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...Government and satellites (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) thought it so important that representatives from abroad included (among others): Alexander Korneichuk,** Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine; General Vassily Kozlov, World War II guerrilla hero; Lieut. General Alexander Gundorov, head of the All-Slav Congress in Moscow; General Karol Swierczewski, Poland's Vice Minister of National Defense; Tzola Dragoïtcheva, Secretary of Bulgaria's Fatherland Front and No. 1 hatchet woman of Bulgarian Communism. The Yugoslav delegates, who attempted to attend the congress as private citizens, were barred as Communists by U.S. immigration authorities. All other...
...Travail. That Mikolajczyk and the Western democracy he represents have survived the shock of war and revolution is another testimonial to Poland's national stamina. Once Poland was the mightiest nation of eastern Europe. Jan Karol Chodkiewicz's fearsome Winged Hussars (see cut) defeated the Turks at Chocim in 1621, and 62 years later Jan Sobieski beat them back from Vienna. The Polish military tradition still burns bright; World War II's Warsaw and Monte Cassino will be remembered. And yet, as Poland under her conquerors has gone from disaster to disaster, the tradition of struggle...
...Poland, already so recognized, only the feeble Labor Party, headed by Karol Popiel, existed legally outside the coalition Government of Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski. But within the coalition, the new Polish Peasant Party, headed by Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk (who was in the U.S. last week, on his way home from an international food conference), was making notable strides. Mikolajczyk and his followers were not fighting the Communists or the Russians outright, but they were fighting for a free Poland along the line laid down by the late, great Wincenty Witos (see MILESTONES...
...London it was announced that the current issue of Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party organ Jutro Polski, would be the last. This seemed a hint that he might return to Poland to participate in the Warsaw Government. At week's end the press announced that Mikolajczyk and Karol Popiel, Christian Democratic leader, were waiting for Prime Minister Churchill's return from Yalta to go to Moscow and arrange to join the Warsaw Government...
...Russians bogged down, short of supplies, the Germans fell on the new army with all their might. Announced Berlin on November 4: the First Czechoslovak Army had been wiped out, lost 10,000 prisoners, 267 planes, 104 tanks, 309 guns. General Viest and his Chief of Staff. Brigadier General Karol Golian, had been captured...