WHO WAS BEHIND RUSSIAN GENERAL’S POLISH APPOINTMENT?
LONDON, Nov 8 (Recd 8 pm).— “The Times’ ” Berlin correspondent says it is doubted by some observers whether the initiative for Marshal Rokossovsky’s appointment as Polish I Defence Minister, with the duty of reorganisation the Polish army, came from the Polish Government, as was stated in the Soviet official announcement. Instead, it is suggested that the strengthening of the Polish Army reflects a Soviet desire to seek the western security of Russia in Poland | rat her than in Germany. For the I Poles this would represent a more cf- ! fective guarantee of permanence of 'the Oder-Neisse line as their Western frontier than the constantly reiterated pledges of the New East-German Republic. For the Germans it would imply that the eastern republic had been assigned a much more modest ; role in Soviet policy than had been ex- ! peeled a month ago.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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