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...Liberator took off from Gibraltar, soared into the night sky of July 4. Then, soon after the takeoff, its engines stalled and it crashed. Among those killed: General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government in Exile and commander of its armed forces; his daughter, Mrs. Sophia Lesniowska; General Tadeusz Klimecki, Chief of the Polish General Staff; Colonel Andrzej Marecki, military scientist; British Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, M.P., political liaison officer to Sikorski...
...death of General Sikorski made future Polish policy uncertain. He was not afraid of facts. Though he loathed Communism, he made a pact with the Soviet Union shortly after it found itself at war with Germany. Though his personal politics were ruggedly conservative, he included some liberals in his Government. But his Government was riddled with backward-looking Poles who opposed his policies, worked unceasingly to destroy his pact with Russia...
Meanwhile Premier in Exile General Wladyslaw Sikorski, somewhere in the Middle East, reviewed the Polish divisions which had originally been created to fight beside the Red Army (but had later declined to serve on the Eastern Front), pronounced them almost ready for battle...
...Catholic Slovak league (some leaders of which even in the U.S. have openly applauded Hitler's puppet regime in "independent" Slovakia) bitterly opposes him. Some of his fellow Czechs dislike his commitments to Russia. A personal friend of Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski, Benes is hated by Polish extremists, partly because he insists that any federation between postwar Poland and Czechoslovakia should be adapted to the wishes of the U.S.S.R...
...Polish Stand. For Poland's Premier in Exile, General Wladslaw Sikorski, the cleavage with Russia was a personal tragedy. Opposition Poles in Britain and the U.S.* have attacked him ever since he defied Polish tradition and signed a Polish-Russian pact in July 1941, followed it with a friendship declaration in December 1941. A patriot, liberal enough to be anathema to rightist emigrés, Sikorski has showed great political courage in trying to deal with Russia. For a time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal...