Abstract

A Settlement for Poland

The article says that both Poland and the Soviet Union desires that Germans quickly move out of Poland. Both peoples are determined to prevent re-emergence after the war of the German military menace. By accepting the Soviet offer to support the transfer to a "strong and independent" Poland of most of Last Prussia and of Silesia up to the Order, Poland would become dependent on Russian assistance, but it would gain a Russian commitment replacing the perennial menace of a Russo-German anti-Polish deal such as was consummated in 1939. The transfer of territory would also help Poland to solve its main domestic problem by absorbing in a vast industrial development and in new settlements in the north the mass of its landless peasantry.