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100 1  Ciechanowski, Jan, |d1887-1973
245 10 Defeat in victory / |cby Jan Ciechanowski.
260    London : |bVictor Gollancz Ltd., |c1948.
300    xvi p., 1 leaf, 397 p. ; |c22 cm.
337    Moving image
505    Getting accredited -- Lend-Lease points the way, April 1941 -- "Change partners," June 1941 -- Poland, the test case -- Collaboration -- Storm signals up -- Sikorski and Stalin, December 1941 -- Tactics versus policy -- Launching the United Nations, January 1, 1942 -- Russia demands a second front -- America checks British appeasement, May 1942 -- Moscow obstructs formation of Polish forces -- Fear of Russia grows -- "Soviet enigma" puzzles Washington -- Stalemate at Casablanca, January 1943 -- Trifling with principles - at Poland's expense -- Soviets break with Poland, April 1943 -- Exit Comintern, enter wishful thinking, May 1943 -- Sikorski killed -- Poland fights on Seesaw at Quebec, August 1943 -- Will America and Britain pull together? -- Mr. Hull flies to Moscow, October 1943 -- Mr. Stettinius at the State Department -- The pattern crystallizes -- From Moscow to Teheran [i.e., Tehran], December 1943 -- The "veto" sneaks in -- First fruits of Moscow and Teheran -- Marking time in Washington -- London compromises, Washington hesitates -- D-Day and politics -- Red carpet for Mikolajczyk, June 1944 -- Diplomacy or politics? -- Soviet "realism" versus good will -- Pressure diplomacy -- Teheran commitment confirmed -- Operation "Four Freedoms" -- Total surrender at Yalta, February 1945 -- The world looks to America -- Test case dismissed.
520    "This book is the true picture of events and trends of policy as I saw them developing on the Washington scene during the four and a half years of my last diplomatic mission as Ambassador of Poland in the United States. It is a personal record of my observations and opinions ..."--Foreword.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |zPoland.
651  0 Poland |xForeign relations |zUnited States.
651  0 United States |xForeign relations |zPoland.
651  0 United States |xForeign relations |y1933-1945.
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