GERMANY: Again, Partition

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Adolf Hitler last week let it be known what he was going to do with his part of Poland:

1) Pomorze (the Polish Corridor), Posen and Polish Upper Silesia, provinces which belonged to Germany before the Treaty of Versailles, will become integral parts of the Greater Reich.

2) Two other small regions, near Kalisz and Ciechanov, to the north and west of Warsaw, which used to be in Russian Poland, will be annexed for "strategic reasons."

3) A new buffer State between the Soviet Union and the Reich, "protected" by Germany and about one-third the size of what was Poland before Sept. 1, will be formed around Warsaw. Government: to be announced.

4) Czestochowa, famous for its Black Madonna shrine, and Cracow, where the Polish kings are buried, will be allowed to remain in the buffer State as a mark of German respect for Polish religious and patriotic feelings.

5) An all-Jewish reservation will be set up around Lublin to "solve the Jewish problem."

6) The 6,519,100 Poles who now live in the annexed provinces will also be stuffed into the buffer.