RUSSIA MOVES WITH SPEED IN POLISH CONTROL
LONDON, November 8 (Rec. 11.10 a.m.). —Reuter’s Warsaw correspondent reports that Marshal Rokossovsky, the Warsaw-born victor of Stalingrad, took his seat on the Government front bench in Parliament there today, after the House had approved his appointment as; Minister of Defence and commander of the armed forces.
The Prime Minister, Mr Josef Cyrankiewicz, announced that Marshal Rokossovsky had accepted Polish citizenship. In Germany the British-licensed Telegraf comments: “The speed with which Marshal Rokossovsky has taken up his new role in Poland shows; that the Kremlin considers speed a necessity. The next few days will show whether the Kremlin also intends to place its Foreign Ministers at the disposal of its satellites.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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