The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-14

by as high, wide ana OutSloe. DuI every once in a while the propa- ganda pitchers accidentally deliver a fast one right over the plate and you can swing at it.
 Definitely in this groove Is a piece called "Resurgent-Poland, " occupying half of the latest issue of the Information Bulletin of the Embassy of USSR."
 This handy little eight-page pamphlet comes out three times a week under the imprint of Russia's Washington embassy, and is there fore the official last word On what Moscow thinks you should know and wants you to believe about its affairs.
 The piece in question, by one K. Rudnitsky, leads off with the as- sertion that, "The world is follow ing with intense interest the pro- cesses taking place in liberated Po- land" skeptics may say this is something of an understatement, but let Mr. Rudnitsky tell you:
 SYMPATHY IS RIGHT
 Boldly laying new paths for its development on lines of broad poll- tical and economic democracy" he says, ''the country is winning the sympathy of all progressive sections of freedom-loving nations.
 No observer who is at all impar- tial,' MT. Rudnitsky continues, can fail to be amazed at the speed and efficiency with which the newly resurrected Polish state is handling the exceedingly difficult problems. "
 He itemizes, An overwhelming majority of the industrial plants have been reopened Today in dustry is employing over 60 per cent of the pre-war number of workers. Immense work has been done to rehabilitate the railways" and so on. Then comes the caution:
 The government. as you know y writes Rudnitsky, took over large scale industry, but it was also ob- liged to extend it's administration to vast number of medium and small enterprises, owing to the ab- sence of their owners
 Where these owners are, the au- thor doesn't say, but he does ex- plain the philosophy of this expro- priation in most revealing terms:
 Prom the very first" he says, the provisional government has declared that private initiative and private capital would be allowed and encouraged in medium and small industry. These medium and small plants are now being turned over to their lawful owners, or if the lat ter are not available, to the pro- ducers' cooperative societies, or else leased to private individuals"
 REDS AIMS TO PLEASE
 PEASANTS
 This being so satisfactorily ex- plained, Rudnitsky next takes up agrarian reform:
 Literally on the day following the election of the invaders" he writes, when the sound of guns had not yet ceased. the provisional government proceeded to carry out the primary point of its program, namely, the abolition of the landed estates and the apportionment of the land to the peasants
 "The reform, embracing the whole of Poland from one end to the other, is now in the main complet- ed. Individual peasant holdings have been demarcated and deeds conferring private ownership of the land issued. Some 4,300,O0O hectares Cover 10,000,000 acres) were confis- cated from the big landowners"
 Well, that's how Moscow wants you to believe things are in Poland. There's a lot more to the article but these pertinent paragraphs will give you the idea. While it lasted, it was just nice, quiet, well-managed little revolution they must have had.