POLISH CABINET
REFORMED IN LONDON WIDEST REPRESENTATION RELATIONS WITH SOVIET (10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July la. M. Mikolajczyk has formed a new Polish Cabinet with M. Jan Kwapinski as deputy-Prime Minister. The new Cabinet, which is described in London as thoroughly democratic, comprises three representatives of the Peasant Party, three Socialists, two Labour members, two Nationalists and three non-party members.
Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent says that Polish official quarters state that the appointment of M. Tadeusz Romer. formerly Ambassador to Moasow, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicates that the new Government will do its utmost to seek a friendly settlement of Russo-Polish relationsin comformity with the preservation of Polish interests. M. Romer succeeds Count Raczynski, who remains Polish Ambassador in London, a position in which he is able to render valuable service as liaison officer.
Dr. Ludwik Grosfeld, the Jewish Socialist, is now Finance Minister, which speaks for the liberal basis on which the Cabinet has been formed Another feature is the appointment of a Minister—M. Henryk Strassburger—to the Middle East region, which is specially important to the Poles, because of the presence of the Polish Army there and also communities of Polish refugees in Persia, Iraq, Palestine, Africa, and India. The •only newcomers to the Cabinet, in addition to M. Romer and Dr. Grosfeld, arc Father Zygmunt Kaczynski, Minister of Education, and M. Wladyslaw Banaczyk, Minister of Home Affairs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21148, 16 July 1943, Page 3
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