The article discusses the Polish foreign policy in the years 1945–1949 on the basis of political reports of the Diplomatic Mission of the Kingdom of Norway in Warsaw. What was given special attention was the evaluation of Poland’s relations with Germany and the Soviet Union, their influence on domestic and economic issues of Poland, including particularly the problem of the Polish western border, economic help for Poland and its relations with communist neighbours. The article consists of three essential parts. The first part addresses the problems connected with the location of the Norwegian diplomatic post in Warsaw, the role of the ambassador of Norway in Moscow Rolf Andvord. The figure of the extraordinary diplomat of Norway, Alfred Danielsen, was also presented here. This part also describes the difficulties connected with the organization of the diplomat’s work. The next part of the article contains interpreted reports of the Diplomatic Mission of Norway presenting the German problem in Poland’s foreign policy, in particular the question of recognizing Poland’s new western border on the Oder and the Lusatian Neisse. They include the commentaries of the members states of the Potsdam Conference: W. Churchill at the university in Fulton on 5 March 1946, the Foreign Secretary of the USA J. Byrnes in Stuttgart on 6 September 1946, and minutes from the sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers. The article stresses the contact between representatives of Poland and Norway in relation to their participation in the preparations for the London session in January 1947. The author analyzes the Moscow session (10 March–24 April 1947) and the last session in London (25 November–15 December 1947), which did not succeed in solving the German problem. The article also refers to Danielsen’s notes concerning the collapse of cooperation and the intention of the West to create West Germany, and in the East – the consolidation of the communist states under the protection of the Soviet Union. The article underlines the commentary of the Norwegian diplomats concerning the Warsaw conference of 23–24 June 1948, in which participated foreign ministries of 8 countries of the so-called people’s democracy led by the USSR. The third part of the article discusses and comments on the mutual relations between Poland and the USSR, and other Slavic countries, paying special attention to the visits of the Polish government’s representatives in Moscow on 23–26 May 1946, and next from 25 February to 5 March 1947. The article refers to the main problems and results of the visits presented in reports, including the most important relations of Poland with other Slavic countries, particularly with Czechoslovakia. Another important issue touched upon in the article is the Norwegian diplomats’ commentary to the process of the creation of the communist bloc in Poland and other Slavic countries, the Polish authorities’ increasing distrust of the Western diplomatic posts, including the Norwegian one, and various restrictions in mutual contacts. The article also stresses the real relations between Poles and the Soviets, as well as the role of Marshal Rokossowski.
The article presents stories of plagiarisms committed by Wincenty Rzymowski, a leading Polish journalist of the interwar period, the editor-in-chief of ”Kurier Poranny” and a member of the Polish Academy of Literature. Plagiarism was discovered by the editors of the right-wing weekly ”Prosto z Mostu”, edited and published by Stanisław Piasecki. Rzymowski in his journalism used excerpts from the work of the British thinker Bertrand Russell In Praise of Idleness and excerpts from the article of the French journalist Jean Prèvost, discussing the position of England against the Italian-Abyssinian conflict. The article focuses on the scope of plagiarism, the reactions of the Polish daily press and cultural weeklies, national, catholic, liberal-left and satirical, as well as the effects of the ruling of the Polish Academy of Literature, which pronounced on the accusation in consequence of which Rzymowski gave up from membership in Academy.
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