The Archive · 1939

Poland Approaching Soviets

Warsaw, May 15.

Poland has decided to intensify her efforts to come to a closer understanding with the Soviet Union, reliable quarters reported last night.

M. Miroslav Arciszewski, head of the Foreign Office Political Department, will go to Moscow soon to continue negotiations for closer Soviet-Polish economic and political cooperation.

Polish circles indicated that Poland would not seek a military agreement with the Soviet Union for the present.—United Press.

Mussolini Not Mediating Paris, May 14.

Signor Benito Mussolini has renounced all plans to act as mediator in the Polish~German dispute and "serious events are near in Danzig,"

Robert Lorette, Berlin correspondent of the "Paris Soir" reported today.

"The Danzig Senate, while pledge ing itself to respect Polish interests, will proclaim the Free City's return to the Reich, it is stated here," he cabled from Berlin, "From that moment on the frontiers of Danzig will become the frontiers of Germany, It the Poles intervene, they will violate these German borders and will thus prevent their Anglo-French guarantees from being put into operation because the latter provide for Anglo-French aid only in the event that Polish independence is threatened.

"Authoritative circles in the German capital are so sure of their success in this scheme that they are already preoccupying themselves with the problem of the Polish Cor-rider," M. Lorette concluded his despatch.—Havas.

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