SIR,—In your article "Poland's Dilemma," published in your issue of
anuary 14th, you express the view that " the over-riding fact is that either Poland herself nor any other Power can prevent Russia from ing any Russo-Polish frontier that she may decide to fix." You are doubtedly right in stating this blunt truth. But may I add that such statement, hardly encouraging for either Poland or any of the European tions, cannot be accepted as a final verdict in international life? We e fighting, so we are told, for a new order based on international law d respect for moral values. When British and American troops invade urope and drive the German oppressor out of Belgium, Norway, France d Holland, there is not the slightest doubt whatever that the respective overnments will return to their native countries ; that British and
can troops to hand over step by step the administration in the berated areas to the local authorities, and that they are not going to min any strips of land in either Belgium or France or Norway.
Europe will be always a rather unsafe place unless the same precepts d rules which are adopted in the West are to be adopted in the st. For that reason a comprehensive system of security for all should be established and a common basis should be created for all countries of Europe. No bilateral pacts or agreements are likely to bring about peace and stability ; only a return to the old principles of justice, inter- national law, goodwill and decency opens more hopeful vistas for the
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