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...Premier in Exile, General Wladslaw Sikorski, the cleavage with Russia was a personal tragedy. Opposition Poles in Britain and the U.S.* have attacked him ever since he defied Polish tradition and signed a Polish-Russian pact in July 1941, followed it with a friendship declaration in December 1941. A patriot, liberal enough to be anathema to rightist emigrés, Sikorski has showed great political courage in trying to deal with Russia. For a time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal. But pressure inside & outside his Government...
...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost...
...national policy devoted to building up a desire for cooperation between the United States and Russia, leading Boston newspapers have recently shown the dangerous inclination to promote anti-Russian feeling; dangerous because it is insidiously developed in news stories and not straightforwardly in editorials. Last Sunday night a Patriot's Day banquet was held in Boston. The Governor of Massachusetts, a Right Reverend Monseigneur of the Catholic Church, a Harvard professor, and a chaplain from the Harvard Army Chaplain School gave speeches. The Chaplain's address, no more outstanding than the rest, was a stern outcry against slackening of civilian...
Next day the Governor's speech was relegated to the background. Out came headlines, proclaiming "Patriot's Day Speaker Flays Communism." One article led off with the false indirect quotation that the chaplain "condemned an expediency which was muzzling those who realized that communism was as great a threat to democracy as is Nazism...
With a long Patriot's Day weekend last week, Cadet Major Jack Corrigan's Battery Z postponed its schedule RSOP and enjoyed itself for the time being. Battery Z took the field on April 21, for its first practice, and more extra drills are expected to follow...