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...ghetto there was scarcely anyone alive to hope. For deliverance from the grinding boot of the Nazis, Warsaw had waited longer than any other capital of Europe; it was nearly five years. The Polish underground was doing what it could to help the Russians, and it so notified Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Premier of the London Polish Government, who flew to Moscow last week to TIME, AUGUST 7, 1944 discuss the Russian-Polish problem with Joseph Stalin (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Rugged, rosy-cheeked Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Premier of the Polish Government in London, hurried to No. 10 Downing Street. Wins.ton Churchill had urgent news for him: Joseph Stalin, who did not recognize the London Polish Government and had just recognized the Polish Committee of National Liberation (TIME, July 31), had agreed to see Mikolajczyk...
With the tense haste of a man who knew it was now or never, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk summoned his Cabinet. In a paneled drawing room at No. 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, under a staring portrait of late great Premier Wladislaw Sikorski, apostle of Russo-Polishrapprochement, the ministers listened to the news. President Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, a diehard Russophobe, rose theatrically, said coldly: "I wash my hands of this." Then he stalked out. But his colleagues stayed on for hours of bitter but subdued talk...
There was no alternative. The ministers gave their blessing to the Premier's trip, voted him power to "reestablish relations with Stalin." Stanislaw Mikolajczyk did not lose a minute. He rushed to pack his bags, donned a light overcoat, motored to the airfield where a British plane waited...
Poles indulging in these hopes, so often thwarted before, remembered that July 4 is the first anniversary of the death (in a plane crash) of their Premier-General Wladyslaw Sikorski, practitioner of peace with Moscow. Perhaps Stanislaw Mikolajczyk might yet be another Sikorski...