Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Caesar's Wife. Churchill still had misgivings. There were seeds of future trouble in turning so much of Germany over to Poland-"I do not wish to stuff the Polish goose until it dies of German indigestion." The Prime Minister visualized a mass deportation of Germans. Was this not inhumane? "I ... feel conscious of the large school of thought in England which is shocked at the idea of transferring millions of people." He added: "Personally, I am not shocked...
...free and unfettered would the future Polish elections be? The principle involved in this was the political key to the future of Eastern Europe. But it was not argued on principle or bargained from strength. Roosevelt thought of the 6,000,000 American-Polish voters. "The matter is not only one of principle," he said, "but of practical politics ... I want this election ... to be ... like Caesar's wife. I did not know her, but they said she was pure...
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...
...Polish lesson was not lost on the Hungarians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Rumanians and Czechs. If the Poles, Eastern Europe's stoutest fighters for freedom, could not count on the West, what hope for the others? Inexorably, the Communist grip upon all of them tightened...