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6.    On July 30th, 1941, the Soviet Union concluded in London a pact with the Polish Government which was to opcn a new era of Polish-Soviet rclations aftcr an intervai of ncarly two years. Poland forgave the wrongs so recently suffeted at the hands of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Govcrnmcnt annullcd the Soviet-Gcrman treaties of 1029 partitioning the territory of Poland between these two States.

7.    In spite of this pact, the Soviet Governmcnt from the outset put into doubt the rights to Polish citizcnship of a part of the deportres from Poland (ist Decrmber, 1941) and latcr also of all other Polish exiles {ióth January, 1943), and foreed thern to acccpt Soviet citizenship. Fven the familie* of members of tlić Polish Armed Forccs in Great Britain and the Middle Fast have Ijccn denied the right of leaving Soviet territory. At the same limę the Sovict Govcmmcnt dcprivcd the Polish deportees in Russia of the materiał aid which they rcccivcd from the Polish Government as well as from British and American institutions. This was a blow particularly to the Polish children in Russia. The number of thcsc childrcn, whose names and addresses were ascertained, is nearly 80,000 and in reality it is higher. The schools and centres founded by the Polish Grwernment were closcd down or taken ovcr by Sovict authoritics, many childrcn bcing trans-lcrrcd to Sovict educational institutions where they are threatened with heing complctcly estranged from their faith and nationality.

8.    Gontrary to international law and to the Polish-Soviet Pact of July 30th, 1941, the Sovict Govemmcnt is attempting to represent the act of incorporating morc than half the area of the Polish State into the Sovict Union providcd by the Trcaty with Germany of September 28th, 1939, as the finał decision of this tcrritory’s fatc.

g. Gontrary to the additional Polish-Soviet Agreemcnt of August 14th, 1941, the Soviet Govermneni did not allow the fuli conscription lor the Polish Forces of all Polish citizens capablc of hearing arms to bc carricd out by the Polish authoritics in the Sovict Union, and put a stop to ii in the spring of 1942. The Sovict Govcrnment further reduced the food rations of the Polish Army, did not providc it with the ncccssary cquipment and rendered impossiblc the formation of military units within the l>oundaries of the Soviet Union, allhough they were destincd to fight the common German foe. By a unilateral decision of the Soviet Union, the Polish Army was foreed to cvacutc Sovict Russia.

10. In spite of rcpcatcd cnquirics of Polish diplomatic and military rcprcscntatives, the Soviet Government for a year and a half refused to supply any cxpIanations concerning the fate of roughly 9,000 Polish ołficcrs and non-commissioncd ołficcrs taken prisoner by the Soviet Armies on the territory of the Polish Rcpublic in 1939 and transferred to Russia where they should havc enjoycd the protcction of international law as prisoners of war. At the same timc scvcral lhousand Polish judges, public prosccutors and civil servants, who had liccn carricd off from Poland, had bcen placed in the prison camps of Starobielsk, KozicLsk and Ostaszków, together witłt the Polish prisoners of war.

u. Faced with the fact that on April 2fith, >943. the Sovict Union has broken ofT diplomatic rclations with Poland, the Polish communiLy in Great Britain, organLsed into the undersigned Societics, wishes to lay these facts before the opinion of the civilised world. At the same tinic it considers it its duły to dcclarc that :

(a)    The Polish Nation will never eonsent to the violation of the territorial integrity of the

Repuhlic as rccogniscd by the Allicd Powcrs on March i^th, 1923, and forming lite basLs of

all political agreements concluded between Poland and the Sovtet Union :

(b)    I hc Polish Nation will never agree to any infringemem of the sovereignty and indc-

ixrndencc of the Polish Rcpublic ;