UNSETTLED ISSUES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 January 1944, Page 5

UNSETTLED ISSUES

WEAKNESS IN ALLIED FRONT BRITISH PRESS COMMENT London, Jan. 5. The prospect that an increasing; area of Poland may in the near future pass into the occupation of the Red Army has directed fresh attention to the unsettled issues between the two governments, comments “The Times” in a leading article. Their dispute constitutes the one conspicuous gap in the continuous “United Nations’ political front, and so Img as it is not resolved it offers to the enemy one of the few consolations in his present bleak prospect. Omission to all references of the frontier question as such in the Polish declaration is conspicuous but by no means discouraging, adds “The Times.” It may ease the way for negotiation towards that settlement which alone can repair a serious weakness in the Allied front and at the same time establish n bastion of a permanent peace system to which the United Nations are pledged. RUSSIAN EMBASSY STATEMENT The Russian Embassy in Washington according to the British United Press issued a bulletin stating: “The Red Army has liberated workers in western Byelo Russia (White Russia) and the western Ukraine from the yoke of the Polish usurpers. The people of Byelo Russia themselves decided on the form of their state. The Supreme Soviet acceded to their request and accepted them into me U.S.S.R. The Red Army is now again Byelo Russia. The time is near when a tree Soviet Byelo Russia will again shine as a jewel in the brilliant cluster of the republics of the U.S.S.R ” TURKISH PRESS SUGGESTION Istanbul, Jan. 6. The semi-official Turkish newspaper “Aksam” makes suggestions that the German retreat to Poland was probably aim' at confronting the Allies with an acute Polish-Russian problem before opening the second front.