Word: grabski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1944, Mikolajczyk and Professor Stanislaw Grabski, an elderly Polish democrat, flew from London to Moscow. Stalin wanted the Polish government in London to merge with his own Lublin Committee, consisting of Polish Communists and stooge socialists. As bait, he offered to ease the Teheran partitioning (the Curzon Line). Mention of the Curzon Line and of the Lublin Poles set Grabski off. He "began to beat on Stalin's table. He spoke for 45 minutes in Russian about the criminal injustices that were being heaped on Poland. When Grabski finished, winded, Stalin got up and patted the indignant...
Bierut. becomes one of three members of a presidential council. The other two: ailing Wincenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, and bearded Nationalist Stanislaw Grabski, 74. Edward Osubka-Morawski, 40, a Socialist who has recently worked in close harmony with Moscow, remains as 'Premier. As Deputy Premier, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk takes an unexpectedly subordinate role...
...Poland came first. Premier Mikolajczyk, with his Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer, his Speaker of the Assembly Stanislaw Grabski, fled to Moscow from London. Hardly were they settled in the Metropole when from Lublin came the leaders of the Polish National Liberation Committee: Edward Osubka-Morawski, Boleslaw Berut, Colonel General Michal Rola-Zymierski. Sitting side by side in the Kremlin, Stalin and Churchill talked to each group separately. Then they told them to get together. Weeks before, in London, Premier Mikolajczyk had told a group of U.S. Congressmen that he knew he would eventually have to yield to the Russians...
With him went suave Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer, grey-bearded Council President Stanislaw Grabski...