Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (131 page)

See R. Steel,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
(London, 1980).
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28
.
Arthur Bliss Lane, though confirmed in September 1944, delayed his journey to Europe to July 1945, when he made straight for Soviet-run Warsaw. See his
I Saw Poland Betrayed
(Minneapolis, 1948).
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29
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SPP, 6. 3–3, 1 July 1944.
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30
.
Philip Bell,
John Bull and the Bear: British public opinion, foreign policy and the Soviet Union, 1941–45
(London, 1990).
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31
.
2 August 1944, in Carlton, op. cit., pp. 239–41.
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32
.
William Mackenzie,
The Secret History of SOE
(London, 2000), Part I ‘Origins’, pp. 3–71.
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33
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Tadeusz Romer (1894–1978); Stanisław Kopa
ski (1895–1976), see his
W spomnienie Wojenne, 1939–45
(London, 1972).
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34
.
Alan J. Foster, in
New Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford, 2000), pp. 154ff; see also Peter Wilkinson,
Gubbins and SOE
(London, 1993) and
Foreign Fields
(London, 1997); O. O’Malley,
The Phantom Caravan
(London, 1954).
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35
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General Stanisław Tatar, ‘Tabor’, see Zbigniew S. Siemaszko,
Działalno
Generała Tatar
(London, 1999).
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36
.
J. Pomian,
J. H. Retinger: Memoirs of an Eminence Grise
(Sussex, 1972).
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37
.
Stephen Dorrill,
MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations
(London, 2000).
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38
.
Zbigniew S. Siemaszko, ‘Retinger w Polsce w 44 roku’,
ZH
,
XII
, 1967, pp. 56–115.
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39
.
Dixon, 15 February, quoted by V. Rothwell, op. cit.
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40
.
W. F. Reddaway (ed.),
The Cambridge History of Poland
(Cambridge, 1941, 1950), 2 vols; W. R. Morfill,
Poland
(Oxford, 1893): see also Roman Dyboski,
Poland
(London, 1933).
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41
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W. J. Rose,
Poland
(Harmondsworth, 1939), p. 243.
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42
.
Polish Ministry of Information,
The Black Book of Poland
(London, 1942).
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43
.
Republic of Poland,
The German Occupation of Poland
(London, 1942).
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44
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E.g.
Victor Cazalet,
With Sikorski to Russia
(London, 1942), and others.
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45
.
Apart from official Government publications, a Polish Information Committee was very active in New York. Titles included
Poland Fights
(1941–46),
Polish Facts and Figures
(1944–45), and
Poland of Tomorrow
.
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46
.
R. Addinsell,
The Warsaw Concerto
: Dangerous Moonlight (1941). Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Released in the USA in 1945 with the unfortunate title of
Suicide Squad
.
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47
.
E. Raczy
ski,
W Sojuszniczym Londynie
(London, 1997), p. 433.
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48
.
Ibid., p. 432.
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49
.
Poland’s Eastern Frontier
, The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY FO 404/30, C1482/1551/55 (19 November 1943) and
Possible Lines of a Polish–Soviet Settlement
(22 November 1943), in A. Polonsky,
The Great Powers and the Polish Question, 1941–45
(London, 1976), p. 160.
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50
.
Jan M. Ciechanowski,
The Warsaw Rising of 1944
(Cambridge, 1974), p. 48.
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51
.
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War
(London, 1948), vol. 1.
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52
.
Tele gram: Demel to Iranek-Osmecki, text in Zbigniew S. Siemaszko,
Ł
czno
i Polityka
(London, 1992), p. 96.
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53
.
Siemaszko,
Tatar
, op. cit., p. 39.
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54
.
Ibid., pp. 23–4, 43–4.
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55
.
HIA Poland, MSZ File, June 1944. Ambassador J. Ciechanowski (Washington)–Foreign Minister Romer. 11 June 1944. No. 3/SZ – tjn/29c.
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56
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Siemaszko,
Tatar
, op. cit., pp. 46–7. This conversation has been reconstructed from an account written by Tabor in 1981, shortly before his death. It may be compared with: L. Mitkiewicz,
W najwy
szym sztabie zachodnich Aliantów, 1943–5
(London, 1971), p. 177.
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57
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Note by RSM Stefan Zamoyski, 13 June 1944, SPP 2–3-2–1-4.
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58
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S. Mikołajczyk,
The Rape of Poland
(New York, 1948), p. 60.
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59
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Jan Ciechanowski,
Defeat in Victory
(New York, 1947), passim.
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60
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Such was the considered opinion of a British insider. ‘Gen. Tabor . . . saw both the British Chiefs of Staff and the Combined Chiefs of Staff, and all possible efforts were made . . . to secure . . . Allied assistance for a general rising. The efforts were not successful: no promises were given, indeed the difficulties were made very plain . . . But no attempt was made to control or to prohibit a general rising: this was explicitly left to the Poles to decide.’ Mackenzie, op. cit., pp. 521–2.
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Notatka z uroczysto
ci dekorowania gen. S. Tabora orderem Ła
ni