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XeAe9e December . - page three the Soviet Union with its Western-most satellites, thus opening the economic and strategic way to the Weste- One of these autostradas will join the South-West to the North-Kast of Poland, the mining district of Wroclaw (Breslau) on the Oder to Sialystok and the Bielorus:ian bordere in this way a line is opened that reaches on the one side into the industrial areas of Bohemia, Moravia and Saxony and - via Silesia and the Polish plains - to the heart of the Soviet Union, Mowcow and Leningrad.~ The second huge road will have to join the Baltic to the Biack Sea area, cutting throughout Europe in an North-West to SouthEast direction. This autoroute is to start at tle harbours of Gdynia and Sopote It will lead to Warsaw, Lublin and, crossing the new PolishUSSR border line, will continue on to Lwow, Stanislaw, Kolomyjae In this area it joins two other strategic lines: the important new railroad project joining Russia through the Carpatho-Umraine with Hungary, ölovaki and the West (previous dispatches have mentioned that line and its first-class strategic importance) and also the Dnjestr valley line, - following the Carpath mountains and leading to Odeasa. — ine third main autosstrada project will lead through Poland in an Last-West directi It will start at Kostczyn on the Oder (where it makes the link to Berlin), lead to Poznan on the Warta, to Warsaw, Siedlce, and Brest where it enters the Bjelorsasian Republic ana the ar where now the huge Pripet and Dnjepr projects are under waye — “he most interesting part of this total haghway project is the fact that it is not planned as an exclusively Pokish affair, but very clearly as a combined GermanPolish enterprise. Our East German observer reports that early in September, experts from the Warsaw government have come to Saxony with the mission of selecting 150 young German engineers, offering them a long-time working contract, for a huge public work program to be carried out in Poland. This drafting of German specialists had been preceded of course by an agreement between the Warsaw and the Pankow governments, and was powerfully supported by official German frarty propaganda. The engeneers selected for the work were informed that, as Germans, they were called upon to fulfill a great mission: a twentybillion zloty project was foreseen that — in a period of ten years should transform Poland into the "model state of socialist culture® in a democratic Central Europes Outstanding experts from the Soviet Union, Poland and Germany would cooperate in carrying out that project, directing the work of huge labor bataillons. The total project would include Poland's new water and highway system, the construction of industrial, plants and the building of new “socialist cities". ss hese two reports - one from Western and one from Eastern Germany - prove that in the overall Soviet planning, Poland plays a decisive role. It has to be linked by friendship and economic ties to the other European satellites. It has to become a wetiuk common project and the experimental field for a model communistic Luropean state; and thus attract the other satellites towards the Moscow ideal. This mission to be fulfilled by Poland explains the intensity of the political] campaign in that country, the electoral preparations and the show of popular unanimity that had to be presented to the world. The propaganda campaign, accompanying ihe Polish elections in the other satellite count, ; 36 3