THE PLAN FOR POLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 14

THE PLAN FOR POLAND

The present Nazi attitude towards the Czechs is that they are artisans and small merchants anc farmers, and that they are to remain just those things Thus the closing of the institutions of higher learning in Prague for three years after the riots of November 17 is part of a policy to prevent the development of an intelligentsia which the Nazis think would be dangerous. Higher education -is not to be given to a vassal race. Many Czechs do not expect the institutions to reopen at all. The German Press indicates that in Poland an even more ruth-ess plan is being deliberately employed. The scheme is to divide the country into small sections and Germanise it (the Soviet apparently will carry out Russianising on its side of the border), the Polish nation is to be annihilated, such of it as survives will be reduced to a people without national' consciousness, and, in the absence of any local intelligentsia, without any hope of rising to its old position of independence. The process is now under way. Official statements say that the Reich must be "hard" on the Poles, and the reports of the last two or three days give ample. confirmation that the official statements reflect the true position. They also reveal how moderate the "iniquitous" Versailles Treaty will seem in the light of history since it was concluded.