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...Year, a brilliantly written travel book, includes a notable account of Russia's revolting treatment of the 2,000,000 Poles interned in the Soviet area after the German-Russian Pact. A 37-year-old journalist assigned to the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Pruszynski was there when General Sikorski arrived to negotiate with Stalin for their release. Pruszynski's observation is keen, his humor quick and spontaneous. Russian Year is possibly the best firsthand report on Russia since the war began...
...quiet rose mild Mrs. Thelma Cazalet Keir, veteran Tory reformist and sister of the late Major Victor Cazalet, killed in the plane crash that brought death to Poland's Premier-General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Mildly she proposed an amendment granting equal pay to women teachers. Gently the Government's respected Richard Austen Butler, President of the Board of Education, objected that equal pay had nothing to do with the Education Bill, should be considered at some other time...
...Polish Government in Exile was announced in London last week by President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz. It was somewhat to the left of the government of General Wladyslaw Sikorski. The new Premier: Peasant Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, no surprise. New Foreign Minister: Tadeusz Romer, quite a surprise...
...London, the Polish Government in Exile had to replace the almost irreplaceable General Sikorski. Formation of the new Government became a matter of political intrigue. Cabled New York Timesman Raymond Daniell: "General Sikorski's death . . . has precipitated a political feud that might have lain dormant until the Polish Government had returned home after the Allied victory. It is the old struggle between the Left and Right, latent in the political alignments of almost all refugee Governments here...
Maneuvers. These Russia-distrusting Poles gave Sikorski no support in his efforts to heal the break with Russia. They tried to make General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces. He was a collaborator of Dictator Pilsudski, is backed by undemocratic officers in the Polish Army; he resigned from the Polish Government when Sikorski signed a pact with Russia...