POLAND’S WILL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20057, 2 October 1939, Page 7

POLAND’S WILL

FUTURE LIBERTY NEW PRESIDENT CABINET IN PARIS AGGRESSORS ACCUSED NAZI-SOVIET PLOT (Reed. October 2, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. It was reported from Bucharest yesterday that M. Moscicki had resigned the Presidency of Poland in favour of M. Racziewicz. It was expected that the new Foreign Min ister would be M. Zaleski. The Polish Embassy in London announced that General Sikorski, the commander of the Polish Army in France, had been appointed as the Prime Minister of Poland. A Paris message states that the Polish Government in exile was established in France when M. Racziewicz, the new President, took the oath of office at the Polish Embassy, thereby outmanoeuvring Germany, which hoped that M. Moscicki’s internment in Rumania would prevent the formation of a Government. M Racziewicz dissolved the old Cabinet and appointed General Sikorski as the Prime Minister and Minister of War, M. Stronski, as vice-Prime Minister, M. Zeleski as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Koc as Minister of Finance. Flagrant Violation Count Raczynsky delivered the following note to Britain: “In view of the' flagrant violation of the sacred rights of the Republic of Poland and the Polish nation, committed by the agreement of September 28-29 between Germany and Russia, which disposed of the territory of Poland for the benefit of two aggressor States. I raise, "in the name of the Polish Government, a most formal and most solemn protest against the plot hatched between Berlin and Moscow in disregard of all international obligations and all principles of morality. “Poland will never recognise this act of violence and, fortified by the justice of her cause, she will never cease to struggle until her territory is liberated from the invaders and her ultimate rights fully re-establish-ed. IJy the heroic resistance of her army and by the patriotic sacrifices of her -entire population manifested in the defence to the last of Warsaw, Lwow, Wilno, Gdynia, and Modlin and so many other Polish cities, the -nation dearly demonstrated before the world its unshaken will to live in freedom and independence." It is reported in Bucharest that Germany considers M. Moscicki’s resignation was not in accordance with neutrality and Germany is making representations to Rumania. It is said that M. Moscicki wrote his resignation the. moment he crossed the bor-

uer ana nanaea me resignation u> his aide to hold. Anyway, it is pointed out in Bucharest that M. Moscicki was not imprisoned and his correspondence was not subject to control. A message from Belgrade states states that M. Moscicki reached Yugoslavia and is going to Paris as a private person. M. Wladyslaw Racziewicz, the new President of Poland, was associated when a student with secret political organisations working for Polish independence. He studied law and served as an officer in the P-ussian Army from 1914 to 1917. In 1919 he became chief of the administration of the Minsk district. He saw further fighting after organising the committee to defend the eastern provinces, and subsequentely spent several terms as Polish Minister of the Interior.