Word: lublin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow Jimmy Byrnes and Ernie Bevin recognized the move as a typical Russian conference tactic. They recalled the sudden announcement of a Soviet-sponsored Austrian government during the San Francisco conference, and the Russian recognition of the Lublin Poles just before Yalta. The claim to Trabzon was also recognizable as another stathmos in the Russian march toward the Mediterranean...
...Unity; Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk (who had come from London) and Wladyslaw Kiernik. A lot had happened since Mikolajczyk finally heeded the bidding of the U.S. and Britain to join the Warsaw regime. Most significant: the new 21-man Government (16 of them members of the old Moscow-sponsored Lublin regime) had won recognition from the Allies...
...Lublin influence waxed, the Party's waned. Mikolajczyk himself received only the secondary portfolio of Agriculture. Kiernik, his Party colleague, who was to have had the important Ministry of the Interior, got an emasculated Ministry of Public Administration, stripped of police-control powers. The Peasant Party's principal pillar, septuagenarian, independent Wincenty Witos, thrice Premier of Poland, joined the Home National Council but received no Cabinet office...
...onetime member of the Polish Socialist Party, he was invited to Moscow in 1944. There he talked with Russian-armed Polish troops and Polish WACs, had an extraordinary (140 minutes) interview with Joseph Stalin. His sympathies were always with the Lublin group. Back in the U.S., he reported to the State Department (as a private U.S. citizen), worked hard on Polish-American groups to sell the idea of Russo-Polish cooperation...
Poland's 1938 Teschen grab hurt Poland's later case before the world. Lublin and London seemed to be enrolled in an unpopularity contest...