Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lublin Doesn't Answer. In a written message, apparently ghosted by Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt proposed that two Lublin Poles and two others from within Poland (but nonCommunist) be summoned to Yalta. Maybe they could work out a new provisional government agreeable to all. Added Roosevelt: if the four Poles...
Scenting capitulation by the Anglo-Americans, Stalin moved in quickly. He was trying, he said, all possible ways to locate the top Lublin Poles by phone. So far, they had not been found. "I am afraid we have not sufficient time." He could not go ahead with Roosevelt's...
The counterproposal became, with some minor changes, the substance of the Yalta agreement on Poland. It ignored Roosevelt's four Poles project. It drew Stalin's frontiers for Poland, including on the west a deep wedge of Germany to the Oder-Neisse line. It held fast to the...
The next day Roosevelt accepted. Stalin seemed unwilling to believe it. He asked: "Does this mean that you would withdraw recognition from the London [Poles]?" Said Roosevelt: "Yes."
Churchill worried: "In Parliament I must be able to say that the elections will be held in a fair way." Perhaps it was his frustration that led him then to an incredibly inept remark: "I do not care much about Poles, myself."