FUTURE OF POLAND

Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 3

FUTURE OF POLAND

PATRIOTS OUTLINE PROGRAMME LONDON GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED (Rec. S a.m.) LONDON, January (i. 'Wolua Polska,' the organ of the Union of Polish Patriots in Russia, has published an important statement outlining a programme for the future of Poland, reports the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press. The main points are: First, the extension of Poland's strategic borders to the west as protection against the Prussians: secondly, the Western Ukraine and Byelo-Russia are to be part of the Soviet' Union • thirdly, a parliamentary democratic regime must be 6et up: fourthly, all reactionary elements must be wiped out and land must be distributed to the peasants; fifthly, all Poles must unite, regardless of political creeds, with the exception of the reactionary emigre elements abroad. The' paper adds that 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, also for effecting changes in Poland itself, must be in the hands of Poles themselves. The socalled London Government is incapable of showing initiative and wise action.It has condemned itself to political suicide and has carried out the sentence itself.