Evening Standard

Britain owes a big debt to the Poles

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JAKUB Krupa doesn’t talk in my name in his article [“Poles will not forget British hospitalit­y in days of exile”, November 13]. If anybody, it’s the British who should not forget who gave them the secret of Enigma, who helped them fight the Germans in the Second World War and who the British betrayed in Jalta. All we got after the war was the bill to pay for using your aeroplanes and fuel during the Battle of Britain. So why Krupa calls for us Polish to say Dziekuje — “thank you” — is a mystery to me. Daniel Nowakowski

IT’S great that Jakub Krupa celebrates Polish-English amity. So do I, and I am delighted that there are so many Poles here. But why has Poland not taken the British side in the Brexit negotiatio­ns? Poles should stand by their traditiona­l ally, the UK.

Hugo de Burgh

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