Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain had entered the war in defense of a free Poland. The U.S. and Britain in the Atlantic Charter had again emphasized, as a principle of world order, the right of self-determination for such distinct but relatively weak peoples as the Poles. When Stalin's returning armies drove...
The boundary question arose from Stalin's insistence on annexing part of Eastern Poland. Before Yalta, it was understood that the Poles would be compensated by giving them German territory in the West. U.S. policy, as defined by the State Department in preparation for Yalta, was to hold down...
On the political question, the U.S. wanted an independent Poland, friendly to Russia and open to diplomatic and commercial intercourse with the West. In practice, this meant a provisional government formed around the London government and including leaders from among the anti-Nazi Polish patriots. Such a government would preside...
As the Yalta Conference opened, it was obvious that the Red army would take the rest of Poland, and within a matter of weeks. Stalin did not need a Yalta agreement to give him the real estate; his motive at Yalta was political, not geographic. Nobody knew better than the...
"There are six or seven million Poles in the U.S.," began Roosevelt. ". . . It would make it easier for me at home if the Soviet government would give something to Poland." Stalin could not have cared less how Roosevelt's popularity rating fared in Buffalo's Sixth Ward. To...