POLES IN ITALY
COMMANDER’S STATEMENT NO SYMPATHY WITH COMMUNISM LONDON. Feb. 17. “We fought for a free Poland, and we have not got a free Poland,” said General Anders, interviewed by the Associated Press Rome correspondent. General Anders admitted that his Polish Army of 107.000 strong was at present stationed along 900 miles of the Italian coast from Taranto to Udine. He declined to comment on the Jugoslav charges that the activities of his army were aggressive and ostensibly threatening. He said: “My troops are not in sympathy with Communism, because they have seen it.” He added that he could not guarantee the safety of the Polish Ambassador, M. Stanislav Kot, or any other representative of the Polish Government should they ask to inspect his troops. “We remember Kot irom his Russian days,” said General Anders. He declared that the statement by the Polish Government’s Military Attache in Rome that Polish troops who
asked to return to Poland were risking imprisonment in Italy, and that some had disappeared, was completely without foundation. His troops had been warned that they would be severely punished for any clashes they provoked. “The peace settlement will decide the ultimate disposal of my army,” he concluded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26081, 19 February 1946, Page 5
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