Army brought with them from ·Russia and who had not taken any .part in the underground struggle iJl Poland·. The Sup;reme Council of the fake Party, ap_poi9ted after such a fashion, r~- ~olved i11f.ebruary 1945 to exclude from the Party the "leaders and a1,1t);iorsof the political al)d ideological front of the Wm". 'rlius, t,hese people, some of whom ·,'vere never in their life memhers of the PPS, had the effrontery to "e.+clud,e'' the m~st devoted and meritorious Socialist leaders of Pol;md,. T.~e Crime,a verdict on Poland A new great Soviet offensive in January 1945 cleared th Germans out of the rest of Poland. In most cases, local brai;icJies of the authentic PPS spontaneously welcomed the opportunjty L'f coming' into the open and ·resuming their activitjes. - The tiublin Committee having in the meantime styled itself to ProYisional Government of Poland (December 31st, l9i4), moved to Warsaw in the wake of the advancing :S,ussian armies. 'fhe history of the Russo-Polish 1,e[a,tions in the course of the war is too well known to require a repetition here. On February 12th, 1945, the heads of th~ governments of Great Britain, the U.S.A. and the U.S.S-R, assembled at Yalta, issued the declaration on Poland. On March 15th, 1945, the Suprimc Council of the autl1entic PPS -~1etsecretly under the chairman- :<hip of Zulawski to examine the new situation which had thus arisen. In this meeting, nearly all the surviving membe,rs of the l1tst duly elected pre-war Supreme Council, present at that time in Poland, took part. The Supreme Council -surveyed and aclmowledged the whole of the PM'ty's war-time und.ergrou.nd r.ctivities. While protesting against the injustice of the Crimea verdict on J>oland, they decided to take part in the consultations that were to lead to the formation of a '':Provisional Polish Government of National Unity".· Consequently, Comrades ;E'uzak and Pajdak accepted, together with fourteen other I'ol,es, au i11vitati.on from the Soviet military a,1thorities to take _part in conversatiOllS, intended to· achieve a settlement. The f;tte of these sixteen Poles, their arrest, trial and verdict at the-,.ha.nds of the Soviet autlwrities, is notorious• Coinrade ;E'uzak w_as_sentenced to one and a half years' penal servitude, and released lidor.e the expiratio11 of that term as a result of the Soviet amn.esty. Comrade Pajdak underwent a sep.Arate trial and ~v11s sentenced to five years penal servitude. He still remains in a Soviet prison. "T~e Provisional Government of National l:Jnity" Simultaneously with the trial of the Polish deleg_ates,.t,here started in Moscow negotiations on the formation of the "Pro:visional Polish Government of National Unity", to which t,he Commission of Three also invited Zygmunt Znlawski, ChairwaJ;L of the Supreme Council of the anthent.ic PPS, ivho took part in lhc 11e.gotiations, wit_bont, l1owever, OJ)tering the ll~W Govert1n1cnt, which was formed 011 Jure 28th, 1945. Thus, ·no repre6 BibliotecaGino Bianco
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