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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S
““TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY”
WAR MEMOIRS
CHAPTER 10
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
WARSAW
into
The Commander of the Meanwhile, the battle went Polish Underground Army on street by fireet against the German "Tiger" tanks, and by 34 60,000 meri, Gen.
Aug. the Germans had driven Bor Komorowski, was
a wodge right across the vlly authorised by the exiled through to the Vistula, break- Government to proclaim ing up the Polish-held districts
Isolated zeelors. 1 general Insurrection enllant altemple of the when opportune. Moscow with Polish, British and radio on July 29, 1944, Dominion
crews, to fly to the
from
Italian broadcast an appeal from ald of Warsaw the Polish Communists to bus were both forlorn and inadequate. Two planes ap- the people of Warsaw, peared on the night of Aug. 4, calling for "direct, active and three four nights later. struggle in the streets"
now
T
ຕ
the
und
ommuni-
1
serted geta afoot,
INSURRECTION
but they some tlays, and sent messages to can easily prevent it by Meacow vla London urging operations well within their support for the insurgents, power, It certainly is very
Presi- appealed to tho curious that at the moment dent end we sent the following when the Underground Army joint appeal, which the Pre- has revolted, the Russian sident had drafted: armles should have halted their offensive against War- Baw and withdrawn some distance.
und
a
For them to send in all the quantities of machine-guns ammunition required by the Poles
their heroic for fight would involve only flight of 100 miles.... I think it would be better if you sent
to Stalin message through Molotov referring to the implications that are afoot in many quarters, and re- questing
Russians that the should send all the help they
can....
Last night 28 aircraft
publicity for the facts abcut the agony of Warsaw, which SCOTTI, from the papers, to have been practically slip- presiod? It is not for us to
cast reproaches on the Style: Government. but
surely the
facts should be allowed to speak for themselves.......... The Provident now replied to my
telegram: President
Minister
Roosevelt to Prime
24 Aug. 44 Thanks for
telegram describing the inhuman be haviour of the Nazis and the dreadful situation
the of Poles in
In Warsaw. Stalin's reply to our joint proposal
for us:isting the Warsaw Poles is far from ea. couraging,
Prime Minister and President Roosevelt to Marshal Stalin 20 Aur. 44 We are thinking of world opinion if the anti-Nazia in Warsaw are In effect
We believe abandoned.
that all three of us thould do the. utmost to save as many of
the patriots there as possible. We hope that you will drop im- mediate supplies and muni- tions to the patriot Poles in Warsaw, or will you agree to doing it help our planes in very quickly? We hope you will approve. The time el
The supply by us of the
I am
in- Warsaw Poles is, of extreme limport- ment is did
formed, impossible unless w are permitted to lend and take off from Soviet airfields. Their use for Heose
the rellet t Warsaw
present pro- is ut
the hibited by
Russian authorities.
the 700 miles flight from Italy. Three were lost, Tals was the Kurth dight mode from here under these quite exceptional conditions.
N
that Soviet guns were within hearing.
THE Polith Prime Minister, Mikefalczyk. had been in On August 1, with the
since July 30 trying 10 Moscow Kursinns less than
kin 1 to establish miles from the city, the terms with the Soviet Govern- recogulsed Polish Underground Com; meat, which had
Com- Communist mand ordered a general the Telish
mitce of National Liberation insurrection.
Fs the future administration of HE 1:CWB reached the country. There negotiations
next. London
day, were carried on throughout the
of
Warstw anxiously early days and やむ waited for more. The rising.
Montages from Gen. For Soviet radio was silent and
reaching
Like alczyk shinsky asked the U.S. the night of Aug. 16 were
boggior for Russian air activity ceased.
daily,
and anti-tank weapons Ambassador in Moscow to call. On August 4 the Germans (len
frum the Red for help
und, explaining that he wished started Lo attack from and
Meanwhile, the Russians vold the possibility of mis- Army, strong-points which they pressed for agreement upon the understanding, read out the fol
the city postwar held throughout
frontiers of
lowing astonishing statement: Poland
The Soviet a joint
Government and suburbs. The Polish and the setting up of
A Inst
fruitless
cannot, of course, object tn Government in London told Government.
