POLISH TOUR BY KHRUSHCHEV

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28950, 18 July 1959, Page 13

POLISH TOUR BY KHRUSHCHEV

Major Policy Speech Expected (N.Z Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) SZCZECIN (North-west Poland), July 17. The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr Khrushchev, due in Szczecin today on his 12-day goodwill visit to Poland, is expected to make a major speech on international relations. The Soviet leader is flying to the former German port of Stettin on the present Polish-German frontier, after his speech yesterday promising that Russia would never start a war. Addressing the International. Mineworkers’ Congress in Sosnowiec yesterday, on the third day of his visit, Mr Khrushchev said: “Brothers, we give you our solemn promise that never, never, never shall we launch any war against anybody.”

Later at Kotowice, Polish Silesia, he warned the West German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, that he had "apparently forgotten the lesson that we taught Hitler on the battlefields of Europe”— but the lesson could be repeated. Speaking at a mass meeting of 100,000 people, he said. “We can tell this to Adenauer ... If you try to raise your hand against the countries of the Socialist camp, we will break you. “The lovers of military adventures must be very careful—they have to reckon with the forces of socialism, which are stronger now than ever.” The Polish Communist chief. Mr Wladislaw Gomulka, also attacked Dr. Adenauer and compared President de Gaulle with a dog. Mr Gomulka said: “Dr. Adenauer strives to win France for his policies. President de Gaulle may be compared with a dog who barks loudly, but is nevertheless only a toothless dog.” Mr Gomulka repeated charges that West Germany had aggressive designs against the territories Poland gained in World War II and concluded: “Our reply is this: ’Your claws are not sharp enough.' ” “Interna! Struggles” In his speech, Mr Khrushchev made several references to the working classes of the non-Com-munist countries and their "internal struggle against capitalism. “I am sure that capitalist journalists will say that Khrushchev was calling on you to make an uprising,” he told' miners’ delegates from about 25 countries. “Not at all. But if a nation rises it will rise in the struggle for its interests. “I shall welcome that nation because it will fight for its own just cause, for its own interests, for the freedom of the workers, and for the freedom of utilising the results of work. What is more lofty than to fight against robbers?” Referring to his recent talks In Moscow with Mr Averell Harriman, the former Governor of New York, he said: “I told the American who came to visit me: You have no international continental ballistic missile. You have a missile which can throw an orange into the air, and we have a missile which can throw tons into space.’ “‘lmagine the size of a bomb which can be contained in your missile and in ours.’ . .