"We lack food and medical supplies. Warsaw is lying in ruins. The Germans are murdering the wounded in the hospitals. They are driving women and children before their tanks as screens. Our sons are dying. The help that has come from Great Britain is insufficient. Hear us —Holy Father, Vicar of Christ."
This despairing cry of a nation in agony, slicing through the international joy over the liberation of Paris, was radioed last week to Pope Pius XII in the name of the women of Warsaw.
In Warsaw, as in Paris, the underground had...
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