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...boundaries. Then it was the Russians who were weak and the Poles, who disregarding the ethnologically just "Curzon Line" drawn at the peace conference, swept into Russia's easternmost provinces and incorporated them by the treaty of Riga in 1921. It is this Treaty which Stalin denounced after Sikorski's rejection of the Polish Soviet Treaty of 1939, which reestablished the border at the Bug River...
Exiled Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski made the two men members (in absentia) of his temporary Polish Parliament. Poles in London and the U.S. tried to obtain the pair's release, and arranged for visas to the U.S. Trade-union leaders, Jewish organizations and such U.S. figures as Raymond Gram Swing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer...
...inhabitants of East Poland, the Polish Government in Exile last week denounced the Polish Soviet Treaty of July, 1941 as unilateral and intimated that it expects Poland's post-war eastern frontier to be restored as of September, 1939. "Tass," Russia's official news agency, answered by charging Premier Sikorski and his refugee cabinet with the "imperialistic" desire to hold against their will the four million Russians put under Polish rule by a peace treaty of 1921. The Soviet organ also leveled an accusation at the Poles for their "Fascist-minded" pre-war government under Colonel Beck...
...host to two more distinguished foreign visitors who came to talk of the post-war world: suave General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government-in-Exile. and grey, careful William Lyon Mackenzie King, Premier of Canada. (Canada and the U.S., in an exchange of notes last week, agreed to post-war attempts to reduce tariffs and eliminate other trade barriers...
...been Russian before 1918 as well as between June 1940 and June 1941). Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was presently embarrassed by a protest from a delegation of 20 ultra-Conservative M.P.s, headed by excitable Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, whose present job is aide to Poland's General Sikorski. In the House of Commons, Wing Commander Archibald William Henry James tried to wring from the Government the assurance that no post-war territorial settlement would be made without first submitting the proposal to Parliament...