Evening star., 1944-12-13
Provisional Regime
May Be Set Up Soon
BY Moscow Poles
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 13. - Establish
ment OF a provisional government of
Poland at the next session of the
Polish National Council early In
the new year is forecast by Boleslaw
Beirut, the council president.
Weighing his words carefully but
answering every question, the 81
year-old Polish leader made the
announcement during an hour-long
interview yesterday His council,
which has headquarters at Lublin,
Poland, is in opposition to the Lon
don exile government.
Various report have indicated
.sthat Russia, which has sponsored
development of the council and
the parallel Committee of Ma
tional Liberation, will recognize
the proposed Lublin regime. The
western Allies have dealt with the
London group as the legitimate
Polish government. All efforts to
effect union of the two have
been unsuccessful0
II believe France will recognize
the new Poland because of the ira
ditional friendship between our two
countries" Beirut declared.
(Similar unoficial expressions
now are being heard in Paris in
connection with the new 10
year pact signed by France and
Russia during Gen. de Gaulle's
visit to Moscow last week.
The Beirut council is the wartime
equivalent of parliament. Under
the 1921 Polish constitution it
should have 444 members. There are
only 100 now, but the number will
grow as more of Poland is liberated.
The council was organized clam
destinely by underground groups in
German-occupied zones. Since
general election of deputies was i'm
possible they were delegated by vari-
GUS political, labor union, trade and
agricultural groups, Beirut said.
"As soon as Poland is fully lib
Grated, parliament will be chosen by
a general election as the consti-
tuition requires" the council presi-
dent said.
His reference to the constitution
was the one adopted in 1921. Beirut
and other spokesmen of the Lublin
group frequently have emphasized
that the London government draws
its authority from the 1885 consti-
tuition. In Berut's words this con-
stitution "set up dictatorship"
May Be New President.
Told that numerous Poles had
been heard to speak of him as the
logical first president of a new Polish
republic. Beirut replied:
Il am quite a new man in ma
tional political life and must DEM
onstrate that I deserve the peoples
coincidence. My work as president
OF the national council has been of
too short duration for all the peo-
pie to know me well as yet.
"A president of Poland will he
elected by general ballot after the
war-in an election like yours in the
United States when you elected
President Roosevelt.
according to the 1921 constitu-
ton the President of Parliament as
sumes the duties of the President OF
the Republic in the latters absence.
This has happened now with the
National Council, of which am
President, serving as the wartime
Parliament. But 1t will be the people
OF Poland who will choose their fu-
ture leaders"
Beirut said 1t was hoped that the
foreign policy of the new Poland
would be built on a keystone of
friendship with Its neighbors. an
objective which he declared was
contrary" to the policy pursued be-
fore the war by Jozef Beck, Polish
foreign minister from 1882 to 1899.
Oder Frontier Demanded.
He added that the future Poland
"of course will have its frontier on
the Oder"
(The Oder River cuts a large
slice of Eastern Germany ad-
joining Poland. This ranges
from around 40 miles in Silesia In
the south to as much as 100 on
the Baltic in the north. This
area would compensate Poland
for territory lost on the east by