Show U washington logton D 0 LANOE LANGE TALKS WITH STALIN two of the most important diplomatic reports of the war have been received at the white house recently not from rom any trained diplomats but from rom tw two private american citizens eizens father of at springfield mass and prof oscar lange polish american leader and a teacher at the university of chicago both of 0 whom had interviews with stalin although less widely publicized that than father skis interview professor lange had a long separate talk with marshal stalin and per haps because he wa was s not circumscribed by church superiors his report on the whole has been the more penetrating and helpful new conclusion drawn from the lange reports Is that polish russian relations one of the most troublesome problems atthe of the war are arc on the eve of a wholesome rapprochement probably beginning about now it was shortly after the receipt of the lange reports that president roosevelt began a series of three con conferences ferencis with polish premier in washington the results of which exceeded expectations if polish russian relations can resettled be settled amicably one of the worst obstacles obstacle 8 to 0 o postwar peace will be removed moved por per land Jand jor for a hundred y years ears partially governed by russia has ban a deep rooted boated suspicion of the 8 soviet 0 VI el 1 while ile the russians having baving ath 1 1 b borne the main brunt of the european war war on land naturally feel they are entitled to areas forcibly wrested away from them after the last war STALIN DISCUSSES POLISH boundaries in their separate interviews with stalin the two polish amer americans beans father and professor lange heard the reassuring words from the strong man of russia thit that his government wants amstrong aI a strong independent poland after the wara war a poland which will be strong both internally and externally but which will be favorably disposed to the soviet union stalin went even further and said that he was ready to help creates create a new polish army 1 I am ready to build an army tor for poland equip it fully and arm it with with the best guns the soviet union can make he told professor lange 1 I will do this tor for at least men men stalin also discussed the question of polands bolands Po lands future boundaries and revealed repealed that they had already been discussed in some detail at teheran in doing so he be let drop avery a very important point that at teheran roosevelt andee and he had agreed to the breakup of germany after the war poland should claim east prussia 11 stalin said sald Jand and should also claim upper silesia and all the german territory up to the oder river including stettin NOTE this would give poland practically all of pom crania a great stronghold of prussian militarism shortly after teheran this columnist reported that the big I 1 three had i proposed giving I 1 er a nia la east prussia and silesia to poland in order to separate the be prussian junkers from th the rest of germany and stamp out german militarism for keeps stalin told his visitors that he was not sure whether poland should get breslau in silesia or not when these plans tor for poland had come up up at teheran stalin disclosed president roosevelt had ad been in complete agreement but prime minister churchill had bad best cited he asked me who is to guarantee the security of this new polish state I 1 answered him simply the armed might of the soviet union POLES IN RUSSIA professor lange had been permitted to visit with the polish army inside russia which is fighting side by side with the red army he also had talked with var various lotis polish leaders inside russia and he be told stalin that he was deeply moved by the splendid treatment given the po ush army by the red army Sever several aldays day after professor langi lange had arranged with winds wanda head bead of the pro soviet union of polish patriots t better the be living conditions of Foll gh sh refugees refugee in russia stalin I 1 it informed mane that better war conditions now BOW permitted better living condition and that polish refugees bogold share la in the be went nent IMOR SCORES Elii POLISH 0 L intelligence SERVICE stalin was wai about the polish intelligence service inside pola poland nd and the reports report of alleged conditions it had bad made to ta Prein premier ler all it did he be saida said I 1 was deceive the polish government in exile in london foreign ign commissar who was P resent present during the int interview ervie interrupted at this poi point nt to say that in a recent speech premier miko laiczyk had claimed he had the sup port of 80 90 per cent ot of the polish people |