REPORT OF DEATHS EXAGGERATED
REPORT OF DEATHS EXAGGERATED IN the negotiations for s new bituminous coal agreement John L. Lewis is making a play for new safety devices in the mines. His argument is bolstered with figures....
...The plana circled around the airport until the gasoline was nearly exhausted...
...Nothing now ? Because you've done nothing yesterday...
...As soon aa they appeared the democrat!* Palish leaders were imprisoned...
...Finally the Red Army captain took over the controls and made a skillful crash landing in a field covered with snow", to save his own life...
...To this Harry M. Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Compsny, delivered a withering reply...
...You condone these conditions by your silence...
...They "confessed" to only one "crime"—that of being politically opposed to totalitarian Communism' and the puppet regime in Warsaw...
...Their "guilt" had been decided in advance, of course...
...When the plane reached the Moscow airport the pilot told the captain . that the eirport authorities refused them permission to land...
...The British and American Governments had urged these Poles to come out of hiding and negotiate with the Russians for the formation of a Polish Government of National Unity in accordance with the Yalta formula...
...details, hitherto unpublished, have come to light regarding the arrest and trial af the 10 Polish Underground leaders lured out of hiding by the Russians .under a guarantee of safety to negotiate with the Communists en the broadening af ths Polish Government installed in Warsaw hy ths Bad Army, The rsmfjiiamas warn to begin March 10, 194...
...During the "investigation" he had answered every question with "No...
...At the trial the 16 Poles maintained their dignity and integrity, refusing ' to follow the example of ths old Bolsheviks In the 1986-1987 purges, who accused themselves of ridiculous crimes they could not hsve committed...
...It was rumored in the courtroom that he had committed suicide...
...If the Moses figures are correct, they mean that "every day three men die" and more than ISO are wounded in order that we may have coal...
...Their daily fare waa one pound of bread, a bowl of soap, and a cup of toffee...
...Anthony Eden hotly protested when Molotov calmly announced at the San Francisco UNO conference that the 16 were under arrest...
...But one of them, A. Pajdak, leader of the Polish Socialist Party, did not appear in court and his fate remains a mystery...
...Caesar, we who are about to die salute you...
...Then he added pointedly, "And we protest...
...They were told by the Russisns that "Yen moat renounce the Polish Govemment-in-exile if a Government af Nstionsl Unity is to be formed...
...Then he paused, and for a long apace nothing could he heard in the gilded hotel roam eat tha heavy breathing af the men under attack...
...For seven weeks the IS Poles Were grilled almost constantly, in an effort to bresk down their resistance and force them to confess that, under instructions ' from the Poles in London, they had committed acts of terror and sabotage against the Red Army...
...During the psst 14 years, Lewis stated, 28,000 miners have been killed and 1,004,000 have been injured...
...part...
...The Poles realised that the Moscow suthorities had deliberately planned an "accident," and were quit* willing to sacrifice four Russians in ardor to get rid of the 16 Poles...
...The purpose of the whole plot wss to discredit the Polish Govemment-in-exile...
...A lot of nice people object to John L. Lewis...
...The episode was an international scandal for a while, and then forgotten hy the diplomats...
...Only 14,615 have been done to death," said Moaea, "and the number injured was only 646,591...
...In Moscow they were thrown into separate cells, with strong lights burning into their fsces day and night Whenever they fell asleep a guard would awaken them...
...They refused...
...What-are-you-going-to-do-a bout-It 7" he alowly asked...
...However, Bolsheviks have nothing but scorn for the diplomatic protests of democratic governments, and they went ahead with their conspiracy to destroy their opponents in Poland, of which the jailing of the 16 was...
...They might even, hsve objected to his wsy of dramatizing the troubles of dirt-streaked men who go down into the dark holes to pull out our coal...
...f The 16 were placed ia an airplane, with two Bed Army pilots, a captain, and a historian...
...Now Facts About tha 16 Poles NtW...
...But the Polish people will not forget...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 12
