Word: sikorskys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polish Unreality Sirs: With a colossally characteristic disregard for reality, Poland's General Sikorski dares speak now of the reapportionment of Eastern European territory after the present conflict is over...
TIME, April 12, speaks with typical candidness in mildly stating that "... both the time and the tone [of his statements] were ill chosen." Instead of pleading with the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to re-establish a Poland, Sikorski goes ahead and formulates plans for a miniature cordon sanitaire composed of small eastern countries to block off Russia, and even entertains hopes of acquiring Czecho-Slovakian territory...
...thousands of Polish heroes who died to prevent just such depredations . . . would, if they could, speak up to Mr. Sikorski and the Government in Exile, urge them at least to temper their demands upon Allies who are at present . . . busy fighting and winning the war so that nations like Poland may again exist...
...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...
...important segment of U.S. opinion became snarled in a Russo-Polish controversy which played directly into the hands of German propaganda. Involved were ancient Russian and Polish hatreds, a current controversy over Poland's postwar boundaries, a widening breach between Moscow and exiled Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski, and Catholic distrust of the U.S.S.R...