J. Javorski, leader of the Polish Peasant Party, declared yesterday at a session of the Polish National Council–Poland’s parliament in exile–that the German nation would be held responsible for Hitler’s policy of extermination in Poland and would have to pay reparations for damages to the population.
Javorski stressed that full equality to national minorities would be accorded in the reconstructed Polish State. “The Polish peasantry is against oppression,” he said. “It has always respected and recognized the rights of others to live and freely to develop their spiritual and material values. It will maintain this policy in the same form…
“It should be clear without any doubt that we advocate that all national minorities which will find themselves in the new Polish State and who are now suffering and fighting loyally together with the Polish people should in the future be accorded the same treatment as that given the Poles.”
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