NEW POLISH CABINET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25280, 17 July 1943, Page 5

NEW POLISH CABINET

THOROUGHLY DEMOCRATIC LONDON, “July 15. 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 Peasant Party members, three Socialists, two Labour members, two Nationalists, and three non-party members. Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent says Polish official qu'arters state that, the appointment of M. Tadeusz Romer, formerly Ambassador in Moscow, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicates that the new Government will do its utmost to seek a friendly settlement of Russo-Polish relations in conformity with the preservation of Polish interests. M. Romer succeeds Count Raczynski, who remains Polish Ambassador in London. The position is one in which he will be able to render valuable service as liaison officer. Dr Ludwik Grosfeld, a Jewish Socialist, is the new Finance Minister, which speaks for the liberal basis on which the Cabinet is' 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 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 are Father Zygmunt Kaczynski (Minister of Education) and M. Wladyslaw Banaczyk (Minister of Home Affairs).