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What is quite clear is that the pre-Kiźemieniec, a tiny village situated at liminary intrigues of the German the cross of two roads, one leading to- are one of the wards the east, the other to the west. espionage services causes of the Polish defeat. When it I arrived there on the day of its initial became impossible to resort to certain bombardment by the German planes. methods, such as light signals onThe day before, the Soviet ambassador, chimneys, the Germans had recourse Mr. Charonoff, had left Krzemieniec with all his' services; they had not a to other means.
long way to go before reaching their own territory.
On the fifth day of the Polish war, the diplomatic corps was evacuated to Kazimierz and Nalentchouff, pictures-
The German wireless, informed by que Polish spas where diplomats ac- the secret posts, began to give definite customed to the luxuries of life could details concerning the locality where taste the pleasures of a rural exis-the diplomatic corps had taken refuge. tence. Old friendships were renewed, On September 12th, in the morning, a new acquaintances begun. I can still German plane flew very, low over the recall how, in the same compartment, village and bombed it, destroying a the French ambassador, Mr. Noel, the whole section. From all sides, one British ambassador and the American heard screams, one saw the flames lit ambassador worked in the midst of by the fire bombs. Human bodies and the members of their embassies in the corpses of horses were confounded shirtsleeves a small matter. which pell-mell. From a low altitude, the contributed to the popularity of the German flier bombed and machine-
latter in America. The diplo-gunned.the unfortunate housewives mats accredited to the Polish Govern- who were making their round of the ment and their staff constituted a single and numerous family of which all members worked in the same spirit' | ** and with the same zeal.
By Konrad Wrzos
There was but one exception: the members of the Soviet embassy in- variably isolated themselves. I think that I am right if I say that Count Morsztyn, Director of the Protocol Ser- vices of the Polish Foreign Ministry, market, the bombs cut open their bas- who work untiringly night and day to
see that everyone was comfortable, kets, scattering wares and public on received the thanks of all with the all sideş; then the plane turned furi- exception of the Soviet diplomats. Allously towards the sole street of the
village. the others, nobles and descendants of old families, cheerfully accepted the inevitable disadvantages of this forced villegiatura; the representatives of the great republic of the working classes complained of everything. They also kept themselves strictly to themselves, rather surprising on the part of Rus-
sians. :
The risks of the inhabitants were shared by the diplomats, with the ex- ception, of course, of those who had fled the day before.
On September 17th, the Russians entered Poland; it was at the moment when the Poles began to retrench themselves behind a line of defence As for the passports, this raised a facing the German troops, Stabbed in considerable amount of dust. When a the back, the Poles were unable to de- diplomatic. passport is issued in Paris fend themselves against two enemies; or London, it is done with a full know-the Germans from the front, the Rus- ledge of facts; it is given to him in slan traitors at their rear. Mr. whose name it is issued. At Berlin and Charonoff had informed Moscow that Moscow, on the other hand, passports the propitious moment had come. of any nationality are established for anyone. One and the same spy can be simultaneously in possession of several identities. At the Soviet embassy in Warsaw, there were Germans who, with Russian passports, travelled as Soviet diplomatic agents.
But let us return to Kazimiers. In the night of September 8th, the Polish
received the news Protocal
of
the lightning advance of the German troops. It was decided to evacuate the the direction of diplomatte corps in the eastern frontier, and early on the 7th, the luxurious cars took the road. The German wireless has described in detail the route taken by the diplo matic corps, which, during the final days of the war, made its quarters at
In the sector occupied by the Rus- glans, the communists defiled with Red flags bearing the sickle and the ham- mer. In the German sector, the agents of the Gestapo unmasked themselves. In a war that was more Ideological than is generally thought, the con- quest of a country was effected first by the corruption of thought, then by propaganda and espionage, finally by arms...
The German agents; Installed for some time in Poland as waiters, taxi- drivers or in other seemingly harmless professions, had suddenly "begun to speak German, These were the same persons avho, before the aggression, had constantly raised insidious ques- (Continued on Page 14)
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