Word: lubliners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago a Soviet correspondent described the Nazi murder camp near Lublin. Last week TIME'S Moscow Correspondent Richard Lauterbach visited Maidenek with a party of non-Russian newsmen. His report...
...Sunday and the sun was hot. The Polish girls wore their best embroidered dresses to Mass and the men of Lublin chatted on street corners without a furtive, over-the-shoulder look. We drove out along the Chelm road about a mile from town. Dmitri Kudriavtsev, Secretary of the Soviet Atrocities Commission, said: "They called this 'the road of death.' " Kudriavtsev is a short man, with curly hair and a nice face. He has an even, soft way of talking. You could not guess that he has pored over more horrors in the past three years than any living...
...Kremlin smiled & smiled as the little men in Moscow's old Polish Embassy talked & talked. For two days the Poles from Lublin* called the 1935 constitution fascist, demanded that the London Poles repudiate it, accept the constitution of 1921. For two days the six Poles from London defended the 1935 constitution as the legal basis of their government. If they repudiated it, they would repudiate themselves...
...second day talk stopped. Off to the plane for Cairo and London dashed Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and his three colleagues. Off to the plane for Lublin dashed the chairman of the Polish Committee for Liberation, Edward Osubka-Morawski, and Boleslaw Berut, president of the National Council (the Moscow-sponsored Polish underground parliament), who in the course of the Moscow negotiations turned out to be the real power among the Lublin Poles...
Poles in London were officially cheerful, unofficially gloomy. They thought they understood the Soviet game: as fast as the London Poles yielded a point, the Russians, through the Lublin Poles, would raise another. But the talks would not break down despite Mikolajczyk's flight to Britain-at least not until after the Russians were well into Germany...