Evening star., 1944-12-15
Churchill Abandons
ExiIed Poles, Backs
Soviet Area Demands
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without f1inching national annihila-
ton In the cause of freedom"
The House rang with cheers.
Concerning the Polish Russian
dispute Mr.. Churchill said:
Anything like a prolonged delay
in the settlement can only have
the effect of increasing the division
OF the Poles in Poland. I hope no
time will be lost in pressing these
discussions to a successful conclu-
sion.
He implied strongly that President
Roosevelt had agreed to this solution
of the Russian-PoliS problem.
THE President is aware of every
thing that was passed" he said, "as
well as what is in the minds both of
Russia and the British. *"* All /
can say is that I have received no
formal disagreement during all these
long months upon the way in which
the future of Poland seems to be
shaping itself, or is being shaped.
No doubt, when the time comes, the
United States will make their own
pronouncement upon these matters" +"
Calls Demands Reasonable.
"The liberation of Poland" Mr.
Churchill said, may presently be
achieved by the Russian Armies
after those armies have suffered mil
lions of casualties in breaking the
German military machine
II can not feel that the Russian
demands for reinsurance about her
Western frontiers goes beyond the
limit of what is reasonable or Just.
Marshal Stain and I also spoke and
agreed upon the need for Poland to
obtain compensation at the expense
of Germany both in the north and
in the west.
This was perhaps the first chief
of-state declaration that Germany
would be sliced up after victory
Our British principle" he said,
"has been enunciated that all terri
torial changes must await the con-
ference at the peace table after vic
tory has been won, but to that there
is an exception in principle. That
exception is changes mutually
agreed. That must not be for
gotten"
Of Poland's loss in land in the
east, he said fatty, This is a great
gift they have to give to Russia"
Il cannot believe such an offer
could ho roJnnfnI htr Dn1a,,Iv 1o
emphasized, adding that it would
have to b accompanied "by a dis
ENHANCEMENT of populations in the
west and the north and the transfer
of several millions of people from
the east to the west and north and
the total expulsion of the Ger
mans"
New Map of Central Europe.
Standing before a tensely atten-
tive House, Mr.. Churchill drew a |
new map of Central Europe
IF Poland gives Lwow and the
surrounding area on the south known
as the CurZon Line-if Poland makes
this concession and these lands are
joined to the Ukraine, Poland will
gain in the north all of East Prus-
Sla south and west of KoenigSberg,
including Danzig, one of the most
magnificent cities in the world, IA
nous for centuries and a great
gathering place for the trade of the
Baltic, and indeed, of the world"
He said that instead of the
threatened and artificial corridor
built up so laboriously after the last
war, Poland would stretch broadly
across the Baltic along 200 miles.
The Poles are free so far as Russia
and Britain are concerned to extend
their territory at the expense of
Germany to the west
He scoffed at opposition protests
made previously by Poles here that
plan along this line would mean
sacrifice of one-third of Poland.
That" he said, includes vast
tracts of the Pripyat Marshes, most
desolate region which, though it
swells the acreage, does not add to
the wealth of those who own it."
Closing the debate, Foreign Sec
retary Eden said that without a |
Polish-Russian understanding I'VE
find it difficult to see how there can
be any confident settlement and
peace in Eastern Europe when the |
war is over"
THE only thing about which we
agreed at the Moscow conference
about the future position" he said, |
was that Mr. Mikolajczyk should |
be Prime Minister. That was the |
one thing about which every one
seemed to be agreed-ourSelves, the !
Russians, the Lublin Committee and
the Polish government in London" +"
Mr.. Eden said he had not aban-
doned all hope of working out a So
luton of the problem, although ."I
must honestly say that the pros
poets at present are pretty bleak"
Draws Sharp Reaction.
Significantly, Mr.. Churchill's
speech drew a reaction sharply con-
trasting to that which followed his
address just week ago on Britains s
policy in Greece, Italy and Belgium.
This time, it was members of his
own Conservative party in Commons
who arose to criticize, and those
who lean to the left who gave him
support.
From Laborite Morgan Philips
Price came the assertion:
Some Poles live in the land
of make-believe. They still think
that Russia can be kept back as a
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