From Our Special Correspondent
Daglinworth, Glos, Aug 18: Twenty years of uncertainty are likely to end soon for nearly 2,000 Poles exiled in Britain. The hutted camps in which they are living are to be closed, their job done.
Like a modern tribe of Israel, many Poles have been in the wilderness since the beginning of the war. Gradually, places like Swindon, which has already housed over 100, are providing them with the next best thing to a promised land — a roof, front door, and sink they can call their own. About 600, however, will stay put: the old and disabled who are in a hostel of Stover, Devon.
There are seven other communities. One of them is here at Daglinworth, which set out