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...Ambassador W. Averell Harriman gave a cocktail party last week at his Moscow residence, Spasso House. His guests: Poland's exiled ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who had just come from London; Poland's Communist President Boleslaw Bierut, who had just come from Warsaw; and a swatch of other Poles who did not like each other. Drinks flowed. The party was a big success. Five days later the Polish factions surprised a world accustomed to Polish fractiousness: they had reached agreement and formed a government acceptable to all of the Big Three...
...Bierut. becomes one of three members of a presidential council. The other two: ailing Wincenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, and bearded Nationalist Stanislaw Grabski, 74. Edward Osubka-Morawski, 40, a Socialist who has recently worked in close harmony with Moscow, remains as 'Premier. As Deputy Premier, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk takes an unexpectedly subordinate role...
...respectable variety of Poles agree on a new Warsaw government. Invited to Moscow to begin new discussions this week were: ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, a key figure in any settlement, and two other London exiles (but no member of the unreconstructible exiled Government); Warsaw President Boleslaw Bierut and three members of his Government; five non-Government Poles from Poland. With the Russians, these men would try to find agreement among themselves, then submit the result to the Big Three's troubleshooters (Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr). If all went well, the whole thing...
Cymbals & Silence. When Bierut and his Warsaw colleagues (Osubka-Morawski, Kowalski and Gomulka) arrived at Moscow's airport, they were greeted by Foreign Commissar Molotov, Vice Commissar Vyshinsky, Politburo brass hats and a vast blare of tubas, trumpets, cymbals and drums...
...Trump. Before Molotov arrived in Washington, Moscow played a trump. Into Moscow flew President Boleslaw Bierut, Premier Osubka-Morawski, Deputy Premier Wladyslaw Homolka and Defense Minister General Michal Rola-Zymierski-Warsaw Poles all. Two days later, Stalin himself signed a 20-year mutual assistance treaty and proclaimed "a radical turning point in the relations between the Soviet Union and Poland . . . a solid foundation for replacing the old unfriendly relations with ties of alliance and friendship...