Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14

re-establishment of this publiolaw and the
consignment of its vlolators 70 oblivion.
AS a person we are able TO be indie
pendent Of the wiles of others if we will.
We have now the war power and
resources 10 make our own policies in
huental. The greatest responsibility the
American people now have is to use their
independence TO help right purposes to
prevail.
WHAT have said particularly applies
w to Soviet Russia l am ready TO
testify TO my personal admiration and
regard for the Russian people. 1t is fire.
quently affirmed that one cannot dis
tinguish a people and its government, but
in the case of Russia we can, because for
nearly "a years the Russian people have
had no part in the government of Russia.
That government has been Dictator
ship Of a party which is very small COM
pared to the millions of the nation. 1t is
perfectly logical to express respect for the
Russian people and hold distrust of the
acts of the Russian government.
The obligation the responsibility
rests not on us but upon the Soviet
government to demonstrate that we may
have confidence in it. for its record in this
war must be recalled. Not TO keep it in
mind, not to refer to IT, is to destroy our
own defense against Soviet government
propaganda.
\YIHEN in Sept. 1889, Hitler and Stain
Wv made an alliance, this alliance freed
Hitler from fear of Russian opposition to
his conquest of Poland
Wa lyooW pouy hot in thic alliopco
there was a secret understanding by which
Poland was to be divided between Germany
and Russia, and Russia was also 10 be
allowed TO absorb the Baltic Republics and
Finland If anybody believes these are
not the facts, let him show what the facts
were.
WITH this alliance consummated, Hit
w Ter without declaration of war and
by surprise tactics, assaulted Poland on
the first day Of Sept, 1889
At the height of the struggle when
the Polish armies were forced back behind
the Nistula, Russian armies directed by
Stain, invaded Poland
One came north of the Pinsk marshes
the other invaded to the south They made
it impossible for Poland to continue armed
resistance.
Her government fed, her badly-bat-
tered armies were forced to surrender.
Only the city of Warsaw stood out in
violent resistance for good many days
under the leadership of heroic mayor
whom the Germans subsequently executed
for leading the defense.
Soviet Russia then declared the
formal annexation Of all eastern Poland,
and, according to reliable reports. COM
menced the transfer Of elements Of the
Polish population.
The Germans. by invading Poland in
1911. are now in possession of all the
territory which Russia proclaimed annexed,
and great deal of Russia itself.
A MERICA, like England, appreciates
a the persistent defense which the
Russian people and the Russian armies
have made. Their object in this war is
not only to defeat Germany but to aid in
restoring the Russian people to their own
territory.
The western line Of that territory is
legally the front agreed upon by Russia
and Poland and solemnized in the treaty
Of 1920.
But Soviet Russia now demands that
we support the denunCiation Of that and
recognize her own title to the conquests
of 1899.
No one has yet successfully explained
why these demands are right, nor why the
American government should accept them
nor why the American government should
continue to aid Russia in fighting this
war in order that she can regain what
violently and illegally she claims to have
acquired.