ALLIES OPEN DRIVE IN ITALY, GAIN UP TO 3 MILES (5/13/44)

The good Father was badly used by Stalin. He got multiple personal meetings with Stalin, unheard of for high officials, much less a private foreign citizen. And a piece of paper he could wave around.

Stalin knows the Red Army is poised to drive across Poland and he knows what he has in store for post-War Poland. He has Roosevelt completely buffaloed. A favorable report by a humble priest could head off the millions of Polish-Americans from putting pressure on Roosevelt to get tough with Stalin.

Russian policy for more than three centuries has been to occupy or dominate Poland as a buffer with Germany and the rest of Europe. What is happening in Ukraine today should make the Poles very nervous, as Putin wants to start expanding to the West.

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