BRITAIN WANTS TO SEND STANLEY OUT OF COUNTRY TO POLAND

Wanganui Chronicle, 5 February 1949, Page 5

BRITAIN WANTS TO SEND STANLEY OUT OF COUNTRY TO POLAND

LONDON, Feb 4 ‘Recd 6 pm).—The British authorities are being asked to recognise Sidney Stanley, one of the principal figures in inquiry, as a Polish citizen. Mr. Attlee said that the Home Secretary <Mr. Chuter Ede) was satisfied from information about Stanley’s; activities that it would be conducive i to the public good that he should; leave the country. Mr. Attlee pointed; out that a deportation order had been made against Stanley in 1933 (a Polish Foreign Office official said two days ago that Poland would not accept Stanley if a deportation order was enforced). Poland will delay giving any official answer to the British Government’s approach about the deportation of Stanley until the question is

fully examined, The “Daily Mail’s” Stockholm correspondent says the Polish Foreign Office spokesman told him this over the telephone from Warsaw. During the debate on the Lynskey , Tribunal report the Earl of WinterI ton suggested Stanley should be I dropped by parachute over Warsaw. I “Perhaps that might be rather drastic —personally I should prefer to see him dropped over the Kremlin,” he said. Stanley commenting on Mr. Attlee’s statement in the House of Commons said: “If I was sent to Poland they would shoot me. I would take my wife and daughter with me and then they could shoot them as well.” Stanley sympathised with Mr. Bel-