Word: lublin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form a Polish Government on Polish soil, a Government recognized by all the great powers concerned. ... If the Polish Government had taken the advice we tendered them at the beginning of this year, the additional complication produced by the formation of the Polish National Committee of Liberation at Lublin would never have arisen...
...return to Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...
Stalin could scarcely ask for more than that Churchill should urge Mikolajczyk's return. For in the Russian solution of the Polish question, Premier Mikolajczyk was the Kremlin's indispensable man. The heavily Communist Lublin Government was not the kind of popular-front goverment that Marshal Stalin intends to set up in Europe's Russia-neighboring countries.* Moreover, the Lublin Government was composed of political nonentities, scarcely known even in Poland, with no standing at all in the world. And they had been weakened by the recent resignation, as a result of the failure of Lublin...
...Back in Lublin the Lublin Poles 1) opened a new campaign of denunciation against the London Poles; 2) appointed one Stefan Wilanowski as their representative in London...
...Poland came first. Premier Mikolajczyk, with his Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer, his Speaker of the Assembly Stanislaw Grabski, fled to Moscow from London. Hardly were they settled in the Metropole when from Lublin came the leaders of the Polish National Liberation Committee: Edward Osubka-Morawski, Boleslaw Berut, Colonel General Michal Rola-Zymierski. Sitting side by side in the Kremlin, Stalin and Churchill talked to each group separately. Then they told them to get together. Weeks before, in London, Premier Mikolajczyk had told a group of U.S. Congressmen that he knew he would eventually have to yield to the Russians...