POLAND PROTEST COMMUNIST TERRORISM, ASK FREE ELECTIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION
STOUT, JONATHAN
Wn^liiiiifloii anil ilio Xaiioii Poland Protests Communist Terrorism; feks Free Elections Under International Commission if JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C.—Timing it nicely for tho meeting of...
...JONATHAN STOUT CONTINUED) "In the Allentown eree," Mr...
...Patterson said, "the immediate manpower requirement ia 2,400, of whom 1,000 are needed now in plants engaged in "must" production which is behind schedule...
...The only question Is: what can be done about it...
...This is not the first time charges of Communist terrorism have followed the advancing Red armies...
...Similar charges came from Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Rumania...
...In its plea for protection, the Polish Government said it was in possession of proof that political opponents of the puppet government sponsored by the Russians and the heroic Polish underground army were being "liquidated" by Polish Communists and Russian secret police...
...Fascist- and Nazi-infected areaV of Europe at being prepared to accept Communist totalitarianism as a successor...
...Since th* Soviet Government has not permitted American and British correspondents free access to liberated areas, as advancing American and British armies do, it has not been possible to penetrate the mystery of what goes on behind the Soviet newsblackout...
...In fact.^ Soviet secrecy has only succeeded in implanting the suspicion that the Soviet...
...Labor conscription, from their view, will not be perfect until it is entirely in their hands and the whole nation goosesteps at the bark of the drill sergeant...
...reported that of the 110 men drafted up to that date, the entire 110 accepted the jobs assigned them...
...The chargea of Communist terrorism coming in succettion from Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Poland, therefore, fall on fallow ground prepared to...
...The Polish Government asked that the American and British Governments intervene in the situation and set up an international commission to rule Poland until free elections could be held...
...Tkers if, •/ course, only one sure way of disproving Such charge: And that it for the Soviet Government to pormit American and British correspondent/ to have at free access to th* Balkan* and eastern Europe as ihry hart to Italy and Franco...
...The Allentown Plan, apparently, does not satisfy the military totalitarians...
...Behind the Bed Army there still broods the ominous mystery ef dead silence...
...In other words, the only reason that 2,400 men said to be needed in the Allentown area have not been obtained is because the WMC has so far only drafted 261 of them As for Patterson's claim that only 107 of this number actually took the war jobs assigned them by the WMC, this claim is contradicted by the Allentown regional office of the WMC which, on January 25...
...The other school derides this view as beating a horse 25-yesrs-dead and points to the...
...But then, Mr...
...Official circlet in Washington are not inclined to question the truth of the Polish Government's charges...
...feks Free Elections Under International Commission if JONATHAN STOUT WASHINGTON, D. C.—Timing it nicely for tho meeting of Roosevelt...
...have something to hide from their allies...
...In diplomatic circles Roosevelt's present task in dealing with Stalin on such questions is regarded with the greatest gravity...
...And that depends on Roosevelt's ability to hold tho line for democracy In the current Big Three meeting...
...Thus far the program (the Allentown Plan), rigorously backed by all agencies of government, using all the powers of persuasion they possess and backed by threat of sanctions, in four weeks has resulted Ui meeting one-tenth of the immediate need in the "must" plants and less than onetwentieth of the immediate need in the whole area...
...In making this plea the Polish Government in exile made plain its willingness to abide by the democratic deciaion of the Polish people...
...Patterson admitted that "as of Feb...
...The State Department hat made representations to the Soviet Government on this score, but so far nothing has come of it...
...Churchill and Stalin, tho Polish Government in London last week-end transmitted its second appeal in a month for AMied protection of the Polish population against Communist terrorism in the areas liberated by the Red Army...
...It is understood here that the appeal was transmitted to President Roosevelt...
...3, the War Manpower Commission reported that 261 workers under the program have been referred to war jobs and that/107 of them have actually taken war jobs...
...The appeal was made simultaneously in Washington and London by the Polish Ambassadors...
...Ia effect, it dared (he puppet government to do likewise...
...credit them...
...There are two schools of thought on the question of postwar dangers...
...For more than a year the growing view in such circlet in Washington hat been that the real postwar danger in Europe it that total itarianitm will emerge the real beneficiary of the world's tacriflcea...
...One school appears to fear that old-fashioned capitalist reaction will follow the war's end...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 6
