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A NNA Louise Strong, in

the March issue of
SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY re-
lates the true uprising as
told her in Praga by Lt. Gen-
etal Korcezyz of the First
Polish Army.

The direct cause of the utter
destruction of one of Eurape’s
great capitals — Warsaw for-
merly had a population of a
million and a half and is now
probably the greatest single
pile of ruins anywhere on earth
—was the uprising staged by
General Bor under the instruc-
tions of the Poles from London
without consultation with the
Red Army. The Red Army’s
strategy was to take the city
by encirclement, preserving the
capital and the population, but
this required the longest and
most careful preparations and
it was impossible to end the
summer offensive two and three
hundred miles from the base.

When I was in Praga a few
weeks ago, lieutenant General
Korezyz of the First Polish
Army (organized in the USSR)
gave me the first complete ac-
count of relations with the ill-
fated Warsaw uprising which
began August 1 under orders
of General Bor, military repre-
sentative in Poland from’ the
London - Polish government.
This is what he told me: ~

“When the uprising broke
out we were 45 miles south of
Warsaw; while the Red Army
was also ten miles to the east
separated by the heaviest ene-
my fortifications and also by
the Vistula. The isurgents
made no attempt to inform us.
We didnt even kmow where
they were.

“Only on September 12 two
women messengers finally
reached wus coming through
sewers and across rivers. These
were not from  Bor’s army,
which from first to last never
tried fo contact us. The women
messengers were from the Peo-
ple’s Army from the northern
part of the Warsaw region,
ealled Zoliboz, which also join-
ed in the uprising. The largest
area held by the insurgents was
in central Warsaw, contacting
Zoliborz only by sewers.
for the first time we had exact
specifications as to where to
drop arms.

“The following night more
than two hundred Red Army
planes dropped munitions and
arms. to the insurgents. This
continued thereafter nightly

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froni fear and want.”

,extirpate
‘found; and announced plans and

So.

from dark until dawn for more
than two weeks until capitula-
tion. They were dropped both
on Zoliborz and in central War-
Saw, as soon as we knew where
the insurgents were.

“Also we immediately drop-
ped a radio man, with full
equipment in Zoliborz with or-
ders to contact all insurgent
forces in Warsaw and commu-
nieate their needs. They sent

requests and we fulfilled them.

They said to send artillery to
such and such a spot and we

HE agreement reached at Yalta is

good, send
But

They said,

sent ‘it.
more and we sent more.
all this time they neyer gave

us any information. We never
knew whether Bor himself was
in Warsaw until the Germans
announced he was their EIS
oner.

. [To my question as to whether
any attempts were made to
force the Vistula, Korezyz re-
plied in the affirmative.

“The Wirst Polish Army sent
several expeditions across the
Vistula at heavy cost. From

jprisine

“applied idealism’ of a high order.
inflexible resolve of the United Nations to deteat the common enemy.

the military standpoint this
was foolish, the conditions were
ineredibly bad, but we couldn’t
leave the Poles fighting the
Germans alone. All these
erossings ended disastrously be-
eause General Bor’s officers
avoided -eontact with us. For
instance, in the Cherniakow dis-
trict, south of the Poniatowski
Bridge,
nected with a 150 men under
Colonel 'Radoslaw from the
Home Army. They were hung-

_ry, without ammunition, and we

It reaffirms the
It insists that

physical victory is not enough. We must go on and win the moral victory that will result

in a secure and lasting peace which will

live out their lives in freedom
The At-
lantie Charter is referred to
specifically three times in the
official statement of the Crimea
Conference. It appears that the
fundamental principles of the
Atlantic Charter are to be re-
garded as a guide to the United
Nations in the San Francisco
conference.

The Crimea Conference re-

-newed the pledge that all peo-

ples .shall have the right to

. choose the form of government

under which they will live, an-
nounced for the relief and re-
habilitation of liberated peo-
ples; reaffirmed the rejection of
faseism by peace-loving na-
tions; restated the resolve to
fascism wherever

the date for the eagerly awaited
conference of the United Na-
tions in which the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals are to be consid-
ered and improved and a gener-
al international organization of
the peace-loving nations estab-

_ lished.

NDERLYING these signifi-

cant announcements are two
fundamental facts; first, the
full participation of the United
States of America in attempts
to solve the extraordinary dif-
ficult problems of Europe; sec-
ond, the apparent ab'aandonment
of policies wherein individual
nations sought to reach solu-
tions in their own interest, with
the consequent acceptance of a

policy in which joint action by.

at*least the Big Three would be
taken. Churchmen recognize
the fact that Russia has had to
be prepared with alternate poli-
cies, one based upon the as-
sumption that the United States
would not collaborate in the
postwar world, the other based
upon the assumption that the
United States would.

The first emphasized agree-
ments designed to assure se-
curity for Russia in the postwar
world. The other meant the an-
nouncement of ‘the willingness
to collaborate and to reach joint
decision.

It appeared for a time that
both England and Russia were
moving forward upon the basis
of individual decision. It ap-
peared further that the aloof-
ness of the United States might
mean a repetition of the Amer-
ican action that followed the
last World War.

