Foreign News: Plain Talk from a Pole

Tough-talking, tougher-thinking General Wladyslaw Sikorski, head of Poland's Government in Exile, spoke up to Russia, the U.S. and Britain last week. Said he in London:

"I wish solemnly to state here, and with the greatest emphasis, that if, at the conclusion of war, our rights are not respected and our long and passionate devotion to freedom is not taken into consideration, all Poles, irrespective of religious or political creed, will be united to the last man to resist any claims which aim at the sovereignty of our country, from whatever quarter they might be raised."

Sikorski had his reasons for such...

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