Russia and the Poles
. There is a touch of the dramatic in the appearance of the Polish Premier, M. Mikolajczyk and the Foreign Minister, M. Romer, in Moscow at the moment when Russian guns are thundering at the approaches to Warsaw. Nothing could be more desirable than that the heads of the Polish Government should thus establish contact with Marshal Stalin, and their journey has the warm approval of both the British and the American Governments. Nor is there reason to suppose it anything but agreeable to the Russian authori- ties ; the welcome accorded to the visitors by M. Molotov was not merely correct but cordial. On the other hand, Marshal Stalin's decision to establish semi-diplomatic relations with the new Polish Committee of Liberation synchronised a little too suggestively with the arrival of the chiefs of the Government which all the Uni Nations except Russia recognise. There are delicate questions discuss, but the need for agreement is urgent in the interests of United Nations as a whole. The Polish Prime Minister is believ to be ready to make considerable concessions as the price of agr ment and the restoration of normal relations between Poland Russia ; he can, of course, not be expected to make them unl agreement is guaranteed. As the Russian armies advance deeper in Poland M. Stalin has increased opportunities of discovering the a tude of the underground movement, the great majority of wh members are believed to be firm supporters of the GoverrTment London. If that is so, the addition of some members of the mittee of National Administration to a reconstituted Cabinet tin M. Mikolajczyk should produce an Administration fully compel to take over some of the liberated districts forthwith.
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