Word: mikolajczyk
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...Cecylia Mikolajczyk, 42, wife of the former premier of the London Polish Government, rejoined her husband in London after nearly three years in Nazi prison camps. Tattooed on her left arm, for permanent remembrance, is her slave number...
...London, Poland's ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk indicated his terms for joining the new Government: the Russians must halt all deportations, withdraw their secret police (the NKVD, formerly the GPU), release all Poles from concentration camps, freely admit the foreign press to Poland, grant complete political freedom to all Poles (presumably including Russia's avowed enemies), guarantee Allied super vision of Polish elections. Addressing the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly warned Moscow that the British Government regarded the present Warsaw Poles with extreme distaste, expected something much more decent to emerge...
...Star had also said kind words-the first in many months-for Peasant Party leader and ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk: "Among Polish émigré groups, Mikolajczyk and his supporters have refused to recognize the decisions of the London émigré Government. It is possible that among this group and even among others there will be many people ready to take upon themselves the responsibility for the future fate of Poland and participate in a reorganized Polish Government." Two days later, Moscow's Pravda attacked Mikolajczyk for criticizing the Yalta agreement on Poland and thereby aligning himself with...
...London it was announced that the current issue of Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party organ Jutro Polski, would be the last. This seemed a hint that he might return to Poland to participate in the Warsaw Government. At week's end the press announced that Mikolajczyk and Karol Popiel, Christian Democratic leader, were waiting for Prime Minister Churchill's return from Yalta to go to Moscow and arrange to join the Warsaw Government...
...London Poles would bear Mikolajczyk no ill will if he did. In the U.S. their supporters described his state of mind at the time he last visited Moscow. His wife had been put in a German concentration camp. His only son was grown up. He had few illusions about accomplishing anything substantial for the Polish people by joining the Warsaw Government. He might, in the end, be killed by the Russians or the Poles. But if, before that time, he could do even a little for the Polish people, he felt that he should risk a return, even...