Fruits of Appeasement

Reluctantly, last week, the Polish Government in Exile made its most drastic gesture of appeasement to Moscow. It ousted anti-Soviet General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, commander in chief of the Polish Army, replaced him with General Bor (Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorow-ski), leader of the underground uprising in Warsaw.

To perform General Bor's duties in London, the Government in Exile appointed General Stanislaw Kopanski, lean, quiet, one-eyed engineer, who commanded the Polish forces at the defense of Tobruk. General Kopanski was said to be a "progressive," said to believe in "social reform."

No sooner was this concession made than Lublin touched off its verbal mortars. The top members of the Lublin government had been meeting in the Kremlin with Marshal Stalin and Foreign Commissar Molotov. Just 24 hours after this conference, the National Liberation Committee's Chairman Edward Osubka-Moraw-ski talked to foreign correspondents in Moscow's old Polish Embassy. He denounced General Bor as a "criminal against the Polish people," declared that, when Warsaw was liberated by the Red Army, General Bor would be arrested and tried for ordering the "premature uprising" against the Germans. General Rola-Zymier-ski, whom the Lublin government recognizes as the only commander in chief of the Polish Army, declared that General Bor had never been in Warsaw during the uprising, was now 20 miles away. Said the London Poles : General Bor had almost been killed in an attack on his Warsaw headquarters; Marshal Stalin had agreed unconditionally to help the Warsaw uprising.

For the Polish Government in Exile it looked uncommonly like heads I win, tails you lose.

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