Arthur Bliss Lane
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Arthur Bliss Lane (16 June 1894–12 August 1956) was the United States Ambassador to Poland (1944–1947). He wrote a book about what he considered to be the betrayal of Poland by the Western Allies, I Saw Poland Betrayed.
Lane was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He was appointed U.S. Minister to Nicaragua (1933–1936); Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (1936–1937); Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (1937–1941); and Costa Rica (1941–1942). He was then appointed U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1942–1944), and subsequently to Poland (1944–1947).
While in Poland, Lane was so saddened that he resigned his post (on February 24, 1947[1]) and wrote the book which detailed what he considered to be the failure of the United States and Britain to keep their promise that the Poles would have a free election after the war.
According to Lane, the U.S. and Britain at the Tehran Conference agreed to dismemberment of the eastern part of Poland. He considered it a breach of the United States Constitution, since Roosevelt never reported his decision to the Senate. The Yalta Conference was the death blow to Poland's hopes for independence and for a democratic form of government, said Lane.
After his death, Lane's papers were kept in Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library.
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