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...This was an amasing achievement in a strongly garrisoned city...

...The German communique of September S, with its clsim that the uprising had been crushed, tacitly admits that it continued for several weeks...

...Indeed Burton, hi tke course ef a wandering and combative Journaltatie career, get himself blacklisted in Japan and has been outspoken in bis criticism of Hitler and Mussolini...

...The second tragedy was tke unforgettable uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1948...

...What is entirely unjustifiable is the systematic moral sabotage of the uprising by Soviet commentators, the refusal of the slightest military cooperstion...

...When We Come to A merle o. Let Me Of" T*HB Soviet Bailors who Jumped their ship in Seattle and are seeking assurances against deportation, unconsciously illustrate the essentlsl truth of a word-of-mouth "anecdote" which was circulating in Moscow many years ago...

...It is a matter of record that the Kosciussko Station in Moscow, operated by Polish Communists and obviously under ths complete control of the Soviet Government, broadcast appeals U the people of Waraaw in the last days of July to revolt and rally around the leadership of the Underground...

...Now a case hss come to my attention that leads me to insert a qualifying footnote...

...In response to a signal from the Polish Government in London, which believed that it was serving the best Interests of the United Nations, the uprising took place and, in its first phase, was amasingly successful...

...The anecdote represents a Soviet citixen as approaching the authorities and saying: "When we come abreast of of America, please let ma off, won't you...

...First waa tke hopeless but heroic defense of Warsaw against the overwhelming German mechanised power in the first weeks of the war...

...The younger Jowa died in the tradition of the Russian revolutionary movement, the older ones no doubt sometimes recalled th* equally heroic and hopeless defense of Jerusalem against the Remans in the first century...

...To keep a man in prison for ideas, however mistaken those ideas may seem to many Americans, is a very bad precedent Persona or organisations interested in seeing that this precedent should not be established in America, should get in touch with Attorney-General Biddle or with Jamas V. Bennett, Director of the Bureau of Prisons, the officials...

...The Vistula line in the East is as important to German plans for a last stand as the Siegfried Lino in the West...

...He was over forty-one years old when he waa ordered to report for Induction, and under regulations which wore introduced at the end of 1942 would not have been liable to military service...

...His position waa that not of a religious, but of a polUcal objector, and be ant forth this position in a long statement addressed to his local draft board...

...No doubt, the strongest efforts were made to hold this line...

...This seems to be a clear case of persecution for opinion, although the Supreme Court recently ruled in the Hartxell case that an American citisen has the right "to discuss those matters either by temperate reasoning or by Immoderate and vicious invective" without violating the law...

...Ha was brought to trial and sentenced to five years' imprisonment In tke Ashland Penitentiary, la Kentucky...

...Again the situation waa hopeless...

...Imprisonment for Opinion I RECENTLY noted in thia column what seemed to be encouraging signs of a stner war mood, of more tolerance for dissenting opinion thsn one found in the last war...

...Burton's communication to his draft board waa a vehement critic Urn of Administration foreign policy...

...There was no outside source from which help could cento...

...At this distance it is difficult to Judge how far the apparent inaction of the Soviet troops on the Warsaw sector during the fateful month of August was justified by purely military considerations...

...In one respect, has been more bitter than the other two, because tkt help which might have been expected did net corns...

...This lias la a recent German communique marks the third epic tragedy •f tke Polish capital—the first Large city to be attacked in tke' war that began flee years ago...

...It waa not pro Nasi or pro-Japanese...

...for some time after Hitler and Stalin had resumed, in a more brutal faahion than their crowned predecessors, Frederick the Great and Catherine II, the policy of partitioning Poland, Warsaw held out and the Polish radio continued to play Chopin's polonaises as a symbol of unconquerable defiance...

...It was one of the pompous Communist slogsns of tke time "to overtake and outstrip America...

...At the end of July the Soviet armies ware in tke outlying suburbs of Warsaw...

...It proves beyond any reasonable doubt the strength and vitality of the Poliah Underground that looks to London, not to Moscow, for orientation and leadership...

...Public building and bridges over the Vistula were seised...

...It also cannot forget the painful and ominous contrast between the Soviet sabotage of thia revolt and the prompt and generous cooperation of the Anglo-American forces with the insurgent movement of the people of Paris...

...The characterisation of the uprising ss premature seems cynical snd unconvincing when one remembers the appeals of the Kosciiisxko' Station and the repeated Soviet urging of revolt, st sny price, in countries which were much farther away from the Soviet armies thsn the city of Warsaw...

...But the Soviet military aid, which seemed so dose, never materialised...

...Poland will not forget the heroes of Warsaw's third epic battle for freedom against overwhelming odds...

...Now there haa been a third tragedy of Warsaw...

...Ths fsw arms which the Jews bed accumulated or which could be smuggled to them from the Polish Underground were not adequate, But amid the grisly horror of ths systematic extermination of the Jewish people by tke Nasi killers, the ¦prising in the Ghetto remains n shining light of heroic fighting against hopeless odds...

...Wilbur Burton, a freelance writer and Journalist, refused to be ti.ducted into the Army in October, 1942...

...And this...

...Burton's application was to be paroled for farm work in his home district in Indiana...

...directly responsible for rejecting Burton's application for parole...

...His request has been refused...

...Ha wss tried, it should bo noted, not for the sentiments expressed in the communication to the draft board, but for hia refusal to accept induction...

...It was supported by requests not only from his neighbors, but also by Selective Service, which recommended that ha bo paroled...

...Burton baesme eligible for regular parole in September of this year and also applied for special parole under Executive Order 8641, providing that Selective Service Act viols tors may bo paroled for work of national importance...

...The British independent liberal commentator, Vernon Bartlett, has said that the use of Russian bases for shuttle-bombing was refused to British and American airplanes...