WARSAW DRAMA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 241, 8 September 1944, Page 2

WARSAW DRAMA

QUESTION OF SUCCOUR

LONDON, Sept. 6.

The British view of General Sosnowski's Order of the Day accusing the Allies of failing to give adequate assistance to the Polish home forces in Warsaw, says the Manchester Guardian's diplomatic correspondent, is that there lias been the fullest consultation with the Polish Government about the help to Warsaw, and that the Russian refusal to grant American planes a landing-ground in Russian-occupied Poland for a shuttle service for the relief of Warsaw can best be compared to our own determination "not to take our eye off the ball" during the second front, whether for flying bombs or any other menace. The llussian view, he says, is that the insurgents holding portions of Warsaw were too scattered to make relief possible. Mr Vernon Bartlett, M.P., writing in the News Cronicle, says that General Sosnowski's action, followed by an article in the Dziennik Polski, a semiofficial newspaper published in London, which claimed that the Germans recognised the military status of the fighters in Warsaw and that "only the Soviet Union has not recognised those rights," would appear to be inspired less by injured national pride than by a deliberate desire to wreck the negotiations between M. Mikolajczyk and the Polish Committee of National Liberation in Lublin. Mr Bartlett, after saying that whether more could have been, done to help the Poles in Warsaw must remain a matter of opinion, refers to three points which are pu7-zling the Pole?: "(1) That airfields and gun emplacements which the Germans are using against Warsaw and which could have been bombed were net bombed; (2) that arms are so desperately needed by the Poles that the risk that some of them would fall into the hands of the Germans, who have already all the arms they could require, should be taken; (3) that other allien were prepared to send supplies and did indeed suffer far heavier losses in so doing than Sosnowski claims, but have been handicapped by the failure of the Hussions io ag.eo to (his shuttle service."