Evening star., 1945-05-16
MEMORANDUM OF
POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS, INC.

Honorable Edward R. Stettinius, Jr,
Secretary of State,
Hotel Fairmont,
San Francisco, California
Dear Mr. Secretary:
Absence of Poland charter member of the
United Nations from the San Francisco Conference,
taddsd o s nat sne o m
structure With the tomb Of Poland its @ corneF
victory, achieved through sacrifice Of our sons on
the battefeldS of the world, dare not be rendered
futile by new policy of appeasement at this Con-
ference.
Polish nation has become test case Of the sin
cerity and strength Of our American policy. For
that reason the silence Of the United States dele.
cation the absence of legal representatives of
Poland at this Conference has aroused our appre-
tensions. This silence permitted the delegate Of
false defender" of Poland With unequaled cynic-
ism. Mr.: Mootov praised the merits and sacrifices
suffered by Poland in her struggle with common
enemy The only purpose OF his oratory was to
ton, composed of Russian puppets There is no
doubt that the "Lubn Warsaw Provisional Govern
and an tn the
Of the independence of the Polish nation through
ruthless persecution of her people.
Because no voice has been raised at the San
Francisco Conference which would tell the world
the whole truth about the methods employed by
the Red Army and particularly in Poland, we con-
slider it our duty to restate certain basic facts which
are wen @ knewn @ to the american and British Govern
sufficiently emphasized to the general public
In September, 1889 by stabbing Poland in the
Hitler's aggression Soviet Russia violated the fol-
lowing treaties, both bilateral and multilateral
which she had voluntarily concluded
l. The Peace Treaty signed with Poland at Riga on
March Is, 1921.
2 The BRAND Kellogg o 1928.
> The Non-AEsression Pact between Poland the
Soviet Union signed on July 25 1882
L. The Convention concerning definition of axgressor
signed in London July s. l933
The Agreement proonging the Pact Of Non-Aggres-
sion until December 81 1s45 signed on May S. 1884
g. The Covenant Of the League Of Nations which the
Soviet Union entered in September 1884.
In the later course of events Soviet Russia also
violated:
l. The soviet-Polish Agreement Of July 80, 1s41
which annulled the Fourth Partition Poland
performed by Messrs. Mootov and Ribbentrop
September 49, 1889.
g. The viet-Polish Protocol Of friendship and
alliance signed in Moscow December L. 1s41.
The Declaration by the United Nations Of January
1. 1872 embodying the principles Of the Atlantic
Charter common aims of the United Nations in
the war against the Axis
The present conduct of Soviet Russia on the ter
ritory of occupied Poland constitutes further vio
lation of international law and particularly of the
Conventions of The Hague and of Geneva. BY
sequence OF uniateral actions the Soviet Russian
Government:
Of Poland's territory;
= Forciby deprived the constitutional government
Of Poland of possibility Of performing admins
tratve duties on Polish territory, applying to the
representatives Of this Government rules and
methods usually applied not to allies but to enemies
common criminals;
3 Refused to grant the Polish Home Army the rights
Of combatants which, the request Of the
United States and Great Britain was granted to
them by the Germans;
4. Barred the way to Poland to representatives Of
recognized international organizations such IS the
Red Cross, UNRRA and Polish War Relief, Inc.
In further disregard of international law Rus
sia installed in Poland group of Soviet citizens
ernment of Poland" and appointed Soviet citizen
and Comintern official as "actng president of Pol
the Government of the White Russian and Ukrain-
ian Soviet Republics signed with this of Soviet
ing an "agreement' establishing the eastern boun-
Diary of Poland almost entirely along the line orig
naIy drawn n by o Messrs Mootov and Ribbentrop on
change of population" on both sides of that line
which which simply means the expulsion of about five
million Poles from the territory east of the new
frontier"
It the TGTds Of Woodrow
uary a. 1871 in relation to Poand ore on o1
reading than they today. We quote them: "No
right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from
sovereignty to sovereignty as If they property"
There are many other facts which prove that
Soviet Russia's aim to destroy the independence of
the Polish State and finally to include the enslaved
Polish nation into the Soviet Union is being grad
ually achieved
While to liberated" Poland is still denied
to representatives of the governments armies relief
organizations and the press Of the United Nations
it is known that:
l. Enlisted men and officers Of the Polish Army
are daily arrested and deported inside Russia sent
to concentration camps in many instances shot
or hanged, always according to Soviet rules-with-
out trial.
2 The same treatment is being inflicted on repre-
sentatives Of all Polish political parties except the
Communist Party and those who, under terror ac-
cepted Communist control
j. Mass deportations and arrests are being applied
to entire Of the population. In addition to
the estimated 100000 Poles deported the
terror of Russia during the period Of l939-4I, ac-
cording to very conservative estimates 100000 per-
were recently deported into Russia from the
Eastern part of Poland, with 100000 persons de-
ported to unknown destinations from Western
Poland.
l. shift of population prepared and partially COM
menced in the Eastern part Of Poland will deprive
several million Of Poles Of their homes.