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After Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski met death in a plane crash (TIME, July 12), Soviet Russia's official Izvestia had good things to say of him. The late Polish Premier and Commander in Chief "understood and appreciated the full significance of the struggle of the Soviet Union against Germany, for the common cause of all freedom-loving peoples." It was to be regretted that Sikorski's "desire for a strengthening of the friendship and collaboration between Russia and Poland was frustrated...
Largely through the influence of these men, Sikorski accepted a Nazi propaganda claim, charged the Soviet Union with killing Polish officers in Russia. Russia broke relations with Sikorski's Government, attacked it in official editorials...
Prodded by the British Foreign Office, Sikorski made some efforts to win back Russian recognition for his Government. In Cairo last week he said the peace to come should be based on a federated Europe, with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia forming the central bloc; the new Poland and its federated allies should have close economic relations with Russia...
...Polish Government in Exile appointed Deputy Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk acting Premier, said he had been a "collaborator" of Sikorski's. But if strong, smart General Sikorski had been unable to check Polish chauvinism, Mikolajczyk more than had his work...
Died. Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, 46, Unionist M.P. from Chippenham since 1924, onetime British squash racquets champion, political liaison officer to Premier of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; in their bomber's crash at Gibraltar...