title: THE PAPER TIGER: BRITAIN AND THE AFFAIR OF THE SIXTEEN
abstract: The arrest of fifteen senior political and military underground leaders including their translator on March 27-28, 1945?barely six weeks after signing of Yalta accords?and their subsequent interrogation caused a distinct cooling of relations amongst Big Three on Polish question in late spring and early summer of that year. At time, it appeared as if these events would scuttle Allied unity in their efforts to reach an agreement on vexatious question of creating a reorganized government of nationa