Word: lublin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians have not paid their allocation in full; they have refused any cooperation in Poland, except the belated opening of ports to receive supplies. UNRRA has not yet signed an agreement with the Lublin Government...
...times the two talked by transocean telephone almost every day. They loved to argue-Churchill heated and impetuous, Roosevelt cautious and soothing. Often, in their conversations and cables Stalin was "U.J." -for "Uncle Joe." Not long ago Churchill wanted to jump all over "U.J." for insisting that his Lublin Polish Government be admitted to the San Francisco conference without change. Roosevelt, equally opposed to Stalin's maneuver, persuaded Churchill to hold...
...nation's capital there was a damper on this mood of hope. Three sudden events-the make-up of the Russian delegation to San Francisco, the disclosure of the secret Yalta voting agreement, and the inter-Allied row over the Lublin Poles (see INTERNATIONAL)-had thrown official Washington into a slough of despond. In the State Department, there was open talk of postponing the San Francisco Conference. This mood would probably unkink itself, but San Francisco no longer seemed a foregone happy conclusion. The war was unmistakably being won. But what of the peace...
...nobody's surprise, that issue was Poland. At Yalta, the Big Three had agreed in principle to concert their policies on the new Poland, replace Russia's Lublin lackeys with a government which would be fairly representative and suit the U.S. and Britain as well as the U.S.S.R. After a month of negotiation in Moscow, Molotov had not given an inch to British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. They wanted an honestly reorganized government, representing all Poles except those hopelessly hostile to Russia. Mr. Molotov was willing to enlarge the government...
There matters stood last week, when the Soviet Government suddenly demanded that the U.S. and Britain in effect recognize the present Warsaw (ex-Lublin) Government by admitting it to the San Francisco conference. Britain flatly refused. So, less flatly and after much thought...