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Moscow, Mar oh 26th, 102)4. /T'SS/ A fuller report of the speech of Stefan Jen&riahowaki, Meiriber of the Presidium of the Central Board of the Union ot Poliah patriota, at the Moscow meeting on the l^Othe anniverseiy of the Poli. h natleniał liberati n uprising, is given in a TASS message together with other apeeehes.

Jenrichowski refe: red to the wide support givon to Kościuszko, leader of the uprising, froiu all sections of the Poliah people, and addedj

TKAIT083 TO P.)LIoH KOHa ._

Only a handfnl of traitors* who eVd their eetatcs a...d inoo es dearer than the welfare of the natton, reraained eutaide the unity of the people, Th.ls Tjan the Targowic Ccmfederation, who had been selling Tóland out. Itn chiefa §£.C!z en sny lotooki, one of the greatest Poliah nóbles in the Ukrainę, Hetman Xavior Brąnipki and Hetman Saverin Rzewuski - left the country to hide imder tne wirig of Lhe invaders, The insurgents court pasaed the death nentenoe in defauit on t Oift.

But a /.hole pack of traitors of Iow er alloy from the Targowi a e Jo;.federation was caught unauares by the revolt. The people s yea^eaace nai3 e^acted on the e traitor To put into pructloe the slogan "The People s ecurlty is the "Hiprcme Law", a ^wHi$L Criininal ° ,'urt^M was createć in the fi ret days of the rewolt, This court did not draw bach from execution of Hetcians Oszarowcki nd Zabello nd iii shop i^ssakowski wrho had betrayed the people, ihese traitors calururiiated the ..atriota, wiking the revolt ap pe.o.r as a tool of foreign intrigue.

Sr-AKD^-j PA IuIAR 'jJODAI

How faioiliar this sladering of the patriuts sound to us today, one hundred and fifty years lat er, Today the words from the maubers of the Poliah emigre JiowmmenA in London with reference co tlte Polish gueriilas and soldiers resolve<3 to fight Foland t age old enemy - G-ermany - on the ov±et-iiennan Pront, constimte just ouoh sl&nders.

The descendants and neirs of the magnat es, wfeo o e hundred and fifty years ago sold Pole out to Tsarish in order to preserve their own po-sess:l.t>ns in outtying districts, today help the murtal enemy of the Poliah people.- hit leci te detaany - in the nair.e of the preaeryation of the Polish (Sj^iido^Tiers estutes, in Łne nenie of doini.nation over Ukr&inian and B.yelorussian peasants.

FRKKIWk 'OR KN1TRR PEOHiB.

On the eve oh the uprising Kościuszko saidj ^ł,I will not fi ht for the gentry alone, I desire freedom for the entire people, and will sacrifioe ;..y life for thax and nothing less." He proclaimed the principie cf the sovereignty of the people and atood on guard over this sovercignty. He regarded h ima elf only as the. s erysnt of the people, Koaoiuszko 8 attitude to the peasantr ■ deuionstrates -iis prx)foundl7^ demooratic stand. The peasants who constituted the great ma.Jority of the people then l.ived under a cruel burden of taxes and ooi*vee, in horrible poverty and 'unorance.    Kosc'.ua’:ko

realised that without attracting the peasant msses to the stmggle for the cause of the people there oould be .o 3trong democratic Polana. It ia elear to us that today, as in Kościuszko s tizue» a stroiig democratic Poland cojmot exi:;t v,i thont an limuediate aolutiun of the peaslnt probieni.

Po Land ^vs place is aiaong the dcmocratio peoples, in the cconp of the stru./gle

for freedom.