POLISH POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 4

POLISH POLICY

AIMS OF NEW GOVERNMENT STATED BY INFORMATION MINISTER Four years ago the new Polish Government was formed in Paris with the late General Sikorski as Prime Minister. In a broadcast to Poland on October 2, commemorating that event, Professor Kot, Polish Information Minister, emphasised that the Government set up four years ago, was still working to this day following General Sikorski’s political testament, stating that: — (1) “Polish relations with Russia must be placed on a basis of a lasting, straightforward understanding, which would take into consideration the Polish nation’s vital interests, honour and rights. (2) “The necessity of forging lasting bonds with Great Britain, basing thereon Poland’s necessarily wider access to the sea was one of the ideas General Sikorski was always voicing. (3) “The continuation of the traditional friendship with U.S.A. (4) “Poland cannot live in isolation—she must co-operate on a broad scale with Western democracies. (5) “A problem which occupied General Sikorski constantly when he looked into the post-war future was how to rebuild Poland in such a way that the September catastrophe should never recur. When questioned he advocated a Central European Federation, regarded not as a ‘cordon sanitaire’ but a zone of economic co-operation. He regarded a Central Eastern European Federation as an inevitable historic proc,ess, which was bound to come. Central Eastern European states had emerged from Versailles Tree, but dismembered and disorganised. From the present war that part of Europe must arise not only free, but merged and organised. It is Europe’s weakest part and it must be strengthend.”