Word: curzon
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...They made this decision at a time when Russia thought it necessary to collaborate with Hitler, and yet Poland, after suffering untold agony, is now asked to surrender far more to Russia than what she refused to give Hitler. For the Curzon line frontier demanded by Russia is close to the Hitler-Stalin line of 1939. It means a loss of 47% of prewar Poland, while it represents a gain of less than 1% for the Soviet Union. The Polish Government has declared its readiness to discuss concessions, but no government, least of all a government in exile, could make...
...Russia has the right of reassurance against future attacks from the West, and we are going all the way with her to see that she gets it. ... We . . . have never . . . guaranteed . . . any particular frontier line to Poland. . . . The British view . . . stands expressed in the so-called Curzon Line. . . . Marshal Stalin ... agreed upon the need for Poland to obtain [territorial] compensation at the expense of Germany. . . . [He is] resolved upon the creation ... of a strong, integral, independent Poland...
...since the Blitzkrieg of 1939 had the harried rulers of Poland stood at such a crossroads. Never before in their long resistance to Moscow's pressure for acceptance of the Curzon Line and revamping of their Cabinet had they been publicly rebuked by their British hosts. To Foreign Secretary Eden's Whitehall office went Polish Minister Tadeusz Romer to present the exiled Cabinet's view. Said the semiofficial Dziennik Polski...
...Polish Government has taken the determined stand of refusing the so-called Curzon Line. . . . The Polish Government will hold fast to this attitude...
...Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line in 1920 and snatched Vilna from Lithuania...