English or American alrerati us of the agonising urgency talk took place with Stalin on
Aug. 9. On Aug 12
dropping arms in the region 1 tele
of Warsaw, since this is on of sendfor in supplies by air, graphed to him:
American and British affair. 1 accordingly telegraphed
But they decidedly, objevt to to Stalin.
American or British aircraft, Prince Muister En Markliat
after dropping arms in the 4 Aug. 44 Statin.
region of Warsaw, landing on urgent request At
Soviet territory, since the So- Underground Army-
vict Government do not wish dropping, subject to
to associate themselves either tons about 00
with the and ammunition
Polish
we are
weather,
equipment into
of
of
the southwest quarter
of Warraw, where it la sold a The Polish revolt
against Bat
Germons is in fierce struggle. They
they-ap-
also say peal for Russian aid, which seems to be very near. They being attacked by 12 This may German divisions.
Dre
be of help to your operation. The reply was prompt and
Marshal
Stalin 10 Prine
Alinister...
$ Aug. 44 I think that the in- Lovision which has been the communicated to you by Poles is greatly exaggerated
and does not
fidence. One could conclusion
even
con-
inspire
reach that from the fact that the Polish emigrants
already claimed have
for themselves that they all but captured Vilnia with a few
units
Home of the stray
annquired Army, and even that on the radio. But thai, of course, does not In any
I have had the following distressing message from the Poles in Warsaw, who after 10 days are still fighting ngalost considerable. German. forces who have cut the city into three:
"To the President Republic,
of the the Government and the Commander-In-Chiel," from the Vice-Premite:
Tenth day. We are con- ducting a bloody Oght. The town la cut by three
routes .... On the German-Russian front silence since the 3rd.. The soldiers and the pópula- tion of the capital look hope- the skles, expecting lessly
at from help
the Allles, On the background of
moke alr- they see only German craft. They
surprised. feel deeply depressed, and begin to
revile....
are
"Have you discussed in
Moscow help for Warsaw? ] repeat emphatically that without Immediato support. consisting of drops of arms and ammunition, bombing of objecives held by the enemy, and air landing, our fight wili collapse in a few days. With
the above-mentioned-help-he fight will continue. I expect from you the greatest effort in this respect,"
They implore machine-guns and ammunition. Can you not give them some further as the distance from Italy is so very great?
help, lew de
nor
+
way correspond with the facts. of the The Home Army Poles consists of a techments which they In- correctly call divisions. They
neither artillery have nireraft, nor tanks. 1
N Aug. 14 I telegraphed to Mr kich cannot (Aug 14 telephewher Imagine how ments' can capture Warsaw, I had gone to ace Feld-Marshal for the detence of which the Alexander's army: Germans have produced four tank divisions,
among them the. Hermann Goering Divi-
slon,
directly of War
adventure in On the same day I receivett the following message, couched in softer terms, from Stalin:
·
ance.
Prime
This was the reply we got: Marshal Stalin 10 Minister and President volt 22 Aug. 44.
I have received the mess- age from you and Mr Roose- velt about Warsaw. I wish to express my opinions,
of
his
truth
be overwhelmed by the Ger- mans, as we are told they must be within two or three days, the shock to public opinion here will be incalcul- able. The War Cabinet them- selves And it hard to under- stand
YOURC
Government's refusal to take account of the obligations of the British and American Governments to help the Poles in Warsaw.
