18 JUNE 1942, Page 13

—In Lord Maugham's enumeration of essential reparations by ennany which

you quote under this heading in the leading article of air issue of June trzth, the most essential appears to be omitted, in the be of Poland, namely the restitution of lands, farms and houses to k rightful owners, or their heirs or representatives in cases where the triers exiled or taken to forced labour in Germany are dead or cannot

t traced. •

The Germans ,to whom farms in Western Poland have been handed 'Cr should be repatriated to Germany and no visa granted to any IssPort for them to leave that country for a term of years. The same ed by the Soviet Union with Great Britain and the United States, ciple is inherent in respect of Eastern Poland in the treaty just ri firth regard to exiles to Siberia, as the treaty " renounces all aggressive