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Planning at Chelm. As the mission winged to Cairo and on to Teheran, where a Russian plane and a cordial invitation from the Kremlin awaited them, the new Polish Committee of Liberation, from its provisional seat at Chelm, busily shaped Poland's future. The Committee issued a history-making manifesto, which outlined not only the Polish, but presumably the Russian blueprint for Eastern Europe above the Carpathians...
...Chelm, meanwhile, the new Committee of Liberation proclaimed the Polish Government in Exile illegal, charged that it represented the "Fascist" constitution...
Moscow did not lose a minute. The same day that Russian armies swept into Chelm, first big Polish town to fall to them west of the Curzon Line, a new Polish Committee of National Liberation moved in. It was Moscow's Union of Polish Patriots under a new name-in effect, a new Russian-backed government of Poland...