SIKORSKY REPLIES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 190, 8 May 1943, Page 5

SIKORSKY REPLIES

Declaration By Stalin (Received May 7, 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 0. Commenting on the written statement to the Moscow correspondent of “The Times,” in which M. Stalin reaffirmed the desire for a strong and independent Boland. and mentioned the Soviet’s willingness to enter into n post-war alliance with Poland for security against Germany. the Polish Prime Minister General Sikorski, said. “M. Stalin’s words correspond with the opinion which he expressed to me during my stay in Moscow in December, 1941. Indeed, the Germans have been for ages the common implacable enemy of the Poles and Russians. The Polish nation wants, of course, to continue friendly relations with Russia, nnd to base them on an alliance directed against Germany. “However, it is difficult for me not to be restrained, even in the face of such a favourable declaration by M. Stalin, nt the very moment when the Polish Ambassador has left Russia and masses of the Polish populations in Russia tire left without the care and assistance of their Government. Yet, in spite of this and in spite of many other facts, the Polish Government. is ready to find a positive answer to any Soviet initiative which will coincide with the interests of the Polish Republic as defined in our common declaration of December 12, 19-11, and my speech of May 5 last.”