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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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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

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“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.

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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,

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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