POLISH RIGHTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 5

POLISH RIGHTS

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA DECLARATION BY GENERAL SIKORSKI. RECOGNITION OF TREATIES EXPECTED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. July 2. Speaking in London today, the Polish Premier, General Sikorski, said: ‘'The struggles of nations, races and systems are but the birth pangs of a new order of things based upon the highest universal human values which, for better or worse, will determine the future of the world." He emphasised that the Polish nation deliberately chose to take up arms against those who had refused to acknowledge those values and, after enduring nearly two years of struggle, it was determined to stand fast till final victory was achieved.

General Sikorski continued: “During the last 10 days or so'Russia has entered the ranks of Germany's adversaries. This, in itself, is a significant and favourable event, whatever might be said of the wrongs the Soviet Government had previously done to the camp of freedom and democracy when she seemed not to know which was the proper path for her to take. That path was determined by the principal aggressor, Nazi Germany. “Now that the Soviet Union stands on the side of the nations opposed to the methods of aggression and the treating of international obligations as scraps of paper, we Poles are entitled to expect that the Russians will not be tardy in restoring the Russian-Pol-ish relations to a legal position, based upon the mutual obligations undertaken during' 1921, 1932 and 1935 by means of treaties which were freely concluded and subsequently violated by the Soviet Union.”