Who's Who
Who's Who in the Lublin Committee of National Liberation TrllS puppet-government is formed largely of obscure people. Most of them have never been active in the Polish Underground. None of them...
...The head of this psrty and the chairman of the National Council, Holeslaw Berut, was absolutely unknown in prewar Poland...
...This group split several times...
...He was arrested by the Russians and kept in prison in spite of the Polish Government's interventions until he emerged as a member of the pro-Soviet Union of Polish Patriots...
...An exception will be mod* in the case of civil aviation, which as a part of the system of public communication will remain in possession of the government...
...Minzez, who replaced Mr...
...and is now Minister of Social Welfare in the Committee...
...This is true not only of those who were actually thrown into jail, but of those who went voluntarily te Russia— spiritually if not physically they are prisoners of the Kremlin, not free agents...
...At the head of the committee stands Osupka-Morawski...
...Practically all the rest of th* population above th* years of childhood is subject to labor conscription...
...Many of the members of the Lublin Committee and its followers have long been prisoners within Russia...
...They accept aa Inevitable the dominating influence of Moscow through Central and Eastern Europe...
...He escaped to Russia in 1939...
...Bolealaw Drobner, a former member of the Socialist Party (PPS), was ousted from the party before the war...
...Like other visiter* from British commonwealth* s* expresaea groat surprise aad J km* "J* at beiag eb* to go Ins* restauraata and hotels and order whatever fee* aad drink he Ilka* aad as much aa ho like...
...Before the war an obscure member of the PPS, he belonged to an oppositional group in the underground-labor...
...Mrs...
...Meeting under the auapicaa of the Red Army, the GPU, and the Workers (Communist) Party, the delegate* could hardly do anything except to vote with the usual totalitarian unanimity to support the Lublin Committee as th* sole legal government „ L. M. O. AUSTRALIAN LA BOB MMtsTlR IIPORTt SENATOR RICHARD KEAKE, Australiaa Mteieter ef Trade and Custom* in Prime*Minist*r John Curtia'* Labor government, has spent the past weak in New York examining American method* ef dealing with war enneganciea aad reporting on r**dltlOHI la hia awn reentry...
...As a result of war demands, immense new Industrie* have been built up in Australia with the aid of machine tools contributed by the United State...
...He was expelled from the, Peasant Party for hia dealings with th* Pilsudski regime, wa* deputy to tho Pilsudski parliament...
...Wanda Waailawska, a wife of Xornelchuk, Soviet-Ukrainian dignitary, the chairwoman of the Moscow Polish Patriots, i* a member of the Soviet-Ukrainian Communist Party and member of Suprem* Council ef the Soviet Union...
...None of them want to Buffer the fate of Ehrlich and Alter...
...Stan islaw Skrzeazewski, professor at the Teachers' College in Krakow, has always been a Communist, is now Minister of Education...
...These are now largely government-owned and operated...
...Nearly all the intellectuals of Poland joined in protesting this atrocity: Rzymowski justified ittlSuch is the Ambassador of the Lublin Committee tp Moscow...
...After nine years in the Polytechnic School he became assistant to Professor Zipser in the department of railways...
...he was afterwards deported to Siberia for unknown reasons...
...He accepted, later on during the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland, a high position in Soviet industry...
...The Lublin Committee has called "conventions" of the Polish Socialist Party and of the Peasant Party in liberated Eastern Poland...
...In hi* ceaatry eight out ef every tea man between It and 36 years of age are or have been In the arsaed service...
...Jan Grubecki, Minister of Communications in this puppet "government," Is the son of a wholesale meat dealer, who in early youth joined the ENDEK, nationalist youth organization...
...Thereafter he led his anti-Semitic and anti-labor group in breaking furniture and windows in the hall of th* National House...
...The man behind the scene is a Communist, Mr...
...Victor Gross, liaison officer with the foreign correspondents, a fanatical Stalinist for...
...Bozejsza, an old-time Communist, and Mr...
...He supported for many years the Pilsudski regime but before the war went into the opposition...
...Later in 1939 tried to organise in Lwow Aaao-ciation of Friends of Soviet Poland...
...he is a very well educated, but politically unreliable and nebulous personality...
...She is not a member of the Lublin Committee...
...Ha became one of the outstanding leaders of this movement, and an expert at breaking up labor meetings and organising anti-Semitic student demonstrstiont...
...This is a defense of one of the crimes of the prewar Pilsudski dictatorship—the imprisonment and torture of Pilsudski's opponents, among them Herman Liberman, Wincentzy Witos, Adam Ciolkoss, in the Brxesc fortress...
...Wincently Rsymowski, a well-known journalist, once involved in a scandal for plagiarising from Bertrand Russell, changed sides in his politics rather often...
...In his book, In Battle and Storm: Tadeusx Hotowko and His Times, published in 1933, Rzymowskj wrote: "The Polish worker gave hia approval to the Brxesc punishment...
...Keen* report*, Australia furnished th* American force* with reverse lend-lease good* te th* value of 1325,000,000.00...
...years...
...The Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet-Polish Army is General Kola Zymierski...
...The larger part returned to the Polish Socialist Party and a small group with Morawski joined a coalition with the Communists...
...The non-Communist groups in this committee represent email splinter groups of the major Polish parties and have no following or Influence in Poland...
...A clause in the Australian federal constitution requires that they be turned over to private operation as soon as the war emergency has passed...
...At a meeting of the Peasants Party in 1926, at Lwow, when Deputy Bryl returned from a trip to Russia, Grubecki threw chairs from the balcony on the heads of the audience below...
...Adrscj Witos, brother of the famous peasant leader Wlncenty Witos...
...Who's Who in the Lublin Committee of National Liberation TrllS puppet-government is formed largely of obscure people...
...he is an unknown figure in th* political life of Poland who was taken Into the Lublin "Government" only for his name, as a bait for the peasants...
...None of them had political influence in Poland...
...Supported by the fascist All-Polish Youth he waa elected to the board of the Fraternal Students Aid Association where again he distinguished himself as an anti-Semite, particularly in 1924 when in anti-Semitic riots many students were injured...
...That applies aura to th* now dismissed Mr...
...He is a professional soldier...
...The only real force in this committee seems to be the Communist Party, active at the present time in Poland under the name, "Polish Workers' Party...
...He voted for the constitution of 1936, now so abused by the committee...
...Jedsychowski, economist from Wilno, an old Communist, has been deputy to the Soviet created National Assembly of Lithuanian Soviet Republic...
...He belonged to the rightist opposition against Pilsudskl, had been dismissed from the si my after being sentenced for bribery, disappeared from the political stage for yeara until he reappeared in the rank* of the Polish units formed in th* USSR...
...During the last financial year, Mr...
...Emit Sommerstein, an able lawyer...
...Lampe, former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Poland, who died some time ago in Moscow...
...He repreaented the Lwow Zionists in the dictatorial parliament His group participated in the elections breaking the solidarity of the Polish opposition in boycotting the dictatorial election law...
...Tht editors of its papers are Mr...
...Grubecki brought about the expulsion of Jewish students from the Polytechnic Student* Association, snd led gangs of anti-Semitea in beating Jewa and throwing them out of the halls of th* school...
...The representative of the Jews in the committee ia Dr...
...It should be stressed that the propaganda and Information service of the Lublin Committee is entirely in hands of Communists...
Vol. 27 • December 1944 • No. 49
