Evening star., 1940-02-03
Communism Feared
In Polish Region
Under German Rule
Possibility Of Nozi
Defeat Envisoged
By InteIIectuoIs
y the Associated Press.

Oy buNSuSS~A0AIS
~ the Associated Press.
Among many fears that plague
the people of conquered Poland is
the dread that Communism yet may
ingulf the country already under
German rule.
In the intellectual classes the fear
of that contingency is even more
pronounced than aversion to Ger
man rule. The average intellectual
Pole, whether on the basis of foreign
radio reports or because of wishful
thinking, does not share German
confidence in Teutonic victory. He
envisages the possibility OF German
defeat and in such case he sees
Germany abandoning Poland to her
fate.
Another cause for anxiety to the
Poles is the increasing influx Of CO.
nationls from areas permanently
annexed to Germany. 1t is feared
that of the 100000 Poles inhabiting
the west at least 100000 will be
transported to the Governor s Area"
that part of Poland which Adolf
Hitler intends to set up as Polish
state under German domination, but
has not yet annexed to the Reich.
If Germany should abandon Po-
land completely, the intellectuals
fear, Communist Russian invasion
would follow These Poles see the
Soviets as a most active and pre-
ponderant factor in Europe. Soviet
propaganda is unceasing and the
sufferings of the Polish people make
them easy victims to propaganda.
Active in Three Directions.
In the eyes of the Polish intel
lectuals Russia is especially active
in three Notwithstanding India
away from the British Empire, prop
agating the pan-Slavic ideal in the
Balkans and among Slavic people
and twisting the British lions tail
in general.
Meantime the region within which
Germany seems prepared to estab-
lish some sort of Polish vassal state
is becoming more and more crowded
with Poles who have been compelled
to leave sections annexed to greater
Germany. This crowding. the Poles
say, further nourishes Communist
feelings.
The governors area" seems
pretty definitely fixed.
For one thing, the coal basin of
Dombrowa has been annexed by
the Reich and will not be included
in the Poland of the future as con-
templated by Germany. In the
west, the frontier is to pass about
one mile to the west of Czestochawa.
In other words, while the concession
to Polish religious feelings is being
made by leaving to Poland the town
which harbors the working
black Madonna" yet the border Of
Germany is right up to that city.
From Czestochawa the border
line goes about four miles south
ward, passing through Olkusz and
east of Trzebinia. This means that
the entire industrial area of Cracow
including Wadowice, Skawina and
Chrzanow is claimed by the Reich.
Area to Have No Coal.
The governors area" thus will
have no coal, only very little timber
around the Kielce district. and, al
though essentially agrarian, will not
be sufficiently productive to make
it self-supporting as regards farm
products. 1t will have only an i'm
portant war industry around San
domierz (Which will of course, have
to produce for German needs or as
Germany directs and never for a
potential enemy of Germany, and
the foundries of Ostrowiec near
Radon.
Generally speaking. Polish econo-
mists believe that only one-third
of the requirements of the gov
ernor's area" will be satisfied by
the area itself.
AS to the manner in which the
"governor's area" is to obtain the
missing two-thirds, reports persist
that the exchange of goods between
the Reich and the area will take
place on the basis of compensation.
That compensation" necessarily
must be Polish labor for German
goods, for the governors area" will
have nothing except munitions to
export. Seen through Polish eyes,
this means the Poles will be under
German masters.
10000 Registered as Jobless.
Only 10000 men have registered
as unemployed Everybody knows
the number necessarily must be
greater. If men fail to register it
may be because they fear they may
be ordered to go to work in Ger
many.
The number registered as unem-
ployed is expected to increase as
the reserves with which Warsaw
was stocked when the war broke
out become exhausted. Apparently
no effort at rationing existing
supplies is being made. Fine pastry,
for instance, still continues to be
sold There is no compulsion, such
as obtains in Germany, to mix
husks with the -four.