Evening star., 1939-09-15
Berlin Interest Shifts
To Kind Of Peace
Terms 10 Be Imposed
Victors Likely to Demand
More Territory Than
They Ever Held
Nv WALLACE r. DEUEL.,

By WALLACE X. DEUEL.,
Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent
BERLIN, Sept. 15.-With the back
bone of the Polish Army apparently
broken and Poland we'll on its way
to complete subjugation, interest
here in the Eastern front shifted
today from military to political
questions and the problem of what
kind of peace terms the Reich will
dictate to the Poles-subject to the
outcome of the war on the Western
front.
Amid a welter of conflicting re-
ports and opinions, two points
seemed to emerge today as likely to
characterize Nazi plans for the
future of Poland. One of these
points is the virtual certainty of a
complete redrawing of the frontiers
between Poland and its neighbors.
The other is the likelihood that
after, and perhaps, even before these
new frontiers are definitely drawn,
there will be mass transfers OF
hundreds of thousands and possibly
millions of human beings from one
part of Poland to another in ac-
cordance with the new frontiers.
Piece of Poland May Survive.
Just how the new frontiers are
drawn will depend partly on the
outcome of negotiations now under
way between Germany and Russia
and Lithuania One thing seems
reasonably clear, however - the
Reich will annex at least as much
of Poland as belonged to Germany
before the last war and possibly
a good deal more than that. 1t also
seems likely that some kind of a
rump Poland will be left, with be-
tween $4,000, 900 and 20O0O,000 Polish
inhabitants, but clearly subject to
German hegemony.
What will become of the rest of
Poland is less clear. Lithuania is
pressing for the return of the Wilma
territory, but the Soviets seem to
have raised objection to this. The
Soviets also appear to be definitely
opposed to the setting up of
Ukrainian state which would be
liable to become the center for
Ukrdlnlan natlOnanSm.
But, however Poland's new from
tiers with its Eastern neighbors are
drawn, it is as certain as anything
can be that its frontiers with Ger
many will be drawn in such way as
formally to return to the Reich
Danzig, the Corridor, Eastern Upper
Silesia, and probably generous slices
of further Polish territory as well.
Special liberties and guarantees for
Germans left in the new rump Po-
land will also be insisted upon.
Mass Eviction of Poles.
And once these new frontiers with
the Reich have been drawn mass
repatriation and colonization of
Germans in the newly reacquired
territories may be expected. The
Nazis claim that at least 100000
Germans were forced out of the Cor
ridor and Eastern Upper Silesia be-
tween 1918 and 1899. They also as
sert that hundreds of thousands of
Poles moved into these provinces, re-
placing the Germans. This tide OF
migration will now be reversed, al
ways assuming that the Germans
have their way.
Poles accused of having acquired
holdings in these regions at the
expense of the Germans or as
result of ABUSES of power" by the
Polish authorities will be evicted and
sent into the new rump Poland.
Their holdings will be appropriated
on the grounds that they were un-
fairly acquired. There will be a
colossal restoration of German
rights" all along the line. And hum
dreds of thousands of Germans will
be settled in the newly reacquired
territories as colonists.
Polish Jews will be the first to feel
the effects of this revolution in East
ern Europe. Jews own much of the
real estate and control much of the
business in Poland They will be ex-
propriated first of all and most COM
pletely of all.
100000 Jews Affected.
The Jews of Poland have, in fact,
already begun to feel the full brunt
of the Nazi invasion even more vio-
lently than other Poles all over the
areas now in control of German
troops and Gestapo. The German
invasion has already destroyed the
Jewish property classes by the devas-
tation of much of their property. The
Jews themselves have been rounded
up and put to work in road gangs
and other forced labor schemes.
There are approximately 100000
Jews in Poland altogether, and the
Nazis want none of them in the ter
ritories which the Reich takes over.
Jews in these territories will un-
doubtedly be shipped out. Jews in
the rest of Poland may fare little, II
any better.
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