Word: lubliners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1944, Mikolajczyk and Professor Stanislaw Grabski, an elderly Polish democrat, flew from London to Moscow. Stalin wanted the Polish government in London to merge with his own Lublin Committee, consisting of Polish Communists and stooge socialists. As bait, he offered to ease the Teheran partitioning (the Curzon Line). Mention of the Curzon Line and of the Lublin Poles set Grabski off. He "began to beat on Stalin's table. He spoke for 45 minutes in Russian about the criminal injustices that were being heaped on Poland. When Grabski finished, winded, Stalin got up and patted the indignant...
Mikolajczyk writes: "Stalin . . . was angrier than I had ever seen him. He turned on Osobka-Morawski and Bierut [Lublin Poles] and roared a demand that they immediately renew their agreement to the frontier that had been established [secretly in 1944] without the knowledge of the legal Polish government in London. They hurriedly complied. Stalin then turned on Molotov and rebuked him thunderously. 'You had no right to agree to let these people use those waters for their shipping,' he stormed. 'I will not have it! I will not have foreign spies spying on Konigsberg! You know very...
...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...