VI. REPATRIATION ORGANIZATION IN POLAND

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VI, REPATRIATION ORGANIZATIONS IN POLAND
The Presidium of.the Council of Ministers, Presidium
Rady Ministrow (PRM), the supreme ruling body of the Warsaw
Government, has appointed a Government Plenipotentiary for
Repatriation Affairs to coordinate the implementation of
the resolution on care for repatriates returning to Poland.
It reportedly has also opened a special center devoted to
persuading emigres to return home.
The new organization presumably, directs a secret insti-
tation concerned with the repatriation campaig4 and known
to the public as the Department of Affairs of Polonia
Abroad,;. Situated in the building housing the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, it maintains a cover of respectability,.
yet it reportedly is a branch of the secret police.
To implement the official program and announcements,
unofficial groups have established organizations, the most
important of which is the high-level Association for Liaison
with Poles Abroad, "Polonia.11
"Polonia" was organized in Warsaw by a group of.persons
representing various cultural, social, and scientific
organizations and several former organizers in Polish
emigre. 'centers abroad. It was first publicized in October
155 and ..is one of the latest moves in the Polish
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intensified repatriation campaign. The announced objec-
tives of.the Association are to consolidate the bonds
linking Poles abroad with the homeland and to strengthen
the ties of "friendship and brotherhood" with the nations
in which the emigrants reside.
The organization has the task of maintaining contact
with and aiding the repatriation of Poles abroad. It
considers the issue of the.Oder-Nei>se frontier to be of
common interest to all Poles and a strong bond between
those at home and abroad. ,
The organization's program calls for the establishment.
of Polish language schools throughout the emigre populations
abroad and envisages the teaching of various subjects con-
cerning the homeland, such as history, geography, culture,
etc. School books and texts will be supplied from Poland
and close:contacts will be maintained with all existing
emigre organizations. 1
The organization of the "Polonia" comprises the
following offices which have been filled by "election:"
Chairman: Prof. Stanislaw KULCZYNSKI
(Deputy Marshal of the Sejm
Deputy Chairman: Four individuals, one.of
whom is Hugo,, HANKE.
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,Secretary: Szczepan STEC.*direetor of
Free Poles in France.
cadres and former chairman
of the National Council for
the training-of educational
Executive: Composed of 14 members, one
of whom is Father Dr.
Boleslaw KULAWIK,'a priest
in the Polish colony in
Executive Deputies:
France.-
Number-of members unknown,
Audit Committee: Number of members unknown.
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