The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-27

The White House has found that, very mysteriously, U. s. funds given to the Poles to aid the Rus- sians by anti-Nazi work in the Polish underground, have turned up instead in the U. s. A. and apparently are being used for propaganda against the Russians.
 The story dates back t0 the last Washington visit Of the late
 General Sik0Fski, Polish premier killed in a Mediterranean plane crash. Sik0FslEi told President Roosevelt that the Polish under ground needed aid. Roosevelt asked C money wOuld help.
 Sik0Fski replied that s20,000.000
 would go long way toward
 buying off GestapO guards and
 bFibing German officials in PO-
 land, FOR then agreed to give
 the Poles sl2,000, 900, provided
 t was Rll spent tD Poland,
 Arrangements were made to send the money in denominations of $50 and sl00 to London through the diplomatic pouch. and from there into Poland. However, Q short time after the transactions began, the Treasury Department reported large quantities of the bills turning up in American banks.
 The State Department immedi- ately asked the Polish embassy for an explanation of how this happened. Polish Ambassador Jan CieehanoWski informed Sec- retary Hull that, after SikOrsky left, the Poles decided that $50 and sl00 was too much to pay Gestapo men, so had changed the bills into smaller denominations, EXPANSION OF PR0PAGANDA
 This explanation satisfied of ficials until the Poles in this eouD- try followed ID with a tremendous expansion of their propaganda service, obviously costing them thousands Of dollars, About a dozen new publications began flowing from Polish propaganda offices, all bitterly antj-RusslaD, These include "POlaDd Fights" "PRels About Poland" "The 20, Iish Review, "Phe Polish Weekly" "P0lish Facts and FignVes," All are very expensive, Use valuable supplies of newsprlDt,
 ID addition, the Polish Embassy has been sending out elaborate brochures about poland, printed tD many e0loEs, outlining P0land's position ln the current b0rdeT dis pnte with Russia, These are lD. seribed to Cabinet members and sympathetic diplomats,
 The Justice Department h.
 Vestjgatl9D shows tbal registered and unregistered PeliSb agents
 hRVe aIs0 been writing RDtbss0S
 VlAt speeches faT e0NRFessNeD HRd tbel Pellsh refugee groups
 haVe heaD attempting EN lwTD Ibe Polish AmeFleRnsPDte aRalnsI Roosevelt in November,
 All thls has infurlated the Rtsle Department and the RnsslansI has put the Polish exile govern mADt very much in the dogEh0n6e, RUSSIAN AleAgR NDfsVRPApEElk
 Reports from the Russian front indicate aD unusual degree Of teamwork between men and 0gglg naTR, and between the I0k0 1leWs selves, MilltRFy 0hseTVlIs ate tribute this lD part 70 the uplgpe method used by the Rllsslans pf publlRblDg soldiers newspapers behind the lines and letting the men write tQ these papers t0 sugE Resl strategy f0F new eampaigns and GoMDleni 9n eIV0fs 0f the past,
 VT0DtsliDe newspRpeVs gre issued daily for each RFmv, Witb papeFs every ether day f0r each arMy e0Tps Ng division, The printing assignment Is teprlfle, since Adl' lions are published ln all tbe various languages spoken by The members ef Soviet armed forces, Instead ef being printed iD cities behind the lines, these papers aye written and printed close te the fT0nt Ilne, with headquarters moving forward constantly With the armies,
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