NEW POLISH FRONT

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 4

NEW POLISH FRONT

Advice Received By Consul (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 18. The announcement of a new Polish United Front is contained in cable advice received from London by the Polish Consul-General In Wellington. The message states:— The Polish National Democrat Party, which recently resigned from the Government for the reason that its members were opposed to the signing of the Polish-Russian Agreement, now fully realises the implications of this Agreement and has decided to withdraw its resignation and re-enter the National Government in London. Two members belonging to this Party are M. Seyds and Professor T. Komarnicki, the recently appointed Ministers of Reconstruction and Justice respectively. At the same time M. Kwapinski, one of the leaders of the Polish Socialists, who was deported and until recently imprisoned in Russia, was also appointed an additional member of the Polish Cabinet. Simultaneously a President of Poland was appointed (owing to the fact that elections cannot take place in occupied Poland), on the broadest democratic basis by the new National Council which will replace the Polish Parliament and which comprises representatives of exiled Poles in London and Russia. Tfiis Council consists of five members of each of the four parties, namely, National Democratic, Labour, Socialistic and Peasants, and nine independent representatives. Professor S. T. Grabski, a previous civilian prisoner in Russia, was elected chairman. The new National Council will lay the foundations for the future democratic organisation of Poland in connection with the prospective union of Czechoslovakia and Poland.