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More as a formality than from any hope of help, the Polish Government in London for the second time in a month appealed to Britain and the U.S. The Polish Home Army (which is loyal to the London Poles) had fought the Germans through five years of underground and guerrilla resistance. It had aided the Red Army. It had suffered grave losses in last fall's Warsaw uprising. Now what the Germans had left of the Home Army was being systematically "liquidated" by the Russians and their puppet Warsaw Government.

The London Poles charged that: P:Polish Communists, cooperating with the N.K.V.D. (Russian secret police), had organized special courts to purge "enemies of the people"--i.e., all political opponents of the Warsaw Government. P: The purge included the disarming and jailing of Home Army units, the execution of many of its officers, the deportation to Russia of at least 2,500 Polish underground fighters.

P:The purge also involved Poles east of the Curzon line. There, in territories annexed by the Russians, all Poles were being uprooted. Those who were loyal to Warsaw were sent to Poland. Those who were loyal to London were sent to Russia.

Having made this gesture of appeal, the London Poles next day made the last despairing gesture which might help their countrymen--President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz officially ordered the Home Army disbanded.

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