Evening star., 1945-02-19
Prayda Hits 0'konski
For Criticizing YaIta
Decisions on Poland

Decisions on Poland
BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Feb. 19.-Pravda yes
terday assailed Representative
OKonski for his criticism of the
Yalta declaration on Poland. The
Communist newspaper also at
tackled former Premier Stanislas
Mikolajczyk of the London govern
ment, who Red Star had limited
might participate in a reorganized
Warsaw regime.
Pravda suoke out on the eve
Iof negotiations here to revise the
Warsaw government. The Crimea
Conference called for "a broader
democratic basis with the inclusion
Of democratic leaders from Poland
itself and from Poles abroad" pre-
liminary to recognition by the
United States and Britain.
Mr.. OKonski, Pravda said, had
repeated "a dirty insinuation OF
Fascist propaganda concerning lib
Grated Poland and the Baltic"
Against a background of unpre-
cedented unanimity of view toward
the Crimea conference in the United
States and England, the speech of
Republican O'Konski attracted gen.
eral attention" Pravda observed
From the tribune of the House of
Representatives he spoke like Goeb-
bells. Most surprising was that some
Republicans in the House approved
this political buffoonery. Mr..
OKonski is opposed to LONG list
of prominent members of the Ameri-
can Congress, including former
isolationists, who welcomed the
Crimea decisions"
Address Quoted.
(Mr. OKonski told the House
last Tuesday that the settlement
over Poland represented a success
for Propaganda Minister Goeb-
bells second only to that of
Munich" The son Of Polish
born parents, he declared, THE
selling out of Poland Is a stab in
the back to freedom - de-
nunciation of the Atlantic
Charter.D
Pravda said the Polish govern
ment in London had been acting
in unison with Berlin" adding
"Mikolajczyk has aligned himself
with Arciszewski (Tomasz ArceEew-
ski, premier of the London regime) =,
having made a statement against
the Crimea decisions in the press"
Pravda's disposal Of Mr.. Miko-
lajczyk as an assumed adherent Of
Polish reactionaries, who have
placed themselves outside the ranks
of the United Nations" came two
days after Red stars article. The
Army newspaper had welcomed q
statement it said he made disas-
sociating himself from the anti
Crimea stand of the exiled govern
ment.
Representative O'Konski, inter-
viewed at Milwaukee, said yester-
day: ...
IF any one else called me a
Fascist I would be very worried. I
despise Fascists and Nazis with my
whole soul, but when Pravda calls
An1cs asFascist I am not worried be-
'caslse they call any one who does
not agree with the Russian posi-
ton on anything "a
First Pravda criticizes Mikolajc-
zyk because they do not want him.
They do, not intend to negotiate
with him, and they do not intend
that he shall participate in any con-
ference in connection with the Yalta
meeting for settling the Polish
boundary question. Because Mix
olajcZyk is not 100 per cent in agree
ment with the Russian position. The
Polish government in London would
be wiling tpromprpmise 80 per sfeht
II they knew the dividing line would
be all the farther Russia would 60.
However, because they won't go the
other 10 per cent Russia refuses to
negotiate with them. They would
not have Mikola jczyk if he went to
Moscow on his hands and knees,
pleading"
Mr.. O'Konski expressed great re-
gret that he could find no occasion
where President Roosevelt disagreed
with Stain. This is just another
example" he said.
What angered Pravda at me, :"
Mr.. OKonski continued, lis my in
serting in the Congressional Record
the background of the Lublin gov
ernment. Pravda says the Polish
government has been acting in uni
son with Berlin, which is just the
same as saying they are collaborat-
ing with Berlin. That is a dirty
contemplate lie, because there has
not been one Polish collaboration
with por1ip -