POLISH COMMITTEE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 260, 31 July 1944, Page 5

POLISH COMMITTEE

Criticism Of Members’ Records The Polish Consul-General, Count Wodzicki, has received the following cablegram from the Polish Telegraph Agency,. London : “The Polish Committee of National Liberation,” which was established by the Soviet authorities in Checlm on July 22 proves by its com.position that there was not to be found among the Poles one name of more importance, attraction and political independence. Out of the 15 members ol the committee nine are Communists (of those three at least are Soviet citizens). The six not belonging ,to the Communists either have u rather dark past or were forced to join the committee. '■The majority of the names are unknown in Poland and do not represent any political ideology followed by a substantial section of the Polish people. Most of the better-known names arc likely to deter. “The members of the committee include A. B. Osupka (pseudonym Morawski), who is president of the committee and in ’charge of foreign affairs. Before the war he was a member of the Polish Socialist Party, and during the war he joined a group of that party called the Workers’ Party of Polish Socialists, who were publishing the underground paper ‘Robotnik.’ When his efforts to subordinate that party to the Communists failed be joined tlie Communist Party, known as the P.P.R. last December and started publishing a fake paper under the name, ■Robotnik,’ in order to create the impression that the Socialists (whose paper is well known in Poland) had joined the Communist Party. “Tho Communists elected him head ot the so-called ‘National Council’ in Poland. Wilh some other Communists he went to Moscow, where they joined the Committee of National Liberation. Moscow Soviet Member. “The first vice-president of the committee and iu charge of agrarian reforms is A. Wiltos. til! now vice-president ol the ‘Union of Polish Patriots' in Moscow. Long before the war the Polish Peasant Party, of which he was a member, expelled him. The second vice-pre-sident is Wanda Wasilewska-Kormeje-zuk, till now president of the ‘Union of Polish Patriots.’ In November, 1939, she accepted Soviet citizenship al, d .7 came a member of the Supreme Soviet in .Moscow, a post she still holds. “In charge of the war is General M. Zymicrski (pseudonym Rola). Long before the war, when chief of the ordnance department in the Polish Ministry ot Defence, he was convicted of having been bribed by a French industrialist and sentenced to imprisonment and degradation. Rola, Bcrling and Zawadski form <i ‘committee of three’ for military affairs. Zawadski is a Soviet citizen of Polish descent, a former colonel of lhe Soviet. Frontier Guards and a member of the secret police. . “In charge of culture anil art is n. Rzymowski, who was n member of the Polish Academy of Literature hut was removed from tlie academy not long before the war for plagiarism of Bertrand Russell’s works. In charge of propaganda and information is S. Jcdryehowski, who is a member of lhe main Soviet of SovietLithuania. He was the most active member of the ‘Union of Polish Patriots’ in Moscow.”