Word: mikolajczyk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considine also wrote The Babe Ruth Story, helped Harold Stassen with Where I Stand, and Poland's ex-Premier Mikolajczyk with The Rape of Poland. He thinks ghosting "an honorable profession." Says he: "There are lots of guys with a story to tell, and there's nothing dishonorable in their not being able to tell it, or in someone helping them tell...
...Franklin Roosevelt said to Poland's Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk: "But of one thing I am certain. Stalin is not an imperialist." Mikolajczyk learned differently, and he told about it last week in his book, The Rape of Poland (Whittlesey; $4). The rough blocks of his story the world has known about: his battle against the Teheran deal in which Roosevelt and Churchill let Stalin take eastern Poland; his postwar struggle to survive as a leader of a coalition government that included Communists, and his final flight to the West...
...Back. Mikolajczyk tried to do business with Communists of high & low degree, and of all shades of temperament. Every experience boiled down to a doublecross. Most interesting doublecrosser was Stalin himself, not the bland, genial Stalin of the photographs, but an unpredictable Georgian who could rave one minute and cajole the next, but who never took his eye off the ball-control of Poland...
...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...