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M. RACZIEWICZ, President of Poland, now in exile in France recently gave an interview, the first he has given to a British newspaper's representative, to Douglas Williams, "The Daily Telegraph" Special Correspondent with the Polish Army.

Declaring his confidence in the full restoration of his country, the President said:

""The Russians cannot stay in Poland after Germany has been beaten. They will have too many troubles of their Own."

Some units of the Polish Army now training in France will be ready to fight on the Western Front in a few months. Several divisions will be at Gen. Gamelin's disposal by the end of the year.

Despite official German protests, the Vatican City radio broadcast on Saturday further eye-witness descriptions of Nazi atrocities in Poland. The broadcast was jammed by a German station.

WIFE FREE AFTER 4 WEEKS' DISGUISE

By DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent

With the Polish Army in

France.

and penalties, of the mass imprison- ments in concentration camps of the

Lest minds of the country,

"Poland," he said, "will survive this, her third martyrdom, and will emerge stronger and greater than

The

President's welcome

was

At his desk in the sunny study of the old chateau near Angers which has become the seat of the Polish Government in exile, before." M. Vladislav Racziewicz, the simple in the extreme. The room, President of Poland, accorded high ceilinged and painted whic me the first interview he has with gold chandelier suspended in ever given to a British corres-the middle, is on the ground floor of

the chateau. pondent.

The ten acres of ground surround- ing the chateau has been granted extraterritorial status by the French Government, and lo-day this little pocket-handkerchief at French soil, foaned by France to her gallant ally in the hour of her distress, is the Polisli soil that Poland only plece of can call her own in Europe,

On the shoulders of President Raczlewicz has fallen the task of re- building a Polish State on alien soil. He works and yes in his chateau, a handsome 18th-century mansion, copied after the Petit Trianon, com- plete with orangery and long, tree- bordered alleys.

In the town of Angers, a few miles away, a number of foreign Govern ments accredited to Poland have set up thele chancelleries, through which diplomatic business continues ធ though they were still in Warsaw. CONFIDENCE IN FUTURE Restoration of Rights'

Occasionally M. Rocziewicz lit a cigarette, smoking it in a long am- her holder, or rose from his chalr and slowly paced the room as he dellberately formed the sentences with which he radiated his confidence and that of his peuple.

"One thing I would specially like you to write," he said, "and that is the great kindness shown to me by the British Government, and above all else, the help given by the British Churge d'Affaires in a Baltic coun- try in arranging the escape of my wife from Poland.

"We had become separated in the course of the German attack, and as soon as I was named President, my and by the end of the year it was wife, of course, immediately became proscribed. To escape the Russians, who were everywhere searching for her, she had to remain in disguise, for four weeks before she could be snuggled to safety across the fron- fier to a neutral country."

Sir Howard Kennard, the British | ARMY'S PROGRESS Ambassador, is Installed in a small suburban villa, while in other houses i Somo Units Nearly Ready

aluns after the Germans had been

in the town are the French and 1 asked the President what he American Ambassadors. Other coun- thought would happen to that part

Including Egypt. Turkey and Ezechoslovakia, are represented. of Poland now occupied by the Rus- Italy and Belgium have as yet no defeated by the Allies He replied Ministers. is in sented at

Alle being engaged |

the Papal Nuncio recovering that portion of Poland. formerly al

"The Russians," he suld, "cannot in visiting concentration camps in stay there after-Germany-has-been- Rumania and Poland, in the hope of

beaten. They will have too many ameliorating conditions.

troubles of their own in their own Around the President are 'grouped as members of the Polish Govern-country to be able to hold foreign ment men else

soll by force of arms. have managed to es- "The crumpling of Germany will cape from Poland.

The President is a tall, spare man,mean the defeat of Russia, and once and vigorous, despite his we have recovered our Polish terri- gre serious ont of the confidence to us."

attack of pleurisy. He tury stolen from us by Germany, that port seized by Russia will retur

recent is the

of his people In the eventual restora-

The President spoke at length tion of their rights and the restitution about the new Polish Army now be- of their country.

