Word: katyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tent. The correspondents and Kathy saw thousands of corpses; the authorities said that Katyn Forest contained some 12,000. Then the party went into one of four large grey-green army tents, clumping the snow and muck off their boots as they entered. It was warmer inside and the stench was overpowering. Dr. Prozorovsky ripped open a corpse numbered 808, sliced chunks off the brain like cold meat, knifed through the chest and pulled out an atrophied organ. "Heart," he said, holding it out to Kathy. Then he slit a leg muscle. "Look how well preserved the meat...
...Poles have rejected the Curzon Line; 2) the Poles forget that they have no diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R., hence cannot negotiate; 3) the lack of relations is the fault of the Poles who joined the Germans in an anti-Soviet slander about the murder of Polish officers in Katyn Forest (TIME, April 26); 4) the present Polish Government clearly does not want to establish good relations with Russia. In effect, said Moscow to the U.S. and Great Britain: stay...
...culmination of errors which brought last week's "suspension" of relations between the Russians and the Poles. The Poles had capped their old enmity toward Russia by supporting the Nazi propaganda story that 10,000 missing Polish officers had been found in mass graves in the forest of Katyn. Herr Goebbels said the Russians slaughtered them. Long distrust of Russia had conditioned the Poles to believe the German account. Without notifying either Britain or Russia, they fed the flames of anti-Soviet suspicion by demanding an International Red Cross investigation. The Red Cross (in Geneva) refused; the chastened Poles...