Your
in
Government's netion preventing this help being rent seems to us at variance with the spirit of Allled co- operation to which you and we attach so much importarce both for the
prerent, and the future.
of regard Out
for Marshal Stalin and for the Soviet peoples, with whom it is our earnest desire to work In future years, the War Cabinet have asked me to make this further appeal to the Soviet Government to give whatever help may be in their power, and
do not see what further s'eps we enn take at the pre- send time that promise results. [The Prime Minister sug- nested a joint message to Slatin proposing the despatch of U.S. aircraft from England to land behind the Russian Hues, "unless you (Stalin) directly forbid it. Mr Rouseselt declined to be associated with such a message.] on
above all to provide facilities for United Slates aircraft to land on your air- Пelds for this purpose.
of
N Sept. 10, after six weeks of Polish turment, the Kremlin appeared to change their tactics, That of ocoon entis frem. the Soviet artillery began to fall up- the castern outskirts
and Soviet Warsaw,
planes again appeared
over the city, Polish Communist forces under. 1 I received the Soviet orders, fought their way Polish Premier, Mikelańczyk, Into the fringe the
of capital. on his return from Moscow. I
From Sept. 14 had little comfort to offer. told me that he was prepared to suc
Force Air
dropped but few opened and many of
N
Ho
onwards the
of
the
with the Lublin [Polish Come to Mediners were smashed and
the
offering
selesa.
The following day the In a combined Russians scrupled the Prage
but went no farther. suburb, They wished to have the non- Communist Poles destroyed the full, but also to keep alive the idea that they were going to
their rescue.
10
Sooner or later the about the group of criminals who have embarked on the Warsaw adventure' in order to seize power will become These known to everybody, people have explolied the good faith of the inhabitants Warsaw, throwing many almost unarmed poeple against
the German guas, tanks and aircraft. A sus- tion has arisen in which each Sept. new day serves, not the Poles for the liberation of Warsaw, but the lentes who are a humanly shooting down the inhabitants of Warsaw. propose a political settlement supplies:
From the military point of
Committee. situation view, the
which munist] arlsen, by increasingly them 14 seats directing the attention of the Government.
These proposals were debated Germans to Warsaw, is just
Red under fire by the representa ns unprofitable for tho
Lives of the Polish Underground Army as for the Poles. There can be no doubt that in Warsaw itself. The sugges the Red Army is not eparing tion was accepted unanimously, its effor's to break the Ger- Most of those who took part in Meanwhile, house by house, the
wore tried round Warsaw and to these decisions
Germans proceeded with their Warsaw for the Palea, year later for "reason" before liquidation of Polish centres of
Soviet court in Moscow. will be the best and
resistance throughout the city. When the Cabinet met on the effective help for
fearful A
fate
the bofell anti-Nazis. night of Sept. U thought the
Population. Many were deport sue so important that, though ed by the Germans, Gen, Bor's had a touch of fever, I went oppels to the Sovet commander,
our under-
Gen Rokossovsky, were the President and the Soviet round room. We had met to answered. Famine reigned,
gether
unpleasant London an in
My efforis to get American aid the affairs. I do not remember any account of
led to one isolated but large- cecasian when such deep anger of the SB and
18, Wehrmacht in Warsaw,
was shown by all our members, scale operatica. On Sept. and
104 heavy bombera flew over of the desperate fighting still Tory, Labour, Liberal, alike.
I should have liked
the capital, dropping supplies. In progress there.] have been if the Soviet com- THE only means com. "We are sending our aeroplanes It was too late. On the evening.
of
after of Oct. Premier Mikelejezvk mand had been informed be- I
munication between the delivering suppiles to Warsaw. came to tell me that the Polish ore the beginning of the different sectors held by the If you do not treat them pro- forces in Warsaw were about to Warsaw action and if the Poles lay through the gewers. Germans threw hand- grenades and gas bornbs
in
After the conversation with M. Mikołajczyk I gave orders that the command of the Red Army should drop arms in- the Warsaw tensively sector. A parachutist liaison officer was also dropped, who. according to the report of the accord command, did not reach his objective, as he was killed by the Germans.
con.
