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Last week Stanislaw Mikolajczyk tired first, resigned his post as Premier of the Polish Government in Exile. Out of the London Polish Government with him went the Polish Peasant Party, the strongest of the four coalition parties which make it up. President Wladislaw Rackiewicz asked Vice Premier Jan Kwapinski, a Socialist (and Russophobe), to form a new government. But with the Peasant Party gone, it did not look as if he would succeed. For ex-Premier Mikolajczyk there were two courses open: 1) he could go into permanent political exile; 2) he could join the Lublin Government, for whom...
...British Foreign Office, the charge was a challenge. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden set to work to make sure that hotheaded Poles gave a soft answer to Red wrath. In his endeavor he had the aid of reasonable, democratic Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and of a Polish Socialist, Deputy Premier Jan Kwapinski. With other moderates in the Polish Cabinet, these men labored long last week to produce an answer which-so they thought-would mend the worst fracture in the United Nations' frame. Five times the Cabinet met. Five times Mikolajczyk or Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer or Ambassador Count Edward Raczynski...
...same day: a New York Pole (D. A. Penzik) had suggested formation of a Polish National Committee of Liberation, composed of Socialists, Peasant Party members, the Communist Union of Polish Patriots in Moscow and democratic Polish groups in the U.S. and elsewhere. Mikolajczyk is a Peasant Party leader; Kwapinski a Socialist. Moral: according to the Russians all the Poles have to do to win recognition is to throw out the more violently anti-Soviet members of their Government...
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