Tt is with a great-sense of re-
lief that churchmen now know
that the clear intent of our gov-
ernment is to collaborate and
the equally clear intent of the
other members of the Big Three
is to move on the basis of joint
action. It now becomes neces-
sary that our leaders have the
full support of the American
people to the end that we may
progress toward the goal of
world law and order.

@

HE religious forces of the

world will regard the de-
cisions of the Crimean Confer-
ence as marking substantial and
significant advance toward
world law and order. I believe
they will support our statesmen
in these proposals. I believe
they will support the plans for

a general international organi-~

zation that will no doubt emerge
from the forthcoming confer;
ence of the United Nations.
Religious leaders everywhere
realize that the ethical ideals of
religion must now be translated
into the realities of world law
and-order, economic justice and
racial brotherhood. It is a sig-
nificant and perhaps symbolic,
fact that the Crimean Confer-
ence held in the former sum-
mer palace of a, Tsar should
seek to build a world in which
the common man shall come to
his rightful place. It is equally

Significant that the conference

to be held in San Francisco will
meet in a city named for St.
Francis of Assissi, who’ reveal-
ed in his person, the principle
that must guide us, not only as
individuals but as nations,
namely, “He who would become
the greatest among you must
become the servant of all.”

Of course there will be fun-
damental differences of opin-
ion concerning the solution
reached in the- matter of Po-
land. There is no solution to
the Polish question fully sat-
isfactory to all sides. Those
who object to the present pro-
posal concerning Poland -are
obligated to present a better
solution rather than to reject
the plans for an ordered
world because the solution
proposed for Poland does not
suit them.

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| BELIEVE religious leaders”

are rejoicing in the fact that
the leadership of the great, na-

tions has been sufficiently. far-

“afford assurance that all men in all lands may

power and the further extension
of justice. They have been
visioned to take all presently
practical steps necessary to de-

feat the common enemy, but,
more, to establish the organiza=
tion. essential to the control of

Fun

we ‘landed and con- —

gave them food-and suppli
couple of nights later,
out telling us, Radoslaw
drew his men into the {
of the city by the sewer

This was unimportant
tarily, but showed their
tude.

- “What waste of life
was in Warsaw and the 2
continued. Pistols - ag’
tanks. Young boys eae s
lives and, were only. w
when they might ove
beating Germans “with we

.S A Churchman Sees It

By BISHOP G BROMLEY

equally farfseeing in ren
their pledge to principles,
principle that summons 7
further advance.

The Atlantic Charter do
represent the last step im
national relations, but it -
first step. Its ideals mi
held aloft beckoning m
further advance. Crimea
deed “applied idealisin, id
ing the support of idealis.
realists alike,

sloodbanks

By B. BRODOVSKY.

E visited a children’s home
located in Bolduri, a sub-
urb on the Riga seashore. Liy-
ing in the home at the present
time are boys and girls who
were rescued from Salaspils, a
German death factory near Ri-
ga. Although there are. more
than 490 children in the home,
a death-like silence reigns in
the rooms, for the children are
still- under the terrifying im-
pressions of their recent or-
deals. “Where are-you from,
sonny?” I asked-an eight-year
-old lad with eyes that showed
no sign of life. “Latvia, or Hst-
onia ?”

With eyes void of expression

the lad gave me a wan smile,

sighed, and whispered: ““From
Ukraine, the Kharkov region.”

The boy’s experiences. are
heartrendine and ineredible,
but no less so than the experi-

ences of the other children in -

the home. His name is Alexei
Kondratenko and he was living
with his parents, his four bro-
thers and sister in the Ulawain-
jan village when the Germans
occupied it. Alexei’s father, who
had been active in public af-
fairs of the district, was shot,
his mother and fifteen year old
brother,

children had been loaded imto
a box car and sent to Salaspils
along with many other chil-
-dren. i /

In Salaspils there were spec-
jal barracks for children with
cots in four tiers. However,
there were so many children
that some of them had to sleep
on the floor. Living in the same
barracks were Alexei, Lenya,

Valya and Kilya Kondratenko, ae

Kilya, the youngest, was only
a year and eight months.
“He kept crying all the time

because he was hungry,” Alexey

Mitya had been ship-—
ped to Germany. The younger ~

| instruments, were

' parations the childrer

told me. “We used to fe
on cabbage leaves. Then
ill and died..So did V;
suppose they took so
blood from her.”

The Germans had 4
for organizing childrey
racks in Salaspils. They
a taetory for the extrac”
blood and the -childre:
good raw material. Th
administration had an —
ment with the Germa —
Cross to supply then
blood, and they did, +}
bucketful, which was
ampuloe-to the hospital
day. This was an estab] i
of which the fascist v :
might well be proud; ih
dred litres of children’ |
a day. -

We talked to young |
from Leningrad, Viteb: :
tava and Amsterdam. })
saw two little girls fro ~
From these children we
of the inhuman practice;
factory.

Every morning the
visited the children’s b
-It is difficult to belie
this beast had once si
a university, had take
ture course and read boi .
stext
the table that stood in”
dle of the barracks.

At the sight of thr |

to ery wildly, many —
becoming hysterical. B
ing made the slightest —
sion.on the fiends in W
“cording to regulation”
child was subjected 7
Jetting once a week.

‘Debilitated and star
dren rarely withstoc
than five to six opera:
that the death rate in
racks was ten to fifte