PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS AMONG THE LUSATIAN SORBS

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• Publication Date: June 30, 1947
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'? . The Sorbs (Wends) of Upper and Lower Lusatia are 'being subjected
simultaneously to a number of propaganda campaigns 9 some of them
nationalistic and some of foreign inspiration. These highly
divergent campaigns are suggesting the following courses to the
Sorbs:
a that a completely free and autonomous Lusatian Sorb
state be demanded immediately,
b. that the Lusatian Sorb area be made a United Nations
mandate,,
co that the area be made either a Czechoslovak or a Polish
protectorate,,
d. that the area be placed under a joint Czechoslovak-
Polish administration'
e., that Lusatia be annexed outright by Czechoslovakia,
f. that Lusatia be annexed outright by Poland ,
g0D that the Sorbs be evacuated from the area and resettled
either In Poland or the Czechoslovak regions formerly
occupied by the Sudeten Germans.
All the above proposals, however dissimilar, agree that the
Sorbs must be removed from German control,,
2. The Polish propagandists are determined to see that the Sorb
question does not become an exclusively Czechoslovak affair,,
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claim to the area and that the Sorbs are more sympathetic to
Czechoslovakia-. Consequently, the Poles are backing the demand
for outright Sorb independence rather than for annexation by
Poland. In this Plan, they appear already to have some support
from Yugoslavia m
Some months ago a rternor*an.dum on the Sorb question was sent to
the Polish National Asserbly by joint action from the Cracow
Union of Friends of the Lusatian Sorbs, the Slavic Committee
In Poland, the Society for Polish-Soviet Friendship, the Polish-
Bulgarian Society, the Polish-Yugoslav Society, and the Polish-
Czechoslovak Society. This memorandum, after reiterating that
a quarter of a million Slavs who had resisted Germanization for
fifteen centuries were still a part of Germany, requested that
the Assembly take the following steps: demand autonomy for the
Sorbs; obtain the right for Poland to maintain in Bautzen a
certain number of special representatives to work for a closer
cooperation between Lusatia and Poland; der?and admission of
,usatia into the TJ; Interest all Slavic nations and especially
the USSR, in the we? faie of the Sorbs.
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