POLISH PROBLEM

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23181, 20 April 1945, Page 5

POLISH PROBLEM

Conference In Washington (7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Apr. 13. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Moscow, will go to America to take part in the conference at Washington between M. Molotov (Soviet Foreign Commissar), Mr Edward Stettinius (U.S. Secretary' of State) and Mr Anthony Eden (British Foreign Minister) who are meeting there to find a solution to the RussoPolish deadlock. Sir Archibald has been British representative on the commission of three set up by the Crimea Conference to conduct negotiations for the formation of a new Polish Government on a broader basis. The other members of that commission are Mr A. Harriman, United States Ambassador to Moscow, and M. Molotov. It is understood that Mr Harriman will also go to Washington so that the three foreign secretaries will have the benefit of the ambassador's experience and wide knowledge on all matters involved in trying to reach a solution that would enable Poland to be represented at San Francisco. Mr Richard Law. Minister of State, answering questions on Poland in the House of Commons on behalf of the Foreign Secretary, made a statement about the reported direct Russo-Polish negotiations. Commander R. T. Bower (Conservative) had asked if in the course of the discussions culminating in the Yalta agreement'a procedure was contemplated such as that now being followed in the negotiations initiated on March 15 between the vice-Premier of the Polish Government in London, the Polish underground leaders and the representatives of the U.S.S.R. Mr Law replied: "No sir. But the main aim of the Crimea declaration on Poland was the establishment of a new Polish provisional government of national unity by the reorganisation of i the present provisioal government on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of the democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad. Although the Crimea declaration did not contemplate discussions of the character described by Commander Bower, there is no reason win they should be ruled out. if they contributed to achieving the main aim of the Crimea declaration.