German treaties of at 1939 1039 as as' to territorial changes In Poland th the trop-Molotov trop line had lost their validity i 2 The S Soviet o v vie I e t government granted an an amnesty to all aJI Polish citizens ns imprisoned in the U US S S RA RA R. R A HA valuable contribution to the allied cause Id Eden said e l' l Moral Defeat to Poles But to us UBI it tt was wu a moral defeat It was waa th the beginning of ot the appeasement appeasement ap ap- of Russia which cona con con continues to this day ay J We Wf had ad asked for tor 1 Russia's recognition bf ot the 1921 boundaries by byname flame n me n not not Just t just j a dissolution of the line c. c And we fought the inclusion sion of ot the v word ord u in the in the h new new pact for tor it made it IV sl p appear ar th that t Russia was was doing a. a- a generous genc ous thing in re releasing releasing re re-i leasing Polish Po citizens they had tad crimin carried of off to captivity We Vc failed and could could- not raise our voice Three Three- Three rs of our cabinet resigned J bs in protest The rest of us ua stayed hoping hoping- that the hand handwriting ng that nt seemed so plain to us on the wall of of history was somehow an illusion Jen Gen lived for or the day when Polish armies reformed reformed in Russia would fight ight at the side of Red army men and that in the heat o of battle the thee two wo groups would be united as as' understanding brothers w lUlli military ary Agreement With that In hi mind he set about the task of providing a Polish Polish- Soviet military agreement which h hon on Aug 11 H. 1941 was signed in Moscow It was agreed that 1 A Polish army would uld be organized organized organized or or- immediately in Russia I 2 The army would b be part of the a sovereign forces lov f forces of Poland 3 Polish soldiers in Ru Russia ia would receive the pay rations and maintenance a accorded corded the Red fled army anny 4 Russia aided by such lend- lend ease as Poland was to receive from rom the U S S. would o outfit and teed seed the Polish army in Russia i Between the time of ot these two p p our a r ambassador to Russia Russin S v Kot who ho though a a sick m. m mars man n had had flown across Germany to get getto 10 to his post w was s busy with tho task of releasing and caring for tori the multitudes of af Pole Poles imprisoned Im Im- im imprisoned in hi Russia Gen Wladys- Wladys the great soldier who ha had been named commander in chi chief of ot the Polish army in Russia by Gen Con scoured the country for lor his old troops and other Poles fit to fight Misgivings Mount In London our misgivings mounted as we began receiving reports reports' from rom Kot and Anders that tha the Ru Russians were releasing ou our people v w with ith th grudging reluctance The tone of our our- first pact with the new ally aUy continued to be a source of alarm and when Pres Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met to fashion their Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic charter we Hoped for better days The pr precepts of ot that charter are of course familiar tc to all Suffice it to say that it calls calla f for no territorial changes hanges that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the this peoples concerned and the right of all peoples to choose the the type of at government under which they will live and promises that sovereign rights and self government will be re restored restored restored re- re stored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them Our efforts to get the British and U. U S. S governments to clarify for for the Russian mind the mind the spirit and letter of the pact we signed were generally without avaiL Neither country was In a mood to speak bluntly to Russia though Russia now in full retreat before the German forces might have been attentive It was in sore need of allied aid No Frontier Guarantees But the best we could get out of ot Washington was Welles' Welles statement statement state state- ment that it was the understanding understanding understanding understand ing of the U. U S. S that the Polish Polish- Soviet pact meant that our country's country's country's coun coun- try's old borders borden would be re reestablished reestablished reestablished re- re established after the war Eden said in commons There is r rno no guarantee of frontiers In Moscow a S representative o othe of the American Red Cross was rebuffed rebuffed rebuffed re re- re- re buffed three times when he hc sought sough permission to send food tood clothing and medical supplies to the Poles in Russia The Soviet authorities i plainly regarded the Red Cross Crossas as a foreign agent secretly bent ben upon spying and meddling in th the domestic affairs affair of the U US USSR S S SR R Copyright 1948 By King Feature Syndicate Read the seventh installment of this amazing stor story in Saturdays Saturday's Saturdays Saturday's Saturdays Saturday's Satur Satur- days day's Salt Lake Telegram The Coming Russian lan Terror runs In th tho Telegram on weekdays and In The Salt Lake Tribune on Sundays |