POLAND: New Cabinet, Old Talk

A new Polish Government in Exile was announced in London last week by President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz. It was somewhat to the left of the government of General Wladyslaw Sikorski. The new Premier: Peasant Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, no surprise. New Foreign Minister: Tadeusz Romer, quite a surprise.

Tadeusz Romer is a career diplomat who knows how to get on with any government. As Polish Ambassador to Japan until Pearl Harbor, he got on so well with the Japanese that he was able to get clothes, money and passage for Polish refugees stranded in Japan....

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