BAD TO WORSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1943, Page 4

BAD TO WORSE

RELATIONS BETWEEN POLAND & SOVIET

RUSSIAN PAPERS TAKING BITTER TONE. ■ ATTACKS ON SIKORSKI GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph—-Press Association-r Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 29. Polish-Russian relations appear to have deteriorated very considerably, says the British United Press Moscow correspondent. Russian Press attabks the Sikorski Government attained such violence today that observers doubted whether the Soviet will ever consider resuming relations with them. The territorial ambitions of some Polish quarters are being stressed in Moscow. Both the “Pravda” and the “Red Star” point out that neither the Ukrainians nor the South Russians will become objects of political barter. Maxim Rylsky, in an article in the “Pravda,” refers to General Sikorski’s Cabinet as a “Government of J treachery, lies and perfidy, whibh is ■ leading the Polish nation, not to pros- * perity but to perdition.” Reuter’s Moscow correspondent reports that the statement issued by the Polish Government in London last night has hot yet been jjublished in Moscow. The “Pravda” makes it perfectly clear that the Soviet considers the present members of the Pblish Government to be compromised by their anti-Soviet views and abtions to the extent of making it difficult to conceive that Russians will ever l consent to resume dealings with them. The correspondent adds that the latest Polish statement is calculated only to considerably fan the flames of irritation in Moscow.