Poland Foreign Policy

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, distancing himself from the government he helped create, said that a reunified Germany poses no danger to Poland. He also said he wants Soviet troops out as soon as possible. The Solidarity-led government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki has adopted a more tolerant attitude toward Soviet withdrawal, saying the 40,000 troops in Poland should leave only after creation of a new security arrangement for Europe.

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, distancing himself from the government he helped create, said that a reunified Germany poses no danger to Poland. He also said he wants Soviet troops out as soon as possible. The Solidarity-led government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki has adopted a more tolerant attitude toward Soviet withdrawal, saying the 40,000 troops in Poland should leave only after creation of a new security arrangement for Europe.

Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki has nominated a Catholic journalist as his envoy for sensitive talks on normalizing relations with West Germany, the Solidarity daily Gazeta Wyborcza said Tuesday. Mieczyslaw Pszon, a commentator on Polish-German relations for the Krakow Catholic weekly newspaper, is the first non-Communist to assume a crucial role in Poland's foreign policy since the Communists took power after World War II.

Eastern Europe is ready now to look beyond its first democratic elections and prepare to enter the community of nations its people have yearned to join for two generations. But don't look for any overnight miracles. That, at least, is the word from those who ought to know--the men and women now charged with rebuilding societies in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany.