Word: popiel
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Poland, already so recognized, only the feeble Labor Party, headed by Karol Popiel, existed legally outside the coalition Government of Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski. But within the coalition, the new Polish Peasant Party, headed by Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk (who was in the U.S. last week, on his way home from an international food conference), was making notable strides. Mikolajczyk and his followers were not fighting the Communists or the Russians outright, but they were fighting for a free Poland along the line laid down by the late, great Wincenty Witos (see MILESTONES...
...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...