Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Diplomats Here Deny
PoIe-Czech Plan for
German Alliance
DiseIuim Possibility q
Of Peace TuIks With
Soviet as Well

High diplomatic officials here to-
day categorically denied and de-
scribed as "misinformed and without
foundation" a report published last
week alleging that officials of the
Polish and Czecho-S lovak govern
ments-in-eXile in London are talk
ing in terms of alliance with
Germany or Russia, rather than the
restoration of their complete indie
pendence when the war is ended"
The article appeared in The Eve
ming Star under the by-line of Jay
G.. Hayden, and was based in part
on the Czecho-S lovak- Polish decla-
ration issued in London November
II to define mutual relationships
between these governments.
The Czecho-Slovak Legation de-
clined comment, indicating that
Minister vladimir Hurban, en- route
to New York for the week end
would issue a statement on arrival
in that city.
At the Polish Embassy, Jan Dro-
hojoWSki, counselor, described the
London declaration as IAN express
sion of our present cooperation in
the struggle against Hitler Germany,
and a close collaboration of both
countries after the war. AS for
Russia, remember, please, that Po-
land Still is at war with the Soviet
Union"
Approved by Britain.
The little-known London declar-
alton was accompanied by the ap-
prevail of the British government
and informed diplomatic sources
disclaim the possibility of reading
between the-lines a future program
of appeasement and peace-talks
with either Germany or the Soviet.
Primarily, it is held. the declaration
represents a factual understanding
and accord, and was not conceived
in terms of an extensive political
instrument. The single, governing
issue is one of amity, which does
anticipate that a large number of
small European countries will. after
the defeat of Nazism, adopt policy
Of solidarity
Between 1918 and 1898, it is known
that Czecho- Slovak- Polish relations
suffered as the result of general dis
order in European politics: The
policies of appeasement and constant
concessions which Signified lack OF
genuine pre-war agreement between
the major poWers-England and
France-and similarly accounted for
the strained relations between small
er European countries dependent
on the larger nations for assistance.
Deepened by Distrust.
Past disputes between Poland and
Czecho- Slovakia admittedly were
deepened by the general distrust
which at that time filled the whole
of Europe. Just as the Anglo
French Entente Cordiale disinte-
grated, so did the Baltic Entente.
the Little Entente and the Balkan
Entente. Under the pressure of
Nazi Germany these alliances were
not supported, unison was lost and
catastrophe resulted.
The London declaration, in brief,
leaves the analysis of the past to
historians, while the statesmen OF
both nations concern themselves
with the problems of the future. No
details were included, but Washing
ton diplomats summed up the true
significance of the London declara-
ton as follows: Cd A new Europe,
not Hitler's, but anti-Hitler; (2) not
regimented, but united for the tedi-
Gus constructive work of the future;
90 not totalitarian, but democratic.
This, then, is the meaning of the
common accord between Poland and
Czecho- Slovakia. Endorsed by the
British government, the concordat
resolves an amity of these govern
ments may possibly become the key
stone of a new order for the free
nations of Europe.