AMERICA AND POLAND

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1947, Page 7

AMERICA AND POLAND

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS RETAINED CONCERN EXPRESSED ONLY (Rec. 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. President Truman personally told the new Polish Ambassador, Mr Josef Winiewicz, that the Polish Government had failed to fulfil its pledge to hold free national elections. Mr Truman, however, received the envoy and accepted him as the “Ambassador of the Republic of Poland.” This apparently ended the speculation that the United States might break diplomatic relations with Poland as a result of the manner in which the elections were held. Mr Truman said: “It is a cause of deep concern to me and the American people that the Polish Provisional Government has failed to fulfil its pledge. The United States Government has not lost interest in the Polish people’s welfare. It is with this in. mind that I offer to you the cooperation of the officials of this Government?’ The Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr J. T. Mayhew, in a written reply in the House of Commons, said the British Embassy in Warsaw had been i instructed to make it widely known in Poland that the British Government gave no support whatever to underground movements hostile to the Polish Provisional Government. The Associated Press Warsaw correspondent reports that neither the British nor American Ambassadors and their staffs attended the opening of the new Polish Parliament to-day.