POLAND'S FUTURE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24956, 27 July 1944, Page 5

POLAND'S FUTURE

SOVIET STATEMENT RESTORATION OF FREEDOM LONDON. Jnly '25 The Soviet Government has made an official pronouncement of its attitude toward Poland. A Moscow broadcast stated: "The Red Army has successfully reached the frontier between the Soviet Union and Poland. In pursuit of the German troops, they have, together with the Polish Army in the Soviet Union, crossed the western Bug and the Polish frontier and have entered Polish territory. The hour of liberation has struck for Poland. Soviet's "One Desire" "The Soviet Government has only one determined desire, to rout the German troops and restore a democratic and strong Poland. The Soviet Government asserts that military operations will be carried on as on the territory of a friendly sovereign State, and, therefore, the Soviet Government will not organise or build up any organ of administration, but will leave this task to the Poles themselves. "Moreover, the Soviet Government has told the Polish National Committee of Liberation that the U.S.S.R. does not desire any territorial gains and does not seek a change in the social regime. The operations in Poland are dictated only by military necessity and have the aim of helping the Poles to get rid of the German invader. "Finally," the broadcast stated, "the Soviet Government is convinced" that the peoples of the Soviet Union and Poland will carry on the war to its conclusion and will lay the foundation of Soviet-Polish collaboration." Personnel of Committee This pronouncement by Moscow follows proclamations made on Sunday over the Moscow radio by a body known as the National Council for Poland, whose headquarters are in Warsaw, and by the newly-formed Polish Committee of National Liberation, which was set up at Chelin on Saturday. The committee is described as a provisional executive authority. Its chairman is M. Edward Morawski, and the vice-chairmen M. Andrzej Witos and Wanda Wassilewska. General Kola Zymiers is head of its Department of National Defence and General Berling is his deputy. Five of its members, who are naturally not named now, remain in occupied territory. The committee calls for close collaboration with the Red Army.

Wanda Wassilewska, one of the vicechairmen of the Polish National Committee of Liberation, is described in the International Who's Who as a Polish writer and politician, president of the Polish Patriots Union in Russia, and editor of the newspaper Free Poland. In private life she is Mme. Korneichuk, wife of Alexander Korneichuk, Soviet vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs. M. Korneichuk, who also is a writer, last year was awarded a Stalin Prize for his play "The Front." His wife was awarded a Stalin Prize for her work "Rainbow."

BRITISH ATTITUDE DESIRE FOR SOLUTION POLISH-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (Reed. 11.10 p.m.) LONDON. July 26 The Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden, told the House of Commons today that the British Government had not ceased to recognise the Polish Government in London now that a Polish Committee of National Liberation had been formed on Polish soil. This was a matter concerning th<> relations between two of Britain's Allies, said Mr Eden, and he assured the House that the Government was doing all it could to further an early solution of the problems between Russia and Poland. The Polish Cabinet in London will meet today and it is assumed that the Prime Minister will report on the talks he had with Mr Churchill and Mr Eden yesterday. A diplomatic correspondent says it is still hoped that the Polish Prime Minister will go to Moscow for discussions with Marshal Stalin. PUBLIC SCHOOLS SYSTEM REPORT OF COMMITTEE (Reed. 8.80 p.m.) LONDON, July 25 The report of the committee under the chairmanship of Lord Fleming, which considered the English public schools system, is published today. It recommends the admission to public schools of a substantial number of children from elementary schools. The committee says it believes that its proposals will create valuable educational opportunities which will eventually do much to secure a greater measure of social and educational unity in the nation. There are 188 public schools involved, some of them boarding schools and some day schools. The report submits two schemes. One is that the local education authorities would select children to go to the schools and either pay the whole cost or grade down the fees according to the parents' means. There would be no entrance examination. The second scheme concerns boarding schools only. The report recommends, to si art with, that one in every four bovs and girls in these schools should come from primary schools. Their parents could apply for special grants covering the whole cost, including travel at the beginning and end of the term. If these proposals are accepted many new boarding schools would be needed*