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...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...
...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...
Perfect Timing. The timing of this move was as perfect as the Kremlin's recognition of its puppet Polish Government, 24 hours before the Red Army offensive into the Reich. The Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut was specific about the meaning of the move. Said he to Allied correspondents: "On Polish soil there should be a Polish administration regardless of the opinions that may be expressed at the international [Big Three] conference''. He added that he did not believe that any of the Allies "will be willing to interfere." (This week the Big Three agreed...
...London the Polish Government, recognized by the U.S. and Britain, denounced the new Warsaw Government as "a gang of little men," cried: "We hold out our hand to Russia." But Russia clearly had more faith in the Warsaw Government's President Boleslaw Bierut, who according to the Polish Telegraph Agency (the official organ of the London Poles), had been in the Soviet service for some 20 years. Under the name Bienkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the Communist International. Under the name Rutkowski he had been head of the Polish section of the GPU (secret...
...Last fortnight, while the Poles abroad planned to raise a memorial to 8,000 Polish soldiers who had died at Cassino, Lublin's new Army, some 250,000 strong, were equipped with U.S. trucks which had been lend-leased to Russia. Said the Lublin Government's President Boleslaw Berut to TIME Correspondent John Hersey: Lublin's Army is "already larger than the French Army. It is growing all the time...