Word: sikorskys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle for Europe bound to come with the end of the war. He learned English by doggedly rising each morning at 6 a.m. 'for an hour's study, impressed the British as a "man of distinction." In London Mikolajczyk's arguments with dynamic Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski brought out his special qualities. Slow, verbose Mikolajczyk always lost the verbal bouts to Sikorski. Mikolajczyk would withdraw in confusion, then write a laborious answer weighted with political idealism. Sikorski would read it, then sharply ask: "Well, what do you want to do about it?" Mikolajczyk always stuck...
...When Sikorski died in an airplane crash at Gibraltar, Mikolajczyk, at 42, became Prime Minister of the exile government. When Moscow created the rival puppet Polish government, which is still the hard core of the provisional regime in Warsaw, Mikolajczyk shuttled across half the globe -from London to Washington to Moscow-to see on what terms the Poles of London and the Poles of Lublin could get together. He talked and chain-smoked with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, parleyed with the Lublin left-wingers, worked out a compromise disowned by the right-wingers in London. He resigned in November...
...border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...
...State Must Be Created. Sikorski was cordial, sensible, farsighted. He said that the underground must be an actual state: "All the apparatus of a state must be created and maintained at all costs, no matter how crude...
With the tense haste of a man who knew it was now or never, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk summoned his Cabinet. In a paneled drawing room at No. 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, under a staring portrait of late great Premier Wladislaw Sikorski, apostle of Russo-Polishrapprochement, the ministers listened to the news. President Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, a diehard Russophobe, rose theatrically, said coldly: "I wash my hands of this." Then he stalked out. But his colleagues stayed on for hours of bitter but subdued talk...