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...Polish underground leaders was invited to Moscow to discuss Russian-occupied Poland's private problems. Carrying with it a Russian general's "word of honor" that its "personal safety is assured," the group headed for Russia. One of the group's leaders was General Leopold Okulicki, who succeeded General Bor as leader of the home underground army that fought the Nazis and then, in a vain bid to stop the transfer of Poland from Nazi to Red rule, harassed the on-moving Red army. Soon after crossing the border, the 16 were flicked from view...
...weeks later, Premier Stalin wrote Prime Minister Churchill and President Truman that "the group of Poles . . . was arrested by the military authorities on the Soviet front and is undergoing investigation in Moscow . . . General Okulicki's group, and especially the general himself, are accused of planning and carrying out diversionary tactics in the rear of the Red army which resulted in the loss of over 100 fighters and officers of that army...
Three of the 16 have since come back from the prisons to which they were sentenced for terms ranging up to ten years. Last week, ten years after his arrest, there came the first news of a fourth. The Soviet Red Cross officially notified Mme. Okulicki in London that her husband had died "of natural causes" in a Moscow jail. Date of death: Christmas...
...Yalta agreement was not mentioned; this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader of the ill-fated Warsaw August uprising, as commander in chief of the London Government's underground army. Some of the 16 hardly deserved the title of "democratic leaders," but they had what amounted to a Russian pledge of safe conduct...
...times Premier of Poland and most distinguished of all the underground figures. Last week the Russians, elaborating Molotov's account, denied that Witos was under arrest. Apparently he was in Moscow, doing what he could to arrange an honorable agreement. The Russians concentrated their propaganda fire on General Okulicki, probably intending to use his record against the rest...
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