Word: mikolajczyk
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...crinkle-eyed pipe-smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...
Late at night (an old Bolshevik custom) the summons came from the Kremlin. Mikolajczyk and his colleagues hurried over. Joseph Stalin greeted them affably. Two and a half hours later, Premier Mikolajczyk left the Kremlin, noncommittal but smiling. His smile was the only political news of his historic conference...
Down the night sky onto a Moscow airfield slid the big Russian plane from Cairo. Out stepped Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and five colleagues. Joseph Stalin's reception committee pounced on them, whisked them off in a big black official car to the official Guest House on Ostrovsky Street. Next morning the Poles dashed to the Soviet Foreign Commissariat, the U.S. and British Embassies. They dropped in at the Lenin Library, the Botanical Gardens, the Park of Culture and Rest. On the Kamenny Bridge Premier Mikolajczyk heard the boom of cannon announcing a Red Army victory. Said...
There were few smiles in the Russian press. Said War and the Working Class's leading editorial: "It is now very clear that only those elements which can unite around the Polish [National] Committee . . . have a future. Only in this light must be regarded the trip of Mikolajczyk to Moscow, which was made, as the foreign press remarks, 'with great delay...
Later Pravda's front page announced the arrival of Polish National Committee .delegates for talks with Premier Mikolajczyk. From liberated Poland to Moscow a Russian warplane flew Committee President Boleslaw Berut, Chairman Edward Osubka-Morawski, Vice Chairman Andrei Witos and Defense Chief General Michal Rola-Zymierski. A Red Army band and a guard of honor welcomed them. Chairman Osubka-Morawski made a speech. He too was smiling...