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    "ocrText": "J. 333305MONO-State\nGalley 234\nUNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF\n\"I-The Polish Government shares the attitude taken by the\nGovernments of the United States and Great Britain that territorial\nquestions should be settled only after the termination of hostilities.\nThe Polish Government is ready to reach an amicable settlement of\nthe Polish-Soviet controversy which has arisen as a result of the claims\nof the USSR to the eastern territories of the Polish Republic and will\naccept any one of the methods foreseen by international law for the\njust and fair solution of the controversy with the participation of both\nparties concerned. Moreover, the Polish Government is decided to\nconclude with the USSR an alliance guaranteeing the security of both\nstates and closely to collaborate with the USSR in the framework of a\ngeneral international organization of security and of the economic\norganization of the States of Central-Eastern Europe.\n\"Under no circumstances will the Polish Government recognize\nunilateral solutions, mindful of the fact that Poland, belonging as she\ndoes to the family of United Nations in the common struggle for\nfreedom of the world, has made enormous sacrifices of her most\nprecious values and has lost practically one-fifth of her population\nfallen in battle, murdered in penal camps, in Ghettos or deceased\nin prisons, in exile or in labor camps.\n\"The Polish Government is convinced that the simultaneous\nestablishment and guaranteeing of the over-all territorial status of the\nPolish State, the solution of the controversy with the USSR, the grant\nto Poland of territories to which she has rightful claim situated to the\nNorth and the West of her frontiers, the insurance of her real inde-\npendence and full right to organize her internal life in accordance with\nthe will of the Polish Nation untrammeled by any foreign interven-\ntion,-is a vital matter not only for Poland, but for the whole of\nEurope.\n\"II.-Should the Soviet Government, notwithstanding the insistent\nefforts of the Polish Government, refuse to enter into a voluntary\nunderstanding, the Polish Government, desirous of insuring internal\npeace and freedom to its country, suggests that a Military Inter-\nAllied Commission should be created under whose control the local\nadministration of Poland could perform its functions until it will be\npossible for the legal Polish Government to take over authority.\n\"Such a Commission should have at its disposal military contin-\ngents of the States represented on it. The statutes of the Commission\nand the principles upon which the local administration would be\nbased should be established in detail in agreement with the Polish\nGovernment. The Polish Government additionally stresses that the\nauthorities of the Polish Republic, abolished by the German occupying\nauthorities in violation of the stipulations of the IV-th Hague Con-\nvention of 1907,¹ in effect continued to function underground and\n1 For the text of this convention regarding the laws and customs of war 'on\nland, signed at The Hague October 18, 1907, see Department of State Treaty\nSeries No. 539, or 36 Stat. 2277.\nshould constitute the foundation of the administration of the country.\n\"After the return to Poland of her Supreme State Authorities as\nwell as of her citizens who are at present outside her frontiers due to\nwar events, elections will be held on the basis of a universal, secret,\nequal, direct and proportional electoral law, giving to all political\nparties full freedom of electoral action, and to all citizens equal and\nfree right of expressing their will.\n\"The Polish Government will retain its authority until the con-\nvocation of the Parliament (Sejm) on the above mentioned principles\nand the creation in Poland of a new legal government.\n\"III.-The Polish Government trusts that the United States\nGovernment will not take part in any decisions concerning the Allied\nPolish State taken without the participation and consent of the\nPolish Government.\n\"The Polish Government is convinced that at the meeting of the\nthree great Powers the United States Government will express its\ndecision of not recognizing in Poland accomplished facts and particu-"
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