Word: lublin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distaste. Last week, in a syndicated column (Press Alliance) headed "Accepting the Challenge," he tartly told the U.S. that the time had come to stand up to Russia at the next Big Three meeting (see U.S. AT WAR). Said Mowrer: "Marshal Joseph Stalin's hasty recognition of the Lublin Moscow-manufactured Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland is a challenge flung not so much at the London Poles as in the teeth of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. It is the latest move in what is coming to look like a genial form of Soviet blackmail...
...Lublin last fortnight the Polish Committee of National Liberation announced that henceforth it was the Provisional Government of Poland. Five days later the Kremlin officially recognized...
Grim Correctness. In this, whatever their motives, they were probably somewhat more realistic than the Allied governments. Stalin's intentions had been perfectly clear for months. He had high-pressured the London Poles, in the person of ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, to join his Lublin Committee-on Lublin's terms. He had informed his Teheran colleagues of his decision to establish a friendly regime in Poland. When they asked him to wait a little while, he had graciously acceded. But he had never changed his plans...
...Warsaw (which is now on the verge of famine-). The Polish Army fighting in Italy was loyal to the Government in Exile, but Italy is far from Poland. Last fortnight, while the Poles abroad planned to raise a memorial to 8,000 Polish soldiers who had died at Cassino, Lublin's new Army, some 250,000 strong, were equipped with U.S. trucks which had been lend-leased to Russia. Said the Lublin Government's President Boleslaw Berut to TIME Correspondent John Hersey: Lublin's Army is "already larger than the French Army. It is growing...
...Enemy of the People." The once-powerful Polish landlords might have done something. But Lublin's land policy has already split up many of their estates among the peasants. The landlords have gone into local administrative posts (when they played ball with Lublin), or gone to jail (when they did not). In London the Government in Exile was powerless. Premier Tomasz Arciszewski could merely growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants...