Word: polese
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Winston Churchill, speaking sternly to the London Poles, also spoke sternly to Franklin Roosevelt. It is high time, said the Prime Minister (in parliamentary language), that the U.S. Government quit its role as a eunuch in world affairs (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Other British papers hinted that the Government might recall Sir Owen O'Malley, its Ambassador to the Polish Government in Exile. As Sir Owen is in London, this would be somewhat like calling him from across the street. But it would be a grave blow to the London Poles...
The Kremlin strategy in the Polish question had been basically simple. It was: to tire out both the London Poles and the Allies by patiently insisting on a solution which the Poles could not accept. Since Russia was in possession and had the power, she could afford patience.
But not only Russia was to blame for the Polish situation. In the absence of any effective check, Stalin was acting realistically from motives of hard self-interest. To the very end, the Poles had hoped that the U.S. would exert pressure in their behalf. But last week Under Secretary...
If the Poles, caught and crushed between the devastating German and Russian juggernauts in 1939, had yielded up their national ghost, few could have blamed them. In no other conquered country were the prospects of a successful resistance movement more dangerous and disheartening. But an underground was organized. And unlike...