It Happened last Week
OAK, LISTON M.
It Happened last Week By LISTON M. OAK The Red Army in Poland Red Army Cossacks have crossed the old Polish frontier. Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish government-in-exile: and Foreign...
...Ka czypski, leader of Christian Democratic Party (liberal Catholic...
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...n6t ottiv was the printing job of the first issue defective, but the magazine came out three days late...
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...They identify the present f'olinh government with the pre-war, semi fascist, ant) Semitic, dictatorial, imperialist government of feudal landlords and big indus trialists and generals...
...Other leading members of the Polish government arc: Jan Stanjeyk, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Socialist, secretary general of the miners' union...
...In addition, we want your criticisms, your opinions, your reports on local events...
...I'M further slyly intimates that the .....I...
...Henry K, Strassburger, an independent and a Jew...
...The fact is that Hitler could not find one Polish leader to .serve as a Quisling...
...It is estimated by some that the cost of the basic necessities of the ordinary family have increased by more than 40 per cent since 1941...
...They concede that the major powers must pull together to win the war...
...We are like other editors in this respect, and we eagerly await your reaction to our first effort in magazine format...
...You can help us with your constructive criticisms, which will be welcomed...
...It executives' salaries were in ¦ rased 81 per rent between...
...i "»i prices, says the Bureau >>i l>abor Statistics, have increased onl> 4.7 per cent, less than in preceding years, apd this is due to subsidies, now under attack by Congress...
...Rut it in not so good as we hoped rt would be...
...An article in the Polish newspaper Dziennik Polski in London asks whether the Russians are coming as liberators or conquerors...
...that the present attitude of the strong [powers} to the weak is beginning to play havoc with their morale...
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...After annexing the eastern half she would "compensate" Poland by "giving" her Kast Prussia and perhaps a slice or two of Germany to the west...
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...The conservative representatives in the Polish government are: M. Seida, moderate nationalist...
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...Insofar as our limited resources permit, we will try to make each issue better, in technique and in content, than the last...
...A metal worker, he is a leader of the Polish Socialist Party...
...I 1942...
...May we have a "birthday present" of at least one subscription in addition to your own...
...But they ure unanimous on the thesis that this war was begun on a question of high principle and that if this principle is now to be abandoned the war with all its terrible sacrifices will have been in vain...
...These two events emphasize the importance of the attempt by the U.8.A...
...You pay 5 per cast more for ¦hoes, but there may be 25 per cent less wear in them, their figures do not take into account black market prices on staples such as fruit, vegetables, meat, which workers may nave to pay to get enough to eat...
...Prime Minister Mikolajcyzk it* the leader of the Peasants Party, and of their cooperative movement...
...Labor statisticians are busy figuring out how and why these figures are wrong...
...What would be the reaction, the paper queries, if the invasion of France by the Allies were declared to be the prelude to the incorporation of Brittany into Great Britain...
...Reports indicate that Russia has plans for an entirely new Polish state, territorially and politically...
...Aside from our own shortcomings, and defects due to factors outside our control, the printing press broke down, and could not be repaired until last Monday...
...he was deported to Siberia by the GPU, but released when the Polish-Soviet pact of 1941 was signed...
...4: "The Russian occupation of Poland may cost Poland half her territory and all her sovereignty...
...and Britain to reconcile the differences between the two countries...
...The pre-war dictatorship persecuted and imprisoned numerous lenders of this party...
...Banaccek, Minis ter of the Interior, Peasant Party leader and director of the underground movement, jailed for six years by Pit vol-k...
...But from the Union of Polish Patriots organized by Communists in Moscow comes the ominous announcement that "Simultaneously with the Red Army's entry into , Warsaw, a new Polish government will be established...
...JNDBR SECRETARY «f *« V Hubert P Patterson has asserte, that somt of tke industrialists wh IfjaaM rk antes la tke renefotlatiei U« aft making aa high aa 50 pe east net pr»Bt...
...his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was freed by the 1917 revolution...
...baa half as much aa was paid to torkholders in ten years before i •• 1, 1939...
...We plan to have, eventually, a full page of letters from readers —you are cordially invited to contribute to it...
...Vice-Prime Minister Jan Khi pinski is president of the Polish trade unions...
...The Editors...
...The present 1'olish government-in-exile is thoroughly represents i i->e of the anti-fascist under ground Movement » hi...
