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The new Government was expected to include more socialistic elements. But the power was not altogether within the Government: there are rightist Poles in London without official status who pull influential strings, and the rightists in the Government have in the past exercised strength out of proportion to their number...
Maneuvers. These Russia-distrusting Poles gave Sikorski no support in his efforts to heal the break with Russia. They tried to make General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces. He was a collaborator of Dictator Pilsudski, is backed by undemocratic officers in the Polish Army; he...
The death of General Sikorski made future Polish policy uncertain. He was not afraid of facts. Though he loathed Communism, he made a pact with the Soviet Union shortly after it found itself at war with Germany. Though his personal politics were ruggedly conservative, he included some liberals in his...
The commission moved slowly. Spaniards, the largest group, were first on its list. The commission offered the Spaniards a choice of: 1) going to Mexico; 2) joining British pioneer outfits; 3) working on labor projects. The Poles came next. According to the story told by the interned Russians, a Polish...
In Moscow last week it seemed fitting to the Union of Polish Patriots to name a division for Kosciuszko. The division was to fight beside "the heroic Red Army against the German invaders ... for the restoration of a free, independent and strong Poland." Union President Wanda Wasilewska, wife of a...