POLAND: In the Yalta Tradition

Yalta, Feb. 12, This Polish Provisional Government of National Unity shall be pledged to the holding of free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot. In these elections all democratic and anti-Nazi parties shall have the right to take part and to put forward candidates.

Winston S. Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt J. Stalin

In the schoolhouse at Lomianki, a village twelve miles from Warsaw, the desks had been pushed to the wall to make a waiting room for the peasants who had come to vote for the first time since 1935. Each...

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