Foreign News: For a Free Poland

On the bronze statue in Lafayette Square, opposite the White House in Washington, is the inscription : "And Freedom Shrieked As Kosciuszko Fell." Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a Polish patriot who fought beside George Washington to bring freedom and independence to America. Later he fought in Poland against the invasions of Czarist Russia.

In Moscow last week it seemed fitting to the Union of Polish Patriots to name a division for Kosciuszko. The division was to fight beside "the heroic Red Army against the German invaders ... for the restoration of a free, independent...

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