Word: morawski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikolajczyk writes: "Stalin . . . was angrier than I had ever seen him. He turned on Osobka-Morawski and Bierut [Lublin Poles] and roared a demand that they immediately renew their agreement to the frontier that had been established [secretly in 1944] without the knowledge of the legal Polish government in London. They hurriedly complied. Stalin then turned on Molotov and rebuked him thunderously. 'You had no right to agree to let these people use those waters for their shipping,' he stormed. 'I will not have it! I will not have foreign spies spying on Konigsberg! You know very...
...does an unprincipled politician get along in a Communist-dominated country? Should he join 'em or fight 'em? Poland's Edward Osubka-Morawski tried it both ways, lost both times. The Communists made him Premier of Poland and last week they forced him out of Polish politics. His is the case history of an opportunist...
When war began, Osubka-Morawski was a small-fry organizer in the left wing of Poland's Socialist Party. In the wartime underground he teamed with the Communists, went to Moscow, and returned as Socialist Premier in the Moscow-created provisional government. To repay the Reds he hatched an inept, ill-timed and abortive plot to merge his Socialists with the Communists. His blundering displeased the Communists; his intent angered the Socialists. Osubka-Morawski was demoted from Premier to the rank of Minister of Public Administration. Communist displeasure deepened when he snatched a choice government apartment coveted by Secret...
...Osubka-Morawski then decided to fight the Communists; he moved over to the Socialist right wing and opposed the Socialist-Communist merger which he had once tried to bring...
Last week in Warsaw the Socialists, under Communist orders, purged their party officials to pave the way for the merger which was now a certainty, thanks to manipulators more skillful than Osubka-Morawski had been. First to be bounced off the Socialists' Central Committee was Osubka-Morawski. His ministerial job and his housing situation also looked uncertain...