Word: sosnkowski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well did Winston Churchill know that Premier Mikolajczyk's return to Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...
...matter up (but do little more) with his friend, Marshal Stalin. A more solid base for optimism was the way Roosevelt's reception had strengthened Mikolajczyk's hand for disposal of the Russian-hating, Russian-hated faction in the Polish Government in Exile headed by General Kazimierz Sosnkowski...
Were the stubborn Poles bowing at last to stubborn Russia? In London, the Polish National Council hotly debated the position of Russophobe General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Commander in Chief of the Polish armies and designated successor to exiled President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz. An ultranationalist of the old Pilsudski military clique, General Sosnkowski had long been anathema to Moscow, more potent than moderate Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
Last week the Premier and his fellow moderates got a lift from home. Three members of the Polish Underground brought word to London that the Polish people wanted General Sosnkowski stripped of his political power. Forthwith the Council, already astir with proposals to do just that, voted to let the General keep his military command, appoint a civilian Pole as successor to the Presidency...
Against the moderates stand the diehard and potent ultranationalists. In stormy sessions, men like General Kazimierz Sosnkowski have taken an adamant stand against Russia, have made their will prevail. All Poles have long memories of Poland's repression at foreign hands-Russian as well as Prussian and Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line...