BRITAIN AND POLAND
Sra,—With the new approach to the Warsaw administration by the British Government, would it not be useful to draw the attention of the British public to the fact that about 50,000 officers and men of the former Home Army in Poland have been deported by the N.K.V.D. to Russia and that nothing more has been heard of them? They belong to ,those units of the Home Army which, in obedience to instructions from London, fought against the withdrawing German armies in the Eastern provinces of Poland in 1914, and which, also in obedience to instructions from London, went forward to meet the approaching Soviet Army, declaring their loyalty to it as allies and their willingness to co- operate in the common struggle against the Germans. Among the prisoners still in Russia there are the Town Major of Wilna and his deputy ; the C.O. of the 9th Division of the Home Army ; the C.O. of the area of Lublin ; the Chief of Staff of the 27th Home Army Division ; the G.C.O. of the 3rd Home Army Division, and the C.O. of the area of Lwow. In addition to these, there are members of the Polish Under- ground Government who, after operating throughout the war in Poland, were sentenced by the Soviet authorities at Moscow in the famous trial of the sixteen Polish leaders. Is it asking too much to suggest that the fate of these most faithful allies of the democratic Powers should be investigated by the American and British Governments before the new approach, brought by Mr. Bevin from Moscow, is put into opera-
tion?—Yours faithfully, • Z. NAGORSKL 43 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh.
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