RUSSIA AND POLAND
StR,—Mr. J. Pietrzycki writes that not long ago, in 1940-41, not only among Poles, but generally among the Allies, the opinion was held that certain German territory which she had formerly taken from Poland would by right return to the Poles. May I point out that if Poland herself would accept this principle and renounce her claims to the White-Russian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian lands taken by Poland, then the permanent settlement in Eastern Europe for which Mr. Churchill and Marshal Stalin are working, would be achieved, and Poland would emerge a nation greatly strengthened by the termination of the' constant conflict with all her neighbours in the East and, if she so desired,' by an Anglo-Russian guarantee against renewed German aggression.—Yours [This correspondence as now closed.—En., Spectator.]
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