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Tough-talking, tougher-thinking General Wladyslaw Sikorski, head of Poland's Government in Exile, spoke up to Russia, the U.S. and Britain last week. Said he in London...
...Sikorski had his reasons for such inflammatory talk, but both the time and the tone were ill chosen. He and his Poles had been aroused by: 1) Russia's refusal to promise the restoration of Poland's eastern frontiers; 2) recent signs that Moscow is growing more & more distrustful of the Sikorski Government, which until lately seemed to be on good terms with Stalin; 3) the lack of any recent evidence that Great Britain and the U.S. will back Poland's claims against the Russians. In the making was a row which might easily wreck any hopes...
...Polish claim, based entirely on her possession after the aggression of 1920, is inextricably tied up with her internal political conflict which involves a more liberal element under General Sikorski disputing the Polish leadership with a powerful group which represents the old landlord-nobility-military coterie of pre-war days. This Junker-like school of Polish political thought, which had control in Warsaw under Mr. Josef Beck before the German invasion, has been termed Fascist-minded by the Soviet government, and is the Polish faction which is causing the Kremlin the most worry...
...masses of semi-enserfed labor, much of it of Russian origin, to work them. In spite of the huge plebiscite vote of the eastern provinces in 1939 to adhere to Russia after the fall of Poland, the Polish nobles in exile have brought great pressure to bear upon General Sikorski which has resulted in the current lack of harmony in Polish-Soviet relations...
...probable that Sikorski, a realistic soldier could be swayed to accept the Bug River line, which is ethnologically sound, militarily feasible, and politically sane, together with the friendship of Russia which he has helped create by numerous mutually useful pacts and agreements. The danger is that the power of the ultra-conservative Polish nobility will make Sikorski an inarticulate puppet when the time comes to face Stalin, who feels about Russia's western approaches much the same as Secretary Knox feels about our Pacific approaches, as the keystones of security...