POLES IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5

POLES IN RUSSIA

PROGRAMME FOR FUTURE

LONDON, January 6. The journal "Wolna Polska," organ of the Union of Polish Patriots in Russia, has published an important statement outlining a programme for the future Poland, reports the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press.

The main points are:— (1) The extension of Poland's strategic borders westward must be carried out as a protection against the Prussians.

(2) The western Ukraine and Byelorussia are part of the Soviet Union. (3) A parliamentary democratic regime must be set up. (4) All reactionary elements must be wiped out and their land must be distributed to the peasants. (5) All Poles must unite, regardless of their political creeds, with the exception of reactionary emigre elements abroad.

The paper adds: "The time has come for the Polish Government in London to come down to earth and give way to a new political line-up, as the Yugoslav Government has done. The initiative for changing Poland's position in the world and also in Poland itself must be in the hands of the Poles themselves.

"The so-called London Government is incapable of showing the initiative in wise action. It has condemned itself to political suicide and has carried out the sentence on itself."