FULL AGREEMENT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 5

FULL AGREEMENT

POLES AND SOVIET

Government Of National Unity To Be Set Up N.Z.P.A. and British Wireless Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, June 22. The Polish delegates in Moscow have reached complete agreement oft the foundation of a Polish Government of national unity, states a communique from Moscow, which has just reached London. The Polish Prime Minister. M. Arcizewski, has declared that the Polish Government in London could not recognise the legality of the Moscow trial and the condemnation of the Polish underground organisation. An appeal would be made to President Truman and Mr. Churchill, but the form of the appeal could not be disclosed.

"The charges against the sixteen members of the. underground movement were too fantastic to be refuted in detail now. but this will be done in due course." he said. "The most monstrous of these charges was the allegation of connivance with the Germans. Neither the Polish Government in London nor its executive in Poland has ever issued anti-Soviet instructions. ■...

"On the contrary, ever since Germany attacked Russia the Polish Government has regarded the Soviet as an ally in the common struggle, and has given all possible assistance. Those tried in Moscow have, never been anti-Soviet."

The trial was an attempt to discredit the legal Polish Government by slanderous allegations, he declared. The London Government regarded General Leopold Okulicki, Comniander-in-Chief of the Polish Home Army, now disbanded, as a loyal Polish citizen, but the methods hitherto employed at Russian trials have proved that the depositions could not be compared with the statements made in a free court.

M. Arcizewski said that all communications between the Polish Government in London and Poland went through the British censorship.