LETTER TO VISCOUNT GORT

In view of the present crisis I should like to put the following information at your disposal, as I think there might be a shortage of non-Jewish British subjects who speak Polish.

I have a considerable knowledge of Polish. I regard myself as a Pole and the only reason why I do not live in Poland is the enormous Jewish influence in the whole of Polish life, as a consequence of which there is no justice, freedom or well-being in the State of whose Kings I have the honour to be the only proper Heir.

I should be glad to put my knowledge of Polish at the disposal of His Majesty's Government, for example as a liaison officer. I am not in any way averse to the battlefield and have had a little military training.

The only thing I am averse to is working under Jews. I also think it would be advisable for me to retain as far possible a fairly free hand for the future -- because my personal popularity and prestige in Poland, where I resided in 1933, 34 and 35 might be of great use if the Poles suffered any reverses and became discouraged, in which case I would wish to go there and fight in the front line. In this connection it is idle to discount the fact that the civil side of the present Polish Government is rotten and incompetent and is not equal to the occasion.

I think I ought to inform you that I sent a written offer to Herr Hitler to speak to the Poles in favour of a Germano-Polish alliance against Russia; but I naturally consider that in allying himself with Stalin, he has betrayed the ideas he professed to be fighting for, and for which, as a monarchist, I had in any case only a qualified regard.

I am, my Lord General,
Yours sincerely
Potocki of Montalk

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Author: Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk
Published: 11 September 1939
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