Word: curzon
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...fascist politicians in its makeup ... is living in the phantom world of a Hitlerite mirage. ... It has completely cut itself off from the real Polish people." Obviously there had been no change in the Russian attitude that 1) it will not deal with the present Polish Government; 2) the Curzon Line in eastern Poland is an immutable demand...
...week's end there was vague and unofficial hope that the deadlock might be broken. The British were urging the Poles to send another note to Russia, specifically offering to accept the Curzon Line as a base for negotiations...
...gesture toward reestablishing normal relations with Poland. To the "Polish people" the Russians offered a "strong and independent Poland," an opportunity to join the new Soviet-Czechoslovak Alliance, an assurance that the eastern border of Poland could be fixed by agreement-provided it followed more or less closely the Curzon Line and left the western Ukraine and western White Russia in the Soviet Union...
...mouthpiece was wrong. From Moscow came a cold, hard blast like a winter wind across the steppes. Said Moscow to the Poles: 1) the Poles have rejected the Curzon Line; 2) the Poles forget that they have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., hence cannot negotiate; 3) the lack of relations is the fault of the Poles who joined the Germans in an anti-Soviet slander about the murder of Polish officers in Katyn Forest (TIME, April 26); 4) the present Polish Government clearly does not want to establish good relations with Russia. In effect, said Moscow...
...London last week the cautious Sunday Observer reported informal Russian offers to withdraw to the Curzon Line, perhaps even enough farther in the south to restore historic Lwow to Poland. Such an offer, if actually made, might finally bring peace in place of truce where great armies now battle...