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Wanda Jakubowska, the director, was a prisoner at Auschwitz during the reign of terror. She saw the queues of Jewesses waiting for the crematorium, the old women left to die in the mud, and the bones of the murdered babies. From her previous experience before the war with Film Polski, she acquired the talent for realistic sets and atmosphere. The synthesis, "The Last Stop," is her masterpiece...
...London it was announced that the current issue of Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party organ Jutro Polski, would be the last. This seemed a hint that he might return to Poland to participate in the Warsaw Government. At week's end the press announced that Mikolajczyk and Karol Popiel, Christian Democratic leader, were waiting for Prime Minister Churchill's return from Yalta to go to Moscow and arrange to join the Warsaw Government...
...Moscow's pressure for acceptance of the Curzon Line and revamping of their Cabinet had they been publicly rebuked by their British hosts. To Foreign Secretary Eden's Whitehall office went Polish Minister Tadeusz Romer to present the exiled Cabinet's view. Said the semiofficial Dziennik Polski...
...dangers of underground journalism have been described in an issue of Glos Polski (Poland's Voice): "When knocking at the door brought no response, the Germans threw hand grenades through the windows, blasted the doors open and fired inside several times with their machine guns, killing two of our men and wounding two others, who later died in the hospital. A few days later the owner of the villa, Michael Kruk, his wife and two sons, aged 15 and 17, as well as all tenants of two neighboring houses, were arrested and subsequently shot. In all 83 persons lost...
...What the Polski company does to the Gestapo is first-rate entertainment- thanks to a score of good performances by the cast, fresh dialogue and plot (authored by Lubitsch and Melchior Lengyel) and the sure, saucy, suspenseful Lubitsch direction. Miss Lombard's natural, likable, vibrant performance is up to her standard. Mr. Benny, who plays his role straight, doesn't need his prop stogies to be funny...