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City’s Building DETROIT SUNDAY TIMES C Jun* 24, 1945—Part I,Page 5 " * The Polish ‘Trials’ Matty Sty)t| Houn; 9a. g *0 5 4 • rFEN YEARS in a Russian dun- Russians when Hitler’s troops, Ruled Unsafe geon is a sad reward for being were at last being driven back into) patriot. Germany. A *hr ee-stor \ building a* IJS- J: a - <inswold. ou ncd |>v the <n v That is what has happened to So the Poles believed, and hfcd and rumpled paitly by na\y units.* has be. n condemned by She d< - I DUY ALMOST Gen. Leopold Okulicki, com- a right to believe, they would o/nce * On* 1 of tin w alls Was declared EVERYTHING I NEED mander of Poland’s home army of more become a free people with unsafe .tnd rmj>i be rebuilt, the department Pulpit's by restored ruled defense commission of the boundaries. The bri' k stiu< lure housed the ON PEOPLE’S EASY Polish government in exile which, But when the Nazis wei/e ex- navy [tool, th* Navy Mothers t’lub arid th* hole patrol. Navy —EVEN seized mis PAYMENTS according to the latest advices, is pelled, Soviet Russia again ierr wen* assembled and led HullHI (0. t her e. Hill ’* ¦fc Tvi£ part of Poland as nothing more 4 '\v>\Vk still recognized by Great Britain «« . ’yt»*’ MY WAR BONDS! I ¦'Mr / »•, XS. ¦ i y. VMaR and the United States as the legal nor less than spoils of war;. 150 Michigan at Shelby and legitimate government of that And Soviet Russia set up a 14225 West Warren ravished and oppressed land. Communist pupp-et government 1 for Poland, and garrisoned the 1 Jitsl Vr'w'd! Eleven other Polish patriots | NEW SHIPMENT ¦ have been sentenced to lesser land with Red soldiers* and sub- terms—among them, Jan Jankow- stituted a Red Terror in Poland member gov- for the Black Terror. i Mllil!WMR | ski, himself a of the • I Moreover, these very men who E ernment in exile as its deputy have just been “trued” and sen- H p • ano trey 1 premier, and, as such, leader on his iW have h t t Moscow * 1 native soil of the Polish “under- tenced at entrapped ¦ w«vt b«< Fa"*'-' into captivity by Russian guile in 9 rp. ground” forces. ; hn Kav# been the guise of an invitation to “con- ¦ r q They are accused of “resist- fer” a to V on Polish flairs. ¦ --TV-ver-ed pe ing” instead of “trusting” Soviet ¦ / * * * ¦ fepau»;tul Russia as the “savior” of their H pi.no*.. fn" A CCUSED * 'C.ortrc*'. i country. under these circum- 19 o nc and stances of the But when has Russia given keeping home I them any cause or reason for con- army intact, Gen. Okulicki has ! fidence in her justice or in her allegedly said lie had done so, purposes? under orders from Ins superiors, # * # because the Poles wanted to pre- r THEIR country was free for 20 serve Poland’s independence and * - n years, until Soviet Russia made believed that Soviet Russia in- ¦.J ‘v- f Sr -&*> a pact with Nazi Germany, and tended to destroy it. unloosed the most terrible war in Why indeed should any Pole ages upon mankind. have believed anything else, in -JLii'tiuj.slon Hitler took half of Poland view of the repeated Russian ag- under that nefarious deal, and—- gressions? >295 People's The Polish government in exile Easy Payments when Poland had been beaten No Carrying Charge prostrate by tlie Germans —Red has appealed to Washington and Russia took the other half. London to intervene in behalf of political • Meanwhile, the Polish govern- the prisoners. This will likely have no effect. , ment found refuge abroad, leaving £Re “underground” behind. Soviet Russia will execute the Dinette Suite You’ll Enjoy! *3 s? sentences it imposed A Then, when Germany attacked has and will also dictate or dominate the gov- ; Russi i. the Poland "underground” living-dini®g room will Ex.* s<» much more ernment of Poland. i*•i3nr* helped to fight Russia's battle. attractive this suite! It’s a splendid V; > Another dark and dismal O Poles w'ere resisting the Nazi modern style, of solid oak in lovely, rich h| period of Polish subjection evi- . H,Ji on extends invaders in Poland wdnle the Red briar oak finish. ”2x41-Inch table has set in. with seats. Bright Sentiment! army wns defending itself on the dently to .71 inciies. 1 chairs padded Soviets, ’365 distant banks of the Volga and the But under the as under A YEAR TO PAY Diamond Wedding Band the czars, the indomitable spirit of P«OP e's Easy Payment Charge Kremlin was pleading with the No Carrying Charge No Carrying Poland will live on; and the 97<|'j in • democracies for a “second front” £IOO Til pages of future history the name in western Europe to save the T»ainr l l\ *-rurta\ *¦..!, de I - Okulicki may be inscribed in ;.*Pr Soviets. of Jj |i itely fine 14.kt. tr»*!«l t» ¦Mjßß_jiCM^^ljflflj?y**^y . of glory with that of j XflctftlTlH ,jg!S[r^3jL»7tP>> vs I*!1 nir nne with threw letters ^B twinkling r diamond* .«wt. in PRAMPLED POLAND became Kosciusko. denen, flanked by * QBilKnM&B«Kra^i%cfv, \ blo"om>. .Modern, lovely. 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