a propaganda bulletin, ches recently made in the a cS for example, is an ex- j trom the speech of John os Sn, Independent Labor- . if it had not been for lta and her pact with Ger- y, the whole Continent -t never have. been placed : Sletely under the heel of “aany, and France might have collapsed as she did : this Social - Democrat, qinich never existed. There no Chamberlain “peace in time” policy. There was no uragement to Hitler to ex- { eastward. There was no /er-Mussolini plot with ico against the Republie of Wn. Ali this is forgotten. | villian is Russia! tn McGovern speaks such ds after the Red Army de- yed the myth of the invin- ity of Hitler’s hordes, when ¥ Student of Soviet policy vs that the USSR fought @ collective security precisely m revent this war. : eGovern’s position has a re- / nm both to the present and future. The problem today -e win the war, establish Be and build such a struc- “of the Wnited Nations as prevent future wars. ‘do this it is necessary to Germany, yet Aneuran in, another Laborite, ks against it. Here is what jays: furthesmore believe it ‘Id be a nonsensical thing to zember, Germany by taking y from her any part of her itory which she properly ards as-Germany.” : “ich thoughts will be better erstood if we quote from “International Socialist Fo- mi, published by a group of (ash and emigre Social Dem- ats. It is edited by a Ger- a, Julius Braunthal. This H lication contains lengthy EBs -on- “The German-Hast- | Frontier.” The concluding iele jn this publication is en- ed, “East Prussia at the jssroads~ of Three Giviliza- Fis.’ From it we learn that: ’ “Hast Prussia was not an |strament of the ‘drive to ep East, but a connecting is between Germany and >oland.” Vhat are the facts? {Ei frontiers of Poland estab- lished in 1918 were deter- Med not in the interest of Mt nation, but to provide an post of intervention against + Soviet Revolution, or at st as a link in the cordon utaire against the Soviet sion. : ; “Polish Fortnightly Review.’ eretvettereretstasd Volume 1, No. 12, January 20, 1945 The Polish nation has chosen the road to democracy and peace, a.road opposite to the Polish emigre government and their sup- porters the British Social Democrats and their German colleagues House of Commons. Fast Germany. remained in Poland by foree of arms extended its territory in the East. This corresponded with the ambitions of the Pol- ish landlords who owned huge estates in the Ulzaine, Byelo- Russia and Lithuania. Prussia Professor Oscar Lange of the University of Chicago correct- ly observes that: “The chief concern of Polish policy, was, therefore, territo- rial expansion in the Hast. The reactionary Polish governments had partly neglected to pursue “Poland’s claims in the West; partly these claims did not By Boleslaw Gebert e :uapeneaaaenenaacanasandeacrsraesapapnanaeeevaceeeQUeUEa ras QecPQreeet Ue Ried OPERAREDUALECSLASESREDGASESLEELEDETSTELSARULEPATELAEELALLAS (iE Ministry of Information of the emigre Polish Government in London publishes One of its issues is devoted to It is interesting to observe how much B Polish reactionaries like the speeches of some British M.P S. fully supported on ethnograp- hie grounds. However, a large section of the population of Hast Prussia is still Polish- speaking (the Mazurians), and even a) larger part has been Germanized so recently that it would revert to Polish national- ity under the mere influence of the new political environ- ment (without any coercion). “Tn the ‘last plebiscite this Polish-speaking population vot- ed mostly for Germany, be- cause, being Protestant, they feared Catholic domination. The social and political struc- ture of postwar Poland will be such that no fears need be en- tertained. “Te is an unfortunate fact that the Poles and the Germans have never got on well togeth- er. They have always been at daggers drawn.” Well, well! The poor Ger- mans probably should be pro- tected from the barbarian Poles! The British Social-Democrats are helping the reactionary Po- lish emigre be- cause these gentlemen are so valiantly anti-Soviet that they stand up in defense not only of the Polish fascists but of the German as well. The Communist M.P., Wil- liam Gallacher, when he spoke these words in the House of Commons: government was correct “But it is essential to Polish independence that the country SADECDDAAENOUEADARDDECEODESOUSESAESSEDS2 ADOC CESSADSCASSALEDAESSLASELIRE A reply to some British M.P..’ S, Social Democrats and others who ahed fon for Germany and have Saly insults for the Soviet Union. meet with the sympathy of the Western Powers. Thus terri- tories with a prevailing Polish population were left with Ger- many (in Upper Silesia and in southern East Prussia), and Poland was exposed to the threat of a stab in