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Red Light. The State Department cau tiously informed Moscow that the U.S. would join the negotiations - if the Krem lin were agreeable. Official Britain began applauding the moment the Poles pub lished their statement. "It shows," said a Foreign Office mouthpiece in a burst of unaccustomed enthusiasm, "that in the...
To the trained ear of the British Foreign Office, the charge was a challenge. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden set to work to make sure that hotheaded Poles gave a soft answer to Red wrath. In his endeavor he had the aid of reasonable, democratic Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and of a...
At week's end Eden had every reason to believe that he had succeeded: the Poles announced that they were ready to resume relations with Moscow, discuss all outstanding questions-if Russia would let the U.S. and Britain sit in, and if these powers would share responsibility for the...
The mouthpiece was wrong. From Moscow came a cold, hard blast like a winter wind across the steppes. Said Moscow to the Poles: 1) the Poles have rejected the Curzon Line; 2) the Poles forget that they have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., hence cannot negotiate; 3) the lack...
As the exhausted armies lunged feebly at each other, Lord Curzon, on behalf of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, suggested a mutually satisfactory line of demarcation, resolving as best it could the impossible ethnographic interming-lings left over after 1,000 years of strife. Neither side would listen...