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present Professor of the Chicago Univeraity E.F.A., nn eminent Polish Soeinlist deflngg the ^oUmŁija^-aima of the polish deraoerrts in this war.

The overwhelming ma.iorlty of the Polieh people desire that Poland be nr independent dercocratic republic. There is no Polish politicnl group w hich v.oulc ¹ nnt to give up I-ol nd^fs a tion 1 independonce. The v/i!l of the Polish pcopl' to maintr-in their national freedom ie eet-vbliehed boyond any doubt by the herciem i th y/hich thc.y fought in 1959, and contlnue their fight under TTszi occupntion r.s well H8 in nil corn^re of t,he orld• The Polish people have Iso oxpreeeed their desire for a eocinl and econ ic reconrtruction or* democrntic linea. This is shov/n by many documents v;Mch como from different braneher o i the underground troveraent.

These deroeratie and progres?ive soirations of the Polish people ere, however, oppoeed by the bureaueratlc and ml 11 tary nwchim of the govemmentin eacile and by its counterp rt in the underground. /Ule erpreeelng (porticnlmly in Gt Britain and in the U.S.A*) llp-servica to democratic princlpl.ee, t¹ is machinę ?rep re3 eyetematleniły to rpstore in P ol md the nre—war social and politicnl system. It is true thst amon# the orbinet there are ais o sinccre do^ocr, ts, TTBSra: 8 andfiiaiali8te. But in not a single issue of importpnee have t ey been nble to assert m independent >olicy of ^? 'Oir own. Ml nt‘.empts ot e och a noliey were c oked off by the or. osi tion nd sabot -gs of of the dinlomats, the bureaucmcy i the mi lit ary, all of ich have been trken over from the rer.ctionary pre-v/er regitn. Thns General Sikorski V7 n s imnblt' to prevsil w i th his po.licy of friendship with Czechoeloyakin and the ; oviet Union, md finally cn. itulated before the entrehehed fornir inherited from the past. After his de&th tlie