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Died. Tadeusz Tomaszewski, 68, Polish jurist who in April 1949 succeeded Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski ("General Bor") as "Prime Minister" of the shadowy Polish government in exile*; of a heart attack; in London...
...bubbles-moved to Mrs. Bor-roto's heart. She died quickly. With astonishing frankness, the doctor jotted down his action on a hospital record. He signed her death certificate, and left. Last week, 25 days later, a nurse at the hospital read the record, noted the lethal injection, reported to her superiors. Hospital officials reported to the authorities'. Confronted by the sheriff, Dr. Sander calmly admitted that he had caused Mrs. Borroto's death...
...Nazis, a story full of confusion at the time, but one that in his telling becomes pathetically plain. On July 29, 1944, a Moscow broadcast urged Warsaw to revolt to hasten the entry of Russian troops, then only ten kilometers away. The underground Polish army, led by General Bor, went into action on Aug. 1. The next day it had two-thirds of Warsaw under control. As the Nazis hit back with savage plane attacks, Polish emigré leaders begged the Russians to send planes over Warsaw to drop munitions and food to the rebels. But Russian planes, which...
...asked permission to send planes from England in a shuttle flight to Russia in order to drop aid to Bor's troops. Moscow stalled for a crucial month, finally allowed one flight on Sept. 18. On Oct. 3, the Warsaw insurrection collapsed. The Russians, Lane bitterly concludes, stalled before Warsaw long enough to let the Nazis kill off 250,000 Poles. That made it easier for the Russians to handle the rest...
Although it had nothing to do with the case at trial, Lipinski's prosecutor tried to prove him a Nazi collaborator. Lipinski was arrested by the Gestapo, and later released, because he had advised Polish underground General Bor-Komorowski against the abortive 1944 Warsaw uprising which caused the Germans to destroy the city. Poles were not likely to forget that Moscow had also denounced Bor's uprising, after Radio Moscow called for it, and that the Red Army only a few miles away had not moved to save Bor from the Germans...