Word: bor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland's Lieut. General Tadeusz Kombrowski ("General Bor"), leader of last August's abortive Warsaw uprising...
...light of victory-or perhaps more like his pre-1941 self. After dealing Hitler one of his two heaviest defeats of the year, Stalin's central armies had stopped on the Vistula, while those on the flanks pursued secondary aims. Then followed the ill-timed martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical destruction of the London Polish Government. At Dumbarton Oaks, Russia's diplomats insisted that, in the framework of postwar security, no great power (e.g., Russia) should be disciplined without its consent...
...that Premier Mikolajczyk's return to Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...
...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...
Then Russia, stung in part probably by foreign criticism, in part probably mindful of the effect on those parts of Poland controlled by the Lublin government, began to send aid to Warsaw. But when General Bor was made commander in chief of all the Polish Government's forces, the Lublin government denounced him as a "criminal." threatened to arrest and try him if he fell into their hands. Promptly, when General Bor surrendered to the Germans, the Lublin Poles cried: "Traitor...