Further, having familiarised myself more closely with the Warsaw affair, 1 am
the Warsaw represents a reckless and terrible adventure which
vinced that
action
is costing the population large sacrifices, This would not
mons
froo Thot
most
Polas who
aro
★
the
The Prime Minister, sent
Ambassador
eye-witness behaviour
Poles had maintained contact The with it.
Oghters
from my
bed ta
on many
to land in
your
territory
to say,
all
convoys will
dom
be aurrender to the Germans. this moment by
+
un-
In the situation which has the manholes, Battles develop-u
between the Soviet commona ed in pitch darkness
But the reader of these pages NE of the last broadcasts from trisen
the herole city was picked up has come
excrement, in after-years must realise that. to the conclusion men walki-deep in that it must. disspelate self fighting hand-to-hand at time everyone always has to keep in in London, from the Warsaw adventure, wih kalves or drowning their mind the fortunes of millions of а worldwide as it cannot take either direet opponents in the elim. Above en fighting in
Artillery and struggle, and that terrible and or indirect responsibility for ground, German the Warsaw action.
submissions areas Even humbling
must at times be made to the According
the city. 10 Mikołajczyk's of light large
I did not there- account, the first paragraph of Ihough: that some of this tale general alm. this telegram is quite untrue. of villainy and horrer should tere profcle this drastic step.
11 might have been effective, I will cause the Russians Two officers arrived safely in reach the world.
dealing with much annoyance if the sug- Warraw and were received by Prime Minister to Minister of becauso we were
men in the Kremlin who wire gestion that the Polish the Polish command. A Soviet Information
23 Aug. 44 patriots in Warsaw were de- colonel had also been there for
Is there any stop on the governed by calculation and not by emotion. They did not mean
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
can summer,
where
spend your travel beat their relatives to
to keep themselves warm.
N
W that you
here is the first brochure custem.
they
death
allowance in Russia, As this is an old S❘berlan
for tourists who want
spend their holidays
lovely Siberia.
to rather scarce. Sometimes
sole survivor
as if the drains in the old ancestral hall WES pretty high, what, what, what.
عا
Now I know mean.
what they
let the spirk of Poland rise. again at Warsaw, Their plans were based on the Lublin Com- mitice. That was the only Poland they cared about,
The English are go-getters THE cutting off of the con- this critical at
who never look AN I theyTHE
relativos
arc Low the
in
of these
winter orgics will travel 500 miles to what he laughingly calls
Д
in somebody else's relatives.
they, often
Although I have always thought that yours
the In the swellest little chassla world, and would bile the
who said t ears off any caf wasn't, I never thought you
Over had brains - Loo,
here AY the English qulat with their manners and innocent looks.
good.
Do you want to experi- neighbouring village to borrow
something
ence
travel, travel that
new
will not Therefore visitors who mind
fool you want
enly broaden the
but "to do as Rome does" and keep broaden-well, the body, as themselves warm at the same you sit for weeks on end in time are advised to take their
or
▲ crowded railway carriage own relatives for this purpose,
molor-coach,
Apart staring
Governmmt from through quaintly dirty win- sples there are no unofficial dows ni endiers wastei of guides In Siberia as there are nothing at all?
In Paris. But for a couple of photo- you can buy Do you want to viatt a kopeks
of expanses than graphs of vast place that is drearler
which the Siberians English seaside resort ow
an
In winter, windler than an proudly call the cleanest plc- English fallway station In ture postcards in the world.
a January gale, and
friendly as an English county Paws Across Sea hotel where tho county:
people shout at each other as ....................................................................................... they group themselves round the jounge fire,
the visitor corner?
to "shiver
in a
DEING letter from Man
Hya Sugarpuar, i
leaving Battan Mauser, New York cat-about-town, to his English Do you
want absolute sweetheart Lotte. peace and gulet, terally 1,000 miles from anywhere, in the wilder parts of the Russian Empire,
where fow English and are too frightened to In case they
сал
opeak
speak Ruslari
say the wrong thing?
