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...Pravda, official Communist Party organ, published a presumably meaningful story the same day: a New York Pole (D. A. Penzik) had suggested formation of a Polish National Committee of Liberation, composed of Socialists, Peasant Party members, the Communist Union of Polish Patriots in Moscow and democratic Polish groups in the U.S. and elsewhere. Mikolajczyk is a Peasant Party leader; Kwapinski a Socialist. Moral: according to the Russians all the Poles have to do to win recognition is to throw out the more violently anti-Soviet members of their Government...
Stop Sign. But Moscow was not yet through. Pravda that day ran a story which shouted to the world that the issue ran deeper than the Polish controversy. Said Pravda: From "reliable Greek and Yugoslav sources" in Cairo, it had learned that a secret meeting took place recently in a seacoast city of the Pyrenees between two British officials and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop-"to find out the conditions of a separate peace with the Germans. It is understood that the meeting did not remain without results...
Moscow's Pravda, over whose editorial attitude Joseph Stalin reputedly has considerable control, responded to Mr. Willkie's homily with the choicest selection from a Bolshevik's polemical dictionary. "Willkie Is Stirring the Waters" was the title of Pravda's prominently displayed blast. It accused "Mr. Willkie, as an obedient speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense...
Others had. Passionate Internationalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer, for instance, who last February had resigned from his job as deputy director of OWI to conduct an uninhibited newspaper column on world affairs, submitted the hottest : "This Pravda piece means simply the breakdown of Anglo-American diplomacy." And the Moscow edict may indeed have been a unilateral P.S. to the Teheran communi...
Polish Shadows. What seemed to have spoiled a beautiful friendship was Mr. Willkie's very tactfully expressed concern over the eventual fate of Poland and the Baltic nations (see p. 18). Proclaimed Pravda with an air of angry finality: "The question of the near Baltic republics is an internal affair of the U.S.S.R." And: "In respect to Finland and Poland . . . the Soviet Union will be able to get an agreement with them itself and does not need the help of Mr. Willkie." But what about the help of Mr. Roosevelt? Perhaps Stalin, shouting at a Presidential candidate, wanted also...