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He and his Government noticeably did not demand a final showdown when the Red Army entered Old Poland. The Poles, if reasonably approached, may yet be willing to consider the Russian proposal that they surrender at least part of pre-war Eastern Poland, turn to German East Prussia and Silesia...
Last week, when Mikolajczyk was asked to define "Polish rights," he answered: "A strong, free and independent Poland, with free, happy citizens." Joseph Stalin himself has declared that Russia wants a strong and independent Poland, and that Russia would welcome a Soviet-Polish alliance against the Germans. Says Miko lajczyk...
Vladimir the Great of Kiev took the lands along the Bug and the San from the Poles in 981. Boleslas the Brave, second king of Poland, stormed Kiev in 1018. These were but the first recorded instances in a long line of futile attempts to nail down a firm frontier...
Rise & Fall. More than once in the next 300 years, the Poles marched as far as Kiev; more than once men from the East, notably the Tatars, swept into Poland. Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His...
Rebirth. One hundred and twenty-three years later, Woodrow Wilson brought about the resurrection of Poland. Out of the wreck of the central powers and the Russian Empire, new states were created, Poland and the Baltic States among them. Almost at once the Poles found themselves in a new war...