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...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...
...dealing Hitler one of his two heaviest defeats of the year, Stalin's central armies had stopped on the Vistula, while those on the flanks pursued secondary aims. Then followed the ill-timed martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical destruction of the London Polish Government. At Dumbarton Oaks, Russia's diplomats insisted that, in the framework of postwar security, no great power (e.g., Russia) should be disciplined without its consent...
While Churchill was speaking, the heads of the Lublin Government were conferring in Moscow. It was expected that by next week they would be recognized as Poland's provisional government. Though political purists might cavil at the word "independent," Marshal Stalin had spoken only the literal truth to Prime Minister Churchill at Teheran, since the Lublin Government was Russian-controlled...