INTERNATIONAL: Wedlock & Deadlock

The Russian political offensive against the Polish Government in Exile gathered power and speed. In London, the Poles dithered. With an increasingly tense air of hush-hush, the British tried hard to find an acceptable compromise. The Moscow-formed Union of Polish Patriots set up a national council in Poland which could easily and quickly become a Polish government acceptable to Moscow. For the Russians' money, the argument would then be over. But Britain and the U.S.

would then have to decide what to do about the Polish Government in Exile, which they have sheltered and recognized since the war began.

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