REQUESTS
Liberation of al priests imprisoned and detained in the USS
2. Sojourn- permits for at least 105 priest according to the note of
Ambassador Kot.
3. Sojourn -permit and freedom of religious work for a chaplain of the
Embassy.
4. The release of confiscated religious objects.
5. The right to fulfill their religious duties for the above mentioned
priests attached to the Polish Delegations or working in localities of
concentration of the Polish population, with full right to circulate on a
given territory, without the obligation of organizing religious
communities and free of charge.
Example:
In Tobolsk, Father Jagielnicki was charged rb. 50,000, equalling at
official rate of exchange 59, 435 for the 59,435 for the exercise of his
religious duties and rb. 200,000 ($37,740) for permission of doing so till
the end of the year.
6. The right of religious service in closed apartments of Polish citizens
or in the house put to their disposal.
7. Permits of stay free circulation and of religious exercise should be
signed by the polish authorities in the USSR and countersigned by central
and local Soviet authorites.
8. In case of the arrest of a Polish Priest, the Soviet authorities should
at once inform the Polish Embassy of the fact.
September 16th, 1942.