Foreign News: The Sacrifice

German might, Russian policy and the calculated indifference of Britain and the U.S. last week wrote bloody finis to a chapter of Polish history.

In 1939, as the Germans stormed into blazing Warsaw after a 20-day siege, the Warsaw radio went off the air playing Polish funeral hymns. Last week Warsaw died again (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). After a 63-day siege, a ferocious fight from building to building and block to block, the Partisan forces of General Bor (Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski) surrendered to the Germans. This time there was no aerial music.

There had been little aerial help either. During the first few...

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