INTERNATIONAL: Shape of Uncertainty

Winston Churchill had reason to lower his head, glare, bark his characteristic short, harsh "rumph." He was not doing at all well in some of his dealings with the new giant of Europe, Joseph Stalin. Last week the endless battle of dissembled pressures went no better. After two more stormy sessions with Poland's distracted Premier in Exile, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Churchill found it necessary to send a second personal note to the impassive man in the Kremlin.

While the note was being prepared, elaborately unofficial sources let newsmen understand that a new, reluctant Polish offer fell far short of Moscow's categoric...

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