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    "ocrText": "TOP\nDECLASSIFIED\nE.O. 11052, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (R)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1872\nNARS\nDate\n7-27-75\n-2-\nto make concessions now in order better to advance\ntheir cause later. He expects the Soviets to CO-\noperate with the Western Powers to a limited extent\nuntil US and UK troops are withdrawn from the Conti-\nnent and until the USSR has obtained substantial US\nand UK credits and assistance, also squeezing a heavy\nprice for their proper behavior in the Far East.\nThanks to such US and UK aid, Anders thinks the Russians\nwill amaze the world with the speed of their rehabil-\nitation and that within 8 or 10 years the Red Army\nwould be on the march against the West. He hopes the\nUS and UK will \"eventually abandon the wishful think-\ning which is now controlling their policies and rec-\nognize the reality that Stalin like Hitler will not\nstop but can only be stopped\".\nAnders added that in all honesty he could not\nadvise any decent Pole to return to Poland now and\nthat he himself preferred to keep his excellent army\nof 100,000 men together in Italy to await developments.\nSo long as no agents of the new governments try to\npropagandize his troops, he will hold them in good\norder.\nThe entire Moscow press of June 27 devoted two\ncolumns to a press conference by Gomulka and Mikola-\njczyk. Gomulka said that elections would probably not\nbe held until Poles return from abroad as he thought\nthe overwhelming majority of them would do. The post-\nwar population of Poland would be less than in 1939,\nthough the number of Poles themselves in the country\nwould be larger. Poles are striving to establish a\ncountry of one nationality. Asked whether the future\nelections would be conducted on the basis of a one-\nparty bloc or on a party basis, Gomulka said this was\na question to be decided by the parties themselves but\nthat \"naturally with full freedom certain parties might\nwish to unite their efforts\". In answer to a question\non Poland's national wealth, Mikolajczyk emphasized\nthat more than 90% of the Polish Merchant fleet and\nmore than 95% of the Bank of Poland's gold reserve were\nabroad.\nSoviet"
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