I see by the noospapers flown over here that you have joined another outfi 'I
write to congratulate you and to say how much 1 sdmira your enterprise as I always thought you was beautiful but-
Take dumb
those
snooty English dames you see in your.
dolled high-class magasines, 'opʻla ritsy tweeds and lookin an Englian
TONC
of
Perhaps the
Siborla
chief charm
les int little villages, where the winter, Is even colder than
PARAATIAN AHLER
(DRAWN BY CUBBINS),
Voys
around when the going's much 14
ad-
kayo.
of
are likely to go anywhere or moment in their grept
boy, oh get anything. But,
vance would perhaps boy they certainly, do mene
bulked In their
minds considerations honour, humanity, decent com- As I missed the Corona- monplace good faith, usually tion because Senator Joe Me- count with ordinary people. Carthy grilled те for · [The Prime Minister again month about a "More Chow appealed to Mr Roosevelt" on in the Ash Cans for Alley Sept. 4 to drop suppiles and Cais" proccasion I led through || land on Russian airfields with- Broadway when I was out their prior consent. He also
kitten,
10
I shall 20 coming forwarded the text of the follow- over on the next liner sailing ing telegrain, sent to Moscow east to make up for all the the same day.) time you have been out of
ww
short
my arms, Honeyeat. Maybe I will stay for Chrisimas
to be you don't seem of turkeys any more. Maybe we could go places with sume of the dough you are selling. The only thing that makes me mad about your noo sp- pointment Is the dovil cat picture they printed of you with horns, cloven hoof and a forked tall.
been
Unless yo have foolin mo again you sto per- tainly, no devil, Sugarpuas. And I am glad to say you are ecrtainly no angel, either, a I have no time for angelle dames,
I prefer to think of you as
In you sppear my hand. painted necktie,
Keep those hips swingin, Honeycal. I am on my way,
· Manhattan Mouser..
the
This is the stark truth. We were treated
than worec Hier's satelites, worse than Italy, Rumania, Finland. May Ged, Who is just, pass Judg- ment on the terrible injustice suffered by the Polish nation, and may He punish accord- ingly all
those who are guilty. Your heroes are the soldiers whose only weapons against tanks, planes and guns were their revolvers and bolles fill- ed with petrol. Your herces ure the women who tended
the wounded end carried messages under fire, who cook- ed in bombed and ruined cellars to feed
fed children and adults, and who soothed and Your comforted the dying. herces are the
children who went on quietly playing among the smouldering ruins. These are the people of Warsaw.
Immerial is the nation that сап muster such univeraal heroism. For those who have diod have conquered, -and those who live on will fight on, will conquer and again bear witness that Poland lives when the Poles live.
in
of the revolt cost
The War Cabinet wish THESE words are indelible. The
struggle Soviet
Warsaw had Government to know that public opinion in larted more than 60 days. Of th this country is deeply moved 40,000 men and women of the by the events in Warsaw and Polish Underground Army about- by the terrible sufferings of 15,000 were killed. Out of a the Poles there. Whatever population of one million, nearly the rights and wrongs about 200,000 had been stricken. The the beginnings of the Warsaw suppression rising, the people of Warsaw the German Army 10,000 killed, themselves cannot be held 7,000 mi
missing and 9,000 wounded. responsible for the decision The proportions at'ed the hand- the fighting taken.
to-hand character of
When the Russlars entered Our people cannot under- stand why no material help the city three months later they har been sent from outside found Hille but shattered streets to the Poles in Warsaw. The and the unburied dead. Such fact that such help could not was their liberation of Poland, be sent on account of your where they now rule. But this Government's refusal to allow cinct be the end of the story. United States dircraft to land
on
-nerodromes. in Russian
**hands
now becoming
publicly known.
(Continued Tomorrow),
production,
on top of all this the World Copyright reserved. Re- even" partially, In Poles in Warsaw should now any language, strictly prohibited.