Evening star., 1939-10-04
fugitive Warsaw Diplomat
Sees Sparks of Revolution
New Consul General
Says Soviet May
Reup WhirIwind

The fruit of Russia'st territorial
gain in Poland may be revolution in
Russia, Victor Podoski, Polish off,
cial who was in Warsaw during the
first seven days of the war, suggested
here yesterday. Mr.. Podoski, staying
at the Polish Embassy, will leave to-
morrow for Ottawa, Canada, where
he will be Consul General for the
"liquidated" nation. Until he left
Poland on September 13 he had
been eight years chief of the Anglo
American division of the Polish
foreign Office.
Mr.. Podoski's interesting thought
which he granted was only specula-
ton on his part-rested on the
possibility that the Polish White
Russians and the Polish Ukrainians
recently incorporated within Soviet
territory might touch off the spark
of the urge to freedom which
the White Russians and the Ukrai-
mans in Russia have long held. He
thought that for the present, how
ever, the people newly admitted to
the Soviet state would be diverted
by the operation of the Soviet exper-
iment on their own lives.
Left Warsaw September 7.
Mr.. 'Podoski granted an interview
at the Polish Embassy, where he was
first secretary before he went to
work in the foreign Office. He was
in Warsaw from September l to
September T. Then, with the other
men in the foreign Office. he moved
by bus for safety to Krzemieniec,
where he stayed six days, before he
departed for Rumania, which he
entered through the now famous
town of Cernauti.
The most impressive thing about
Rumania, Mr.. Podoski found, was
the absence of bombs. For 13 days
he had been hearing the screech of
deadly German airplanes, dropping
their death. There was much indis-
criminate bombing of military
objectives, he said
1T was impossible to work. The
bombs made it impossible to go on
about the job he said in explaining
the government officials departure
from the war zone. ct was very
strange feeling to get into a place
where there were no bombs drop
ping"
From Cernauti he went to Bucha-
rest, and thence by Simplon ex-
press to Trieste. He sailed from
that port on September l8 on the
Italian steamer Vulcania, which ar
rived in New York Monday.
Mr. Podoski's chief duty in Canada
will be encouraging Polish military
service on the western front and or
ganizing Polish relief.
For the Polish civilian popula-
tion," he said, there must now be
fought second war-against
hunger and disease. We have
made the supreme sacrifice We de-
Tended our country against invasion.
Now thousands of people remaining
in Poland will starve unless they are
provided for. They need food,
clothes, blankets, medicines
Flee Without Clothing.
Countless Poles, he said. were evac-
uated from the western to the east
ern part of their country before the
German drive, fleeing their homes
without their clothing, with none Of
their possessions Since Canada has
no war on it's own territory, he said.
he thinks that Canada will be ready
to join in the relief of the Poles
over whose terrain war was fought.
The Counsul General holds that
the Polish spirit is indomitable. He
expects no guerrilla warfare. but he
expects no death of the Polish spirit.
He said the vast majority of Poles
would agree to no peace providing
for a buffer state between new Ger
man and Russian territory that
once was Polish.
We've lost SO much already" Mr..
Podoski said, that we have nothing
more to lose. But we have every
thing to gain if the war goes on"