Word: lubliner
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...chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed at Yalta. This will all come out 20 years hence, when Stalin writes his war memoirs. . . . But I shall not then be alive- I shall never know...
...boss did a little black marketing and the Russians put him in jail. He served two years and went home to Poland, although he was a Jew and knew what the Germans might do to him. They picked him up and sent him to the big concentration camp near Lublin where 1,500,000 died. Moische did not die. He was there when the Russians liberated the camp...
...exile government. When Moscow created the rival puppet Polish government, which is still the hard core of the provisional regime in Warsaw, Mikolajczyk shuttled across half the globe -from London to Washington to Moscow-to see on what terms the Poles of London and the Poles of Lublin could get together. He talked and chain-smoked with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, parleyed with the Lublin left-wingers, worked out a compromise disowned by the right-wingers in London. He resigned in November 1944, to be resuscitated seven months later after Harry Hopkins worked out a compromise government with Stalin...
...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...
...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...