He wasted no tine in repining for he said, should be ready for service ing formed in France. Some units,, the past in futi

ast in futile sorrow for the cutastrophe that has overwhelmed at the front within a few months, his country, or in endeavouring to and by the end of he year it was hoped that several divisions would justify the inevitable defeat that the be trained to play their part in the Polish army suffered at the hands of fight against Germany. vastly superior enemy forces. UNBROKEN SPIRIT

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"If," he said to me, speaking percourse, to the Supreme Command off and delivered to his successor, King fect French, "we firmly believe in Gen. Gamelin. They include artil- Sigismund August II. our ultimate victory over Germany ety and cavalry,

lery and the restoration of the country of battalions. Poland, it is not only because we The previous day I had inspected from Russia, who stole them in the know we are fighting in alliance with France and Britain, to-day the one of the several Polish training partition some 140 years before.

comps

that have been established in

By the post-war treaty of 1920, all tivo greatest meral forces in the France. Here several thousand of such treasures were ordered to be world, but also because we are con acers

and

undergoing returned to Poland, but the com vinced that the struggle is

boing stringent military training prior to missioners had great trouble in the most sacred their formation as a unit in a Polish locating the tapestries. waged to defend idents of all humanity.

division. "For that reason we cannot but triumph in the end.

are

Their ranks include officers who They finally found all but the 20 have "If the spirit of the Polish people Poles engaged in diplomatie post-ing, until by a happy chance they escaped from camps in Poland, largest pieces. These remained miss. remains unbroken in the face of the tlons or in business in Paris or Lon-were discovered, thanks to the assist minat cynical oppression and coward-don, and miners and farmers from ance of Sir Robert Hodgson, at that ly cruelties, it is because we firmly the colony of Poles, who for many time Charge d'Affaires of the British believe that in this struggle between

years have inbublied the northern good and evil the forces

ern! Embassy In Moscow. which, while pretending to dominate the port of France.

the world, have again and again proved men, making light of the war-time

They are a ne, hardy body of Found in the Kremlin themselves unable to dominate even conditions, sleeping, working

Having gone to the Kremlin one the lowest instincts inherent in their training in 'the bitter cold that comes day on an official mission, Sir Robert

nature,

his guide. with

became separated from the cast wind sweeping across Lost in the gloomy corridors, he incapable of aggression the high plateaux. rendered through the rivilised naft. United forces of the

The day I was there the tempera-Anally found himself in a disused ture was at 15 or 20 degrees below chamber Alled with enormous pack- whole point of freezing point, and yet the detach-the omelal label of the Hermitage president's

ing cases, Each was marked with view is dominated by hope for the ments were out exercising as usual, Museum, and so large in size as th- future. It is only a matter of time busy with rifle drill, with machine viously to contain large pictures or he insisted, "before Germany is de-gun practices, with the manipulation Immense tapestries, feated and Poland can go back to her of "75's," or plain march discipline.

own

and

The

own.

will be definitely crushed

"Our hearts are with the present Famous Tapestries Saved miseries of our people, ground under.

the heel of German despotism, and

and

Later in the day, meeting his Polish colleague, M. Darowski, he Before taking my departure I asked mentioned his experience. Investiga- we concentrate all our efforts on whether the Government in its. es-on proved that the cases did contain building a Poland that will shore cupe from Poland had been able to the missing tapestries that the Rus- with the Allies the ultimate triumph save any national treasures in addi-sians had sought to hide to prevent of right over might." <j:

Lon to the gold reserves, belleved to their return to Poland. amount to some. £10,000,000,

Lady Warrender, wife of the was told that apart from the Financial Secretary to the British sold, the Government had succeeded War Office, who has organised a fund He spoke of the brutalities that in rescuing the famous tapestries, 130 in England for the supply of com- have been reported from Warsaw. in number, constituting one of Po- forts to Polish troops, training in to the Government sihre It had to land's greatest treasures, which were Franco, has just paid a visit to evacuate Poland, of the many oppres- made in Arras ently in the 18th con- Angers, where she was received by sions of the people, of the executions tury by order of King Sigismund I.. Mme. Hacziewlez.

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