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...From the beginning, 35 years ago, they have been progressive and militant...

...Th* Crime* decision about Poland violated this excellent principle not one*, but three times...

...It wiU be an act pf penitence and *ppeas*ment which msy be enpected to lead td reform...

...Witness the scrupulous observsnce of the nonaggression treaties with Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and of the Moscow Conference obligations...

...To assert a principle and to violate it so obviously in 1hr same document it an example of hypocrity with few invalids in human history...

...MscLeiih, who enjoys in some circles the reputation of being s "liberal" and an "idealist," for no visible reason except his ability to write incomprehensible poetry and mellifluous prose thst sddi up to little, if any, coherent meaning, uttered a flat misstatement of fart when he told hie audience that the population of Poland east of the so-called Curzon line was "predominantly Russian and Ukrainian...

...He recognised the obligation to provide asylum for the Polish soldiers who have been fighting for the United Nations cause...

...The mom bora could not count on help from the police, the district sttorney or any other law-enforcing agency...

...If th* British Government believed all along that the Curzon line was Poland's proper eastern frontier why did Foreign Secretary Eden, in a note of July 30, 1941, assure General Sikorski, then head of the Polish Government, that "His Majesty's Government do not recognise Sny territorial changes which have been effected in Poland since August, 1939...

...But there were a few redeeming notes in Churchill'* speech...

...I quote these statements: "It can he a peace—and it STill be a peace— based an th* sound and just principles of the Atlantic Charter...

...The inspiration of such ideals has helped, rather than hindered, in the struggle for day-to-day practical gain...

...Its citizens will b* m*r* onlookers...

...Acheson did not mention the suggestive fact that the group of Americans who are most keenly interested in the fat* of Poland and best informed about condition* there, the Polish-Americans, •re, at a moderate estimate, ninety-five percent opposed to the Polish settlement agreed on at the Crimea Conference...

...But it was a cass of great gift* of oratory and logic being put to b«d use...

...An EditorialGerman Law for German Criminals An interacting note is added to th* argument about war ci iminals by Dr...

...Churchill's vindication of the Polish settlement wss longer, mors explicit, more interesting thsn Roosevelt's...

...But Russians make up barely one percent of the population there...

...Of eighty-four Polish-language publications in this country exactly two, a weekly and a monthly of small circulation in Detroit, are for the Lublin puppet regime...

...This met hod of trial and puhisbmont «UJ ***** • dash and salutary effect Upon th* German population...

...Without help or public encouragement, these trade union men and women tackled the job and carried it through...

...They will is**) in th* direction of psychological self -defense—a* so many of them did after the last war...

...They have lived and practiced it...

...If the engagements concluded at Moscow were so scandalously disregarded, majnly by th* Soviet Government, that the Crimea Conference was recognised at an urgent necessity, what reason ia there to believe that the ( rime* decisions will be kept any more faithfully...

...In 1U32 a group of racketeers flourished in the millinery market...

...Th* antir* industry is now free of racketeer influence...

...W* must show thst it* standards are native here is els*wh«r*, that those who tried to abolish ft were unsuccessful...

...But if they pmg* themselves of their own aim, they trill b* on th* wag to a rebirth...

...In recent years the organization, without sacrificing its militancy, hss become a constructive force for the stabilization of the industry...

...Consistently this union has had objectives which transcended the immediate gains of its members...

...Th* New-Leader congratulates Local 24 on it* record of *chievement...

...We have here a group of leaders and members, numbering more than 10,000, working in close cooperation...

...It (th* Crimea Conference) spells the end of the *y*t*m of unilateral action, and exclusive alliance*, and spheres of influence, snd balances of power, sad all the ether expedient* which h*v* been tried for centuries—end have failed...

...Churchill mad* the impression of protesting too much when be denied that he was bowing to force...

...If there could be anything worse than the Crimea Conference decision about Poland it ia th* flood of insincere propagandist apologetics for that decision thst tend to chloroform public opinion about the true situation in Poland and the flagrant contradiction be,t ween the Moscow dictated settlement of Yalta and the pi ineiples of the Atlantic Charter...

...W* must make it cle** that law rules s»eiywh*se mpecfally in Germany...

...Their ideals have Included a vision of improvement I for the entire working class...

...What we aim at U th* re-ettablithment of juttic...

...Article 2 of the latter document reads as follows: "They desire to to* no territorial changes that do not accord with th* freely *xpre»*ed wi*he* of the ptople concerned...

