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...calendar already bulging with red-letter days, Germany added a particularly sanguinary one last fortnight. The Reich commemorated the first anniversary of its stewardship in Poland by executing "Stefan the Stubborn" Starzynski, last mayor of Warsaw, outstanding hero of World...
Those who have said that a new war would have no heroes reckoned without such as Stefan ("The Stubborn") Starzynski, Mayor of Warsaw, a truly great fighter, very marrow of the very bone of Warsaw's hopeless 20-day defense. Like a captain who goes down with his ship, like a wild animal which perishes defending its nest, Mayor Starzynski meant what he said when he cried over Warsaw's radio: "We are fighting to death." Last week, as it must even to the greatest men, death came to Stefan the Stubborn. Stubbornly, he died...
...Since the report of Mayor Starzynski's death came from Berlin, he may have died at German hands, and been given the glory (so that Germany would not have the shame). Germans may even have wished him dead, and said he was-without basis...
...nostrils of the dauntless Mayor of Warsaw, "Stefan the Stubborn" Starzynski, as all Poles were calling him, stank last week the corpses of men and horses rotting in almost every street of Europe's fifth largest capital. More than 500 separate fires were blazing in Warsaw, covering the city with a choking lid of smoke and flame. The reservoirs were blasted and dry, the power plants smashed, and Nazi bombers, after destroying the Jewish Home for Crippled Children, had methodically blown to bloody smithereens all Warsaw hospitals, crammed with wounded...