POLAND AND SOVIET

Grey River Argus, 11 August 1944, Page 2

POLAND AND SOVIET

WELLINGTON, August 1. Th e Polish Consul-General, Professor K. Wodzicki, has received a cablegram from the Polish Telegrapn Agency," London, concerning the Polish Committee of National Liberation, established by -the Soviet authorities inf Chelm on July 22. “Out of the 15 committee members,” says the cablegram, "nine are Communists, of whom three at least are Soviet citizens, and the six not belonging to the Communists either have a rather dark past or were forced to join the committee. The majority of the names are unknown in Poland and do not represent any political ideology followed by a substantial section of the Polish people. “The members of the committee include A. B. Osupka (pseudonym Morawski), "who is president of tne committee and in charge of foreign affairs. Before the war he was a member of the Polish Socialist Party, and during the war joined a group of that party called Workers’ Party of Polish Socialists, who were publishing the underground paper "Robotnik.” When his efforts to subordinate that party to the Communists failed ne joined the Communist Party known as P.P.R. in December, 1943, and started publishing a fake paper under the same name, "Robotnik,” in order ro create the impression that the Socialists (whose paper is well-known in Poland), had joined the Communist Party. The Communists elected him head of the so-called National Council in Poland. With some other Communists, he went to Moscow, where they joined the Committee of National Liberation.”