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...Britain in the Atlantic Charter had again emphasized, as a principle of world order, the right of self-determination for such distinct but relatively weak peoples as the Poles. When Stalin's returning armies drove the Germans out of Eastern Poland, he set up at Lublin a "provincial government" of Poland in rivalry to the Polish government, which had fled to London after the Hitler-Stalin invasions. The London Polish government was not a creature of Britain; it derived from the Poland created after World War I by Patriots Paderewski and Pilsudski. The Lublin government, though made...
...Lublin Doesn't Answer. In a written message, apparently ghosted by Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt proposed that two Lublin Poles and two others from within Poland (but nonCommunist) be summoned to Yalta. Maybe they could work out a new provisional government agreeable to all. Added Roosevelt: if the four Poles succeeded, he was "sure" the U.S. and Britain would "disassociate themselves" from the London Poles...
Scenting capitulation by the Anglo-Americans, Stalin moved in quickly. He was trying, he said, all possible ways to locate the top Lublin Poles by phone. So far, they had not been found. "I am afraid we have not sufficient time." He could not go ahead with Roosevelt's proposal until he consulted them. After all, as he observed before, "I am called dictator and not a democrat, but I have enough democratic feeling to refuse to create a Polish government without the Poles being consulted...
...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...