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Stalin quickly countered: "There are some very good people among the Poles. They are good fighters." He tossed in a consolation bone: to show how fair the Polish elections would be, he would see to it that Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, sturdy Polish Peasant Party leader and chief hope for a free Poland, would be allowed to return to Poland and electioneer...
...Sequel. Not until two years later (January 1947) did the provisional Polish government recognized by the Big Three hold its elections. They were rigged to insure Communist control. Washington and London denounced them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane resigned in protest over them. Mikolajczyk, who was allowed no effective voice in the provisional government or in the elections, was forced to flee abroad for safety...
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...
...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...