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Loose Ends. Solution of the central issue-the make-up of a new Polish government-left some loose ends dangling. Loosest was Tomasz Arciszewski's London Government, now definitely in the discard. Poland's heroic, well-trained army in exile was still under the London Government's command, and still unreconciled to the changes at home...
...response to all the criticism, Moscow did not explode and go its lone way, as it certainly would have done in the past. Instead, the Russians quietly released Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the London Poles', anti-Russian Premier, whose arrest in Poland had touched off a storm of British protest. If Yalta had done nothing else, it had put the Russians on their best public behavior...
...Parliament Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reported: "The Soviet Government has informed the British Ambassador in Moscow . . . that to meet the wishes of the British Government they are taking steps at once to set Mme. Arcizewska free." The elderly wife of Polish Premier Tomasz Arcizewski had been arrested in Poland by the NKVD (Russian secret police). Asked if there were any reasons for her arrest, the Foreign Secretary answered: "I have been given some, but I thought in the light of the happy conclusion to my inquiries it would be better to leave it there...
...Polish Government in London also was not too big to be defied. In Poland, Soviet authorities arrested Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the Polish London Prime Minister-or at least such was the report in London. When Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was questioned about it in Parliament, Soviet Ambassador Feodor Gusev rose and left the house...
...victims even of historical murder scream. The London Poles reacted violently. Said an official communiqué: "Violation . . . of the Atlantic Charter and the right of every nation to defend its own interests. . . . The fifth partition of Poland now accomplished by her Allies." Cried septuagenarian Premier Tomasz Arciszewski: "The Polish nation does not believe in the promises of Russia to guarantee a free, democratic Poland...