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THE POLISH-AMERICAN LEFT
16 JUNE 1944,_
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The coalescence of ultra- and moderate- rialionalisl Polish-.
American forces in the Polish American Congress which
.met at Buffalo 28-30 May has tencle,d to divert attention from
Me less numerous but also .wel1 organized forces which corn-
� prise the Jilt wing of Amerin rolonia. Consisting for the
most part of labor elements Jrbrn the industrial area around
the Great Lakes, the Left itself is divided into a pro-Soviet
camp varjausly organized by such leaders as Lea Krzycki,
Father Ortemanski, and Oscar Lange, and a group of factions.?
recently stirred by this pro-Soviet activity into rallying fresh
support to the cause of the Polish Government-in-Exile.�
WITH the development of the Polish-Soviet Russian controversy and
its injection into American party politics the struggle for thv'politica)