...Hence...
...In fact, such a puppet government already exists in Moscow—and not only for Poland, but for other occupied countries to be liberated from the Nazis only to be dominated by Russia...
...When the Red Army invaded Poland under thp Stalin-Hitler pact of 19.19...
...Tadensz Romer, Foreign Minister, diplomat, former Ambassador to Moscow who always worked for friendly relations with Russia...
...Few realize how important to editors are letters front readers...
...The Bureau of Labor statisticians made several errors...
...He has fought Polish reaction all his life...
...Or if you have already done that, send some more...
...Mikolajccyk obviously is trying to blackmail the Soviet government with the threat of non-cooperation -or, per hspa, active hostility—by • of the Polish underground, unless Mowow yield* to the Polish government on the <|ue*tinn of restoration of the old i. ¦ .1...
...Already it is tragically apparent...
...We hate to make lachrymose appeals for aid— but the inexorable fact is that we must...
...Or better still, a few subscriptions...
...rhe Editors Apologize WF< hope you like the new format...
...Yet seldom, if ever, has Poland had one more liberal...
...S. The past week brought more subs into the office than any tveek since the launching of The New Leader...
...Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish government-in-exile: and Foreign Minister Taleusz Romer are on their way to discuss the irrepressible question of the Russo-Polish frontier with Roosevelt...
...Further, produc (ion of many cheaper goods has been curtailed or discontinued so that we have to buy more expensive goods...
...Later he was jailed by Pilsudski, pre-war Polish dictator...
...How much better we can make»7'nr Ne\v Leader depends on you...
...He was condemned to death in 1SM)7 as a leader of the underground socialist movement ugainst Tsarism...
...The Tint ken arm made au...
...Con-nervative and nationalist elements of Poland arc properly represented in the united front against German aggression, but they are in a minority...
...Polish officials in London have, however, instructed the Polish underground to concentrate in the fight against the Nazis...
...But until Feb...
...Popiel, leader of the Progressive Democratic Party...
...iKround wilt not obey its leader* abroad, became they are workers and of the Poli»h government-in-«xile...
...profit before taxes of nearly twenty unci- the «nnu«l profits in 1939 and 194...
...Ludwig Grossfelt, a Jew, Minister of Finance, a lawyer who defended Communists, Socialists, peasant leaders persecuted by Pilsudski's regime...
...Show these figures to your gr.wei , maybe you can convince him that prices should be only 4.7 per cent higher than last year...
...This is as iiii true as is the blithe assumption that Soviet Russia is democratic...
...The Kremlin lies when it calls these men fascists...
...The net profit after taxes, and kefore renegotiation, was $5 million " 1" " a"11 ""* halt times its profit* n svaraae pre-war years, and St per •e"t Profit on the net book valuation if ihe firm „l» tUt, timVn JXtrolt M"1 in lividends nearly three timr- the iveragj pre-war figure, and mot...
...inni-i-w Kot, Minister of In formation, Peasants Party, historian, who lost his university post for organ izing peasants strike against Pilsudski...
...Success or failure might mean future peace or war...
...peasant* who hate the fascist leaders is, of course, the propaganda of the Kremlin taking effect on the muddled .......I- of American liberals...
...Leadership is in the hands of representatives of the I'easanU Party, the Socialist Party, and the trade unions...
...Their figures do not take into account the deterioration of goods...
...That Cos* of Living Index . . . The cost of living went up 3.5 per cent in 1943, the Bureau of Labor Statistics asserted, or 24 per cent since January 1941...
...The terms of the new contract '•re called "atterly unreasonable" n iW...
...single copies 10 cents...
...These technical difficulties will be overcome, and our initial mistakes will be corrected...
...h it directs, and of the rolls h people It is dominated by democratic, liberal, progressive forces...
...One of them i Millard V Rockwell chairman ot the TimkenUetreit Axle Company *ith wham a sew eratraet was ne rotiated on Dec...
...William Philip Simms comments in the New York World-Telegram of Jan...
...Moscow does not like Poland's present government...
...The increased costs of production have forced us to raise the subscription price to $3.00 a year...
...Ka-marnicki, conservative nationalist...
...This Ik the most r>|il..-i i xitualion the war has < r. Hte«l A start v> i at i in I'M of Jan...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 2