...This is slso true as regards all the large Polish-American fraternal and cultural association* Such nearunanimity of judgment in • free country, where there is no Gestapo, no NKVD to "manufacture" enforced conformity, is certainly significant...

...It was a tough combination for a union to face...

...Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner in last week's \>«# Volkszeitung...

...To them solidarity has not been a meaningless word...

...If punishment la applied from without, th* nation will ho r*l»tiv*ly unaffected...

...This ia Local 24 of the Millinery Workers Union...

...They were largely supported by employ*™ who nursed the hope of thus winning "protection" against the spread of unionism...

...Aa in other fields, w* ar* hot about areas ef crime and completely oblivious of other areas where thing* go right...

...We have in New York a union which the racketeers tried to take over and from which they wars driven •• completely that they have never been able to stag* a comeback...

...Now whst sre the facts about the Crimea declaration and the Atlantic Charter...

...It was pitiful to see Churchill, who must know bettor, lending th* authority of his name to the fsmiliar inaccurate statement that th* so-called Curzon line was a binding frontier, not a temporary and very imperfect demarcation line, which did not extend to Eastern Galicla and therefore did not affect the Polish claim to Lwow at all...

...It handed over a third of Poland to the Soviet Union, Koenigsberg and a part of Eaat Prussia to the Soviet Union, an undefined amount of purely German territory to Poland...

...An Editorial— A Progressive Union Celebrates DOTH friends and foe* of the labor movement are excited about racketeers...

...By this line of reasoning the United State* and Great Britain might claim the annexation of Normandy, Brittany and Sicily...

...Tkii to fa* hypocrisy (hat endeavors to gloss Over Or deny the reality of the b.utalily...

...Wagner sees two advantages in this proc*duslt Our object is not mors revenge...

...In no case was there the slightest indication of an intention to ascertain "the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned...

...From the start they have had to fight hard for every gain, but th* improvements have been continuous...

...After bitterly denouncing Hitler snd his satellites ho propose* that t hey be triad under Allied supervision but in German court* before German judges and under German laws...

...He did, however, make two statements that are in Strang*, almost escapist rontradition to the hard realities of a Stalin-dominated Europe...

...Both optimists and pessimists about the Crimea Conference ought to be able to unite on a program of using all the influence of the American Government to promote the realization of elementary human rights and liberties in Poland before any elections are held...

...They dodged *v*ry essential issue and war* discreetly and diplomatically silent about the reign of terror in Sovietoccupied Poland thst makes the prospect of "free and unfettered elections" gloomy, to ssy the least...

...A sentence at the end of the decision of the Allied Supreme council which recognised Poland's right to set up an administration west of the so-called Curzon line disposes finally and completely of the allegation that this line was conceived as a definite and final eastern border: "Rights which Polsnd assy claim to the tsrritories situated ts th* Seat of th* abovementioned line ar* expressly reserved...

...These redeeming notes offset the bad joke in which he indulged when he said: "I feel that no government stands more to its obligations than the Russian Soviet Government...

...They ' have always responded to the needs of other unions and other industries...

...The British Government has announced a step thst all lovers of freedom, justice, and decency* in this country should press Roosevelt snd Stettinius to follow...

...Dean Acheson, when reminded by MscLeiih that s»me writers thought Polsnd hsd been sold down the river, soothingly replied that this was only typical of a small minority...

...Two members of the Stat* Department, Dean Acheson and Archibald MacI.eish, put on an exhibition of auch apologetics over the radio recently...

...This organisation, now celebrating its 85th anniversary, deserves credit for the record which it has made...

...As for Roosevelt's second statement, Hull said almost the aama thing in almost the same words after his return from the Moicow Conference In the autumn of 1943...

...It is true that the Ukrainians snd the Poles are th* two largest group* in that raciailymixed area...

...According to his account every one of the Nasis was guilty of crime from the moment when they took over in 1933...

...It has promised to take up with the Soviet Government the question of releasing PoKsh political prisoners and deportees, smong whom is numbered the wife of the veteran Socialist Prime Minister of the legitimate Polish Government, Tomasz Arcisxewiki...

...The nine Congressmen of Polish extraction are all opposed to the partition and subjugation of Poland...

...And, it 1* maintained, this obj*ct will be most clearly attained if law is not imported into Germany and administered by foreign agent...

...He put more thoughtfully than most American commentators the standards for free and unfettered elections...

...There were many oth*r sophistries in Churchill's speech, notably his assumption that Soviet annexation was justified because Russia "saved" Poland from German nil...

...In hia address to Congress after his return Roosevelt offered practically no new argument on behalf of the Polish decision...