Poles Who Are Not Poles

The fact that Nazi Germany's assault on Poland's independence was the occasion of our declaring war, the bestial treatment of Polish citizens by the occupying'power, and a realization of the outrageous partitions of that country in the farther past have stirred the people of Great Britain to a determination that Poland shall be again restored and justice done in her regard. And In particular the enthusiasm (not unmixed with romanticism and a rather highly-coloured rhetoric) with which over years numerous Catholics have been foremost in upholding the Polish cause has brought to that cause an atmosphere of sacredness and mystique.It is the more regrettable, therefore, that the people of Great Britain in general should have in certain respects an inadequate conception of the Polish situation : that they should (as so many of them do) imagine that the inhabitants of Poland are an almost entirely homogeneous people, one in culture, religion and history; that they should believe the difficulty about Eastern PoTand to be a straight issue between a united Poland on the one hand and the U.S.S.R. on the other

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