Dressing Down

Smarting from U.S. protests over, its rigged elections, Poland thought it had a new Ambassador who would soothe the suspicions of the U.S. in general, and of Polish-Americans in particular. It sent to the U.S. a man who had once been a member of the U.S.-backed London

Government-in-exile, was only recently a convert to Poland's Communist-dominated Government. Officially he was a member of the Young Catholic Party, which is part of the Government bloc, but has a name which Warsaw hoped might lead some in the U.S. to think the opposite.

Last week Ambassador Jozef Winiewicz presented his credentials to President Truman. President Truman replied with a brisk dressing-down: "It is a cause of deep concern to me and to the American people that the Polish Provisional Government has failed to fulfill that pledge [to hold free elections]." The Polish-American press chimed in. Crowed Chicago's Dziennik Zwiazkowy: TRUMAN

SPANKS THE REGIME.

In case there was any doubt about the U.S. stand. State Secretary George Marshall three days later summoned U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane from Warsaw "for consultation."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.