I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American Ambassador Reports to the People PDF
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DELHI UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 01.No. VS'SSi \ v W 5“ H 6323b Bate ofreleaseforloan Ao No - - This book shouldbereturnedonor before the date last stamped %elow. Anoverdue obarge ofoneannowillbechargedforeachday thebook is keptovertime* SAW POLAND BETRAYED I Carble ARTHUR BLISS LANE /Saw Poland Betrayed AN AMERICAN AMBASSADOR REPORTS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by ARTHUR BLISS LANE UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO POLAND, 1944-1947 "They enslave—their children's children who make compromise with sin.” James Russbll Lowell, "The Piesent Crisis" THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Publishers INDIANAPOLIS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1948, BY ARTHUR BLISS LANE PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FirstEdition To the Memory of Peggy Foreword Immediatelyfollowing theelections ofJanuary 19, 1947, inPoland, I determined to resign my position as American Ambassador. My — mission to ensure that "free and unfettered elections" should be — held had been a failure. To remain in Warsaw would be inter- preted as tacit acquiescence in the fraudulent methods employed in the elections. Furthermore,I feltstrongly thatthe factswhichhadbroughtabout the tragedy of the Polish situation should be placed publicly on the record. Thiscouldnotbe donesolongasIremained anofficialofthe United States Government; for the factswould indicate not only the intellectual dishonestyoftheSovietandPolishGovernments,but also thegrievouserrorswhichourowngovernmenthadmadeinfollowing a policy of appeasement in its dealings with Stalin. My resignation wasaccepted, totakeeffectonMarch31, 1947,withtheunderstanding ofPresidentTrumanandoftheActingSecretaryofState (DeanAche- soli) that Iwould tell the story as I had seen it. TheDepartmentofStatekindlyallowedme torefreshmymemory on the happenings during myAmbassadorship by putting at my dis- posalthepertinentdocumentsdealingwiththatperiod. Buttheviews expressedin this volume are solely my own and are in nowise to be interpreted as those of the United States Government, with which I am no longer connected. IfIhaveseemedtomakeexcessiveuseofthefirstpersonalpronoun — — in thisvolume aswell as inits title it isbecause I have wished to emphasize that this is a first-hand and personal account of what I have seen and experienced: the consecutive steps in the formation of a puppetpolice state. Where I have not given the names of informants still resident in
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