In occupied Poland last week the Germans went into high gear with a Nazi propaganda campaign designed to persuade the Polish people to abandon all forms of passive resistance, "follow the wise example of France." Looking for a Polish Pétain, the Nazis approached the onetime Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Polish Sejm, tenacious and long-suffering Prince Janusz Radziwill. The landed, many-branched, internationally well-connected Radziwills, who trace their ancestry back to 15th-Century Ostyk Radziwill, are the Roosevelts of Poland.
When Poland fell last September, according to accounts from Polish refugees, soldiers of the Red Army seized Prince Janusz and...