Word: sikorska
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There had been little aerial help either. During the first few weeks of the uprising, the Russian Army twelve miles away did nothing to aid the Partisans, who were under the command of the Polish Government in Exile. Instead it disarmed Partisans. When Madame Helena Sikorska (widow of Poland's late great Premier and commander in chief) and 15 leading Poles protested, Prime Minister Winston Churchill fumed. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden lectured Premier Mikolajczyk. But R.A.F. flyers from Italy made a 1,750-mile round trip to drop a pathetic driblet of supplies to the besieged. Polish paratroops, idle...
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