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The Government tried to fend off charges of negligence and complaisance by blaming the affair on 1) Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party; 2) fascist members of the National Armed Forces, led by agents of General Wladyslaw Anders, wartime commander of Polish forces in Italy.
Britain's announcement that anti-Russian General Anders' 100,000 Poles in Italy would be brought to Britain instead of being sent back to Poland touched off a bitter press campaign in Moscow and London (see cut). The exiled Polish Army's duty is "not yet finished...
In Parliament Bevin had said, "When men have fought with you or stood by you it is against our religion to let them down." Now he promised Anders that those of his soldiers who did not want to return to the new Poland could find asylum in the British Empire...
Anders argued that he could not advise the soldiers to return to Poland unless the Polish Government promised elections this spring. Bevin, too, wanted immediate Polish elections, but both men knew that the chances were becoming slimmer.
Nevertheless, Bevin argued that, elections or no, the Poles in Anders' army should go home. Little by little Anders got the idea. Anders must depend on British transport facilities. If the general did not cooperate, he might find it even harder to rejoin his troops in Italy than to...