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Previously, the London Poles had disclosed that Bor was Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski, a regular-army cavalry officer. Blue-eyed, dapper, cleanshaven, lean and tall, he was born 46 years ago near Lvov, fought the Germans in the last war, was slightly wounded in Warsaw, later became an officer and attended the Ecole de Guerre in Paris. He was commanding a cavalry brigade in 1939 when Poland fell. In the summer of 1943 General Wladislaw Sikorsky appointed him chief of the Polish underground, less than 24 hours before Sikorsky was killed in an airplane crash. The Germans were said...
Last week they canceled this price, accepted Komorowski and all his surviving partisans as prisoners of war in good standing. Obviously the Nazis hoped to profit by the political reverberations and implications of the Warsaw tragedy (see FOREIGN NEWS). The military fact was ugly enough: thousands of Poles had fought bravely and died heroically in Warsaw without advancing the Allied cause by a single mile or a single hour...
...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...