REPATRIATION OF POLES
ISSUE BEFORE ALLIED CONTROL COUNCIL (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 8. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says the Allied Control Council is discussing Polish allegations that the British authorities in Germany are actively preventing the return to Poland of about 100,000 Poles in Westphalia Many of them are miners, and the Polish case is that not only are they needed for reconstruction work in Poland, but they themselves wish to return to Poland. The Brjtish case is that about 99 per cent, of the population in question, the descendants of Poles who drifted into western Germany in the second half of the last century and the first decade of this century, are German nationals, and at the moment they are subject to the same restrictions on emigration as other German citizens. The Polish need for manpower is not disputed, but it had been hoped that an arrangement would be reached whereby Germans of Polish, origin from Westphalia would be exchanged for German miners still working in the Silesian mines.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25310, 9 October 1947, Page 7
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