Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Issues. Out of this background issued two questions for Yalta: 1) the Polish boundaries, and 2) the even more important question of whether Poland would have its own government or be ruled by Russian stooges...
...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 over free Polish elections in which the Poles would pick their own postwar leaders...
...estate; his motive at Yalta was political, not geographic. Nobody knew better than the Russians that the Poles would not make docile slaves. With Germany and France out of the future great-power picture (as Roosevelt and Stalin agreed), Britain and the U.S. were the only ones to which Polish patriots could look for help. Stalin needed to destroy this hope-to show the Poles that the Western powers would in practice throw the principles of the Atlantic Charter overboard. The first step must be to get the U.S. and Britain to abandon the London Polish government...
...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 such arguments the Soviet dictator had a bland counter: "What will the Russians say?" Without the Polish territory he coveted, said Stalin, "I cannot return to Moscow...
...been found. "I am afraid we have not sufficient time." He could not go ahead with Roosevelt's proposal until he consulted them. After all, as he observed before, "I am called dictator and not a democrat, but I have enough democratic feeling to refuse to create a Polish government without the Poles being consulted...