LUBLIN COMMITTEE
OPPOSED BY POLISH AMERICANS VIEWS ON RUSSIAN AIMS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 5. The Polish Consul-general in New Zealand, Count Wodzicki, has received a copy of the following statement issued in New York by Mr Charles Rozrparek, president of the Polish American. 1 Congress:— “ There is only one legal Polish Government recognised as such by the Allied Nations, with the exception • of Russia. The Polish Government in London has the solid backing of the army, navy, air force and the Polish underground forces. The Poles under Russian occupation are not free to express their choice of Government, and neither are the Polish soldiers under Russian command. The families of the soldiers are kept in enforced captivity in Siberia, and with them it is a case of do or die.
“ The Lublin Committee is a Russian agency created by Russia for Russia’s sole benefit. By imposing a Government of Red quislings upon the Polish people Russia is denying the Poles, our allies, the right to shape their future. Six million Polish Americans recognise the Polish Government in London as the only legal mouthpiece of the Polish people/’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25736, 6 January 1945, Page 6
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