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Premier Mikolajczyk's more passionately nationalistic colleagues had opposed this much of a concession. President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, a stanch Pilsudski man in his time, noticeably did not attend the conferences, reportedly threatened to resign rather than propitiate Moscow. Die hard General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, commander of all Polish forces, almost certainly threw the weight of the officer caste against conciliation. Many a Polish officer hails from the eastern provinces, thus has a personal reason for standing firm against Moscow...
Maneuvers. These Russia-distrusting Poles gave Sikorski no support in his efforts to heal the break with Russia. They tried to make General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces. He was a collaborator of Dictator Pilsudski, is backed by undemocratic officers in the Polish Army; he resigned from the Polish Government when Sikorski signed a pact with Russia...
Acting Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, well aware that future Poland must have Russia's good will and equally well aware that Sosnkowski's appointment would be a new irritation to Russia, handed his resignation to President Raczkiewicz. The British Foreign Office, working overtime to bring Poland and Russia into agreement again, may have voiced displeasure at the prospect of Sosnkowski. Whatever did happen offstage, at week's end it seemed clear that Acting Premier Mikolajczyk, leader of the democratic Peasant Party, would be made permanent Premier. General Sosnkowski was to resign as Deputy President, be appointed Commander...
...Door Is Open. This was a compromise; it would probably not satisfy anyone outside the Polish Government in Exile, least of all Russia. Since its army in Britain and the Near East is Poland's greatest military and political force until Polish soil is reconquered, Sosnkowski's political influence will probably exceed that of the Premier. The Russians have been frank in their distrust of Sosnkowski...
...Wladyslaw Sikorski put their names to a pact satisfactory to both countries. The treaty, under which Russia washed out the 1939 conquest but did not guarantee Poland's former boundaries, was officially approved, but many Poles found it far from agreeable. Two members of the Polish Cabinet (General Casimir Sosnkowski and Marjan Seyda) had steadfastly voted against it. Foreign Minister August Zaleski left the Cabinet before it was signed as a protest against adopting any treaty that was not unanimously approved...