Feelers in Poland
Weeks have now passed since the Yalta agreement on Poland, and among other reasons for speeding up the negotiations is the fact that it is extremely desirable that Poland should be represented at the San Francisco conference on April 25. The Arciszewski Government in London is as intransigent as ever, and the Polish Lublin Government is not much more forthcoming. But it appears to be the case that the Soviet Supreme Command is in touch and, indeed, conducting negotiations, with the military leaders of the Polish Underground Movement ; and also that the political leaders in Poland of the main parties which are represented among the exiles in Britain have disclosed their identity, and have expressed their willingness to attend a conference in Moscow. This indicates a movement towards a search for common ground which is the necessary preliminary to the setting up of an agreed Provisional Government. It seems that the Lublin Government will have nothing whatever to do with M. Mikolajczyk or anyone else among the London Poles, and that M. Arciszewski will have ,nothing to do with Lublin, though his friends in Poland are willing to negotiate, if not with Lublin, at least with the Russians. Here is a pretty tangle which can probably be solved only in one way— by Russia taking the lead in insisting on compromise. If she desires, and evidently she does, that Poland should be represented at San Francisco, she will have to take action quickly.
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