Detroit evening times., 1945-05-29
End the Pacific VIGOROUSLY Make the Peace PERMANENTLY Bring Our Boys Home PROMPT
By WILLIAM HENRY CHA

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resentatives of the four strongest parties
in prewar Poland and kept-up close
connection with the active Polish under
ground movement.
Many Poles in Russia were released
and Polish army was raised on Russian
soil. Had the Soviet government con-
tinued to work Loyalty with the Polish
government and respected PoiaDd's from
tiers, genuine Soviet-Polish Friendship
would have developed, to the great bene-
fit of European peace
UNFORTUNATELY, as soon as the
u military situation became more
favorable, Stain sharply changed his
policy Polish relief work was closed down,
Poles in Russia were arbitrarily declared
Soviet citizens So many obstacles were
placed in the way of equipping the Polish
army that it was evacuated to the Middle
East and later fought with notable cour-
age and distinction in Italy. -
The Germans in the spring Of 1943
announced the discovery of the bodies of
thousands of slaughtered Polish officers
in the Katyn Forest. near Smolensk. The
Polish government been Yaintv en-
the fate of these men from the Soviet
authorities.
A very reasonable request by the
Pol sh government to the international
Red Cross to Investigate the incident Was
taken as an excuse to break of dipto-
matte relations by the Soviet govern
menf
Both the Germans and the Russians
held investigations" of this massacre
and each naturally blamed other
There are two strong pieces Of circum-
stantial evidence indicating Russian re-
sponsibility.
The first is the long refusal of the
Soviet government to give any informa-
ton, which would have been unnatural
If the camp in which theN Polish officers
were confined had been abandoned to the
advancing Germans
The other is the fact tharhere were
apparently no survivors of the massacre
TT rs almost unthinkabie that some of
i the officers would not have escaped
during the interval between the retreat
Of the Russians and the arrival of the
Germans
THE STORY OF MINGLED SOVIET
BRUTALITY AND CHICANERY CON
TINUED UP TO YALTA. THROUGH
YALTA AND SINCE YALTA.
AS the Soviet armies advanced into
Poland in 1914 a puppet government,
headed by we'll known agent Of the
Communist International, Boleslaw Bic
rut. was set-up.
A heroic uprising of the Polish nation
alists in Warsaw was first melted in radio
broadcasts from Moscow, then abandoned
to its fate. Polish patriot underground
units helped the Red army fight the Ger
mans. AS reward they were disarmed
and arrested
The notorious NaZ horror camp,
Majdanek, began to function under the
new management Of the Soviet police as
prison for Polish patriots.
Yalta represented a desperate effort
TO save some shred of Polish independ-
enee by granting Stains annexationist
demands for two-fifths of Poand's terri-
tory.
1t was declared under the signatures
of Stain, Roosevelt and Churchill that
"the provisional government Uhich is
not1 functioning ir Poland should be
reorsanized on broader democratic
bosie Uith the inclusion of democratic
leaders from Poland itself and from
Poles abroad" and that the neW gou-
ernment shall be pledged to the hold
ing of free and unfettered elections as
soon as possible on the basis of uniuer-
sal suffrage and secret ballot"
STALIN'S IDEA OF KEEPING HIS
WORD HAS BEEN TO VETO EVERY
AMERICAN AND BRITISH CANDI-
DATE FOR INCLUSION IN THE GOV
ERNMENT AND TO CARRY OUT A
T R f A c II ER OUS S ARREST OF IS
LEADING POLES WHO WERE FIGHT
ING THE GERMANS AS MEMBERS OF
THE UNDERGROUND.
The whole sordd story Is a tragedy
for heroic Poland a disgrace for America
and England and conclusive proof that
appeasement of Stain is just as hopeless
as appeasement of Hitler or the Japanese