HISTORIC AGREEMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1941, Page 5

HISTORIC AGREEMENT

BETWEEN RUSSIA & POLAND TREATIES OF 1939 ANNULLED. FORMATION OF POLISH ARMY. (British Official Wireless.) i (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) ' RUGBY, July 30. A Russian-Polish agreement was. signed in London today. The text of' this historic document is as follows: — (1) The Government of the U.S.S.R. recognises the Soviet-German treaties of 1939, as to territorial changes in Poland, as having lost their validity and the Polish Government declares that Poland is not bound by any agreement with any Third Power which is directed against the U.S.S.R. (2) Diplomatic relations arc to be restored between the two Governments, upon the signing of the agreement and an immediate exchange of ambassadors will be arranged. (3) The two Governments mutually agree to render one another aid and support of all kinds in the present war against Hitlerite Germany. (4) The Government of the U.S.S.R. consents to the formation in the territory of the U.S.S.R. of a Polish army, under a commander appointed by the Polish Government, in agreement with the Soviet Government, the Polish Army on Soviet territory being subordinated in an operational sense to the supreme command of the U.S.S.R.. upon which the Polish Army will be represented. All details, as to the command, organisation and employment of this force to be settled by a subsequent agreement. (5) This agreement is to come into force immediately, upon signature and without ratification. The present agreement has been drawn up in two copies, each of them in the Russian and Polish languages and both with texts of equal force. By a protocol, the Soviet Government grants an amnesty to all Polish citizens now detained in Soviet territory, either as prisoners of war or on other sufficient grounds, as from the resumption of'diplomatic relations.