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...Slate. But Young Henry would not go it alone. His mother, who had quietly used her influence in company affairs to end Bennett's reign, would certainly help. It was no secret that she had long opposed many a Bennett policy, particularly on la bor. Now, with the slate swept clean, a new start would be made. To the new board of strategy, Young Henry named...
...Poland's Lieut. General Tadeusz Kombrowski ("General Bor"), leader of last August's abortive Warsaw uprising...
...this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader of the ill-fated Warsaw August uprising, as commander in chief of the London Government's underground army. Some of the 16 hardly deserved the title of "democratic leaders," but they had what amounted to a Russian pledge of safe conduct...
...light of victory-or perhaps more like his pre-1941 self. After dealing Hitler one of his two heaviest defeats of the year, Stalin's central armies had stopped on the Vistula, while those on the flanks pursued secondary aims. Then followed the ill-timed martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical destruction of the London Polish Government. At Dumbarton Oaks, Russia's diplomats insisted that, in the framework of postwar security, no great power (e.g., Russia) should be disciplined without its consent...
...that Premier Mikolajczyk's return to Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...