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Grim Correctness. In this, whatever their motives, they were probably somewhat more realistic than the Allied governments. Stalin's intentions had been perfectly clear for months. He had high-pressured the London Poles, in the person of ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, to join his Lublin Committee-on Lublin's terms. He had informed his Teheran colleagues of his decision to establish a friendly regime in Poland. When they asked him to wait a little while, he had graciously acceded. But he had never changed his plans...
...administrative posts (when they played ball with Lublin), or gone to jail (when they did not). In London the Government in Exile was powerless. Premier Tomasz Arciszewski could merely growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants"-a new version of the "enemy of the people," the formula that Russia uses to indict Nazis and collaborators. Perhaps Britain believed that Mikolajczyk could still participate in the Lublin Government, thus effecting a compromise between...
However, when Mr. Mikolajczyk [former Premier of the Polish Government in Exile] went to Russia, he found W. Averell Harriman, the American Ambassador, a silent neutral observer while Premier Stalin sat as judge and jury and Mr. Churchill had the role of public prosecutor. It was Mr. Churchill who did all the arguing for Premier Stalin at that latest Moscow discussion about Poland's future boundaries, diplomatic informants say. When Mr. Mikolajczyk pleaded for mercy by asking that Vilna and Lwow be included within Poland's frontiers, it is said, Mr. Molotov interrupted him by saying: 'There...
...Passing of Poland. In London the Polish Cabinet crisis simmered. Premier Tomasz Arcizewski was trying to hold together a Cabinet of anti-Russian Socialists, democrats and laborites without the participation of ex-Premier Mikolajczyk's big Peasant Party. Arcizewski was not continuing the negotiations with Russia. Said the Manchester Guardian: "As the new Prime Minister intimated a change of policy, little doubt exists that he will have to proceed in an atmosphere of international isolation...
Last week Stanislaw Mikolajczyk tired first, resigned his post as Premier of the Polish Government in Exile. Out of the London Polish Government with him went the Polish Peasant Party, the strongest of the four coalition parties which make it up. President Wladislaw Rackiewicz asked Vice Premier Jan Kwapinski, a Socialist (and Russophobe), to form a new government. But with the Peasant Party gone, it did not look as if he would succeed. For ex-Premier Mikolajczyk there were two courses open: 1) he could go into permanent political exile; 2) he could join the Lublin Government, for whom...