1954 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 12929 · IOWA NEW JERSEY VIRGINIA l'fendell T. Smith, Mount Pleasant. Paul R. Cronce, Frenchtown. William L. Pickhardt, Chester. Charles R. Mayo, Pocahontas. Theodore Lee Adams', Ocean City. Beulah W. Davis, Concord. Loretta M. Steffens, Rowan. Bruno P. Zorn, Waldwick. Marion L. Beeton, Lexington. Donald R. deGooyer, Sioux Center. Richard F. Weaver, New Market. OHIO Ralph T. Phillips, Parksley. MAINE John L. Bricker, Mount Sterling. William C. Lint, Mapleton. WISCONSIN OREGON MASSACHUSETTS Clifford J. McKenzie, Centuria. Myrl A. Haygood, Philomath. Virginia F. Waupochick, Keshena. Joseph A. Boudreau, Jr., Fiskdale. Daniel w. Macy, Warm Springs. Amy J. Pofahl, Pleasant Prairie. MICHIGAN Estelle W. Hill, Sarona. PENNSYLVANIA Clarence L. Carlson, Whitehall. Herbert N. Hoskins, Shell Lake. Lydia S. Love, Cheyney. Wallace L. Nelson, Siren. MINNESOTA John W. Beach, Fairfield. WYOMING Lesile E. Torrison, Buffalo. John W. Reznor, Greenville. Evalee V. Arnwine, Linch. Harold F. Otto, LeRoy. Leonard Wayne Elder, Rochester Mills. Esther S. Neeld, Wrightstown. MISSISSIPPI Delmer E. Edwards, West Point. SOUTH CAROLINA WITHDRAWAL NEBRASKA Raphael L. Morris, Clemson. Executive nomination withdrawn from Reynold F. Nelson, Gordon. SOUTH DAKOTA the Senate July 31 (legislative day of Russell M. Abrams, Stapleton. July 2), 1954: Casimir F. Kot, Stephan. NEW HAMPSHmE. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Carl Chase Blanchard, Farmington. VERMONT Charles H. Grossman, of New Mexico, Di­ Frederick James Rowe, Portsmouth. Morris W. Depew, Dorset. rector of Locomotive Inspection. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Tenth Anniversary of the Battle of Immediately, th~ Communist Russian people their own puppet Lublin Communist radio went silent, the Communist armies controlled government. Warsaw ceased their attacks and their shelling of the The battle was being waged above ground Nazi forces, and halted all air activity. They and even in the sewers of the city. On simply sat down and waited for the Nazis to September 4, the brave women of Warsaw EXTENSION OF REMARKS slaughter the brave Polish underground broadcast a message to the Vatican. I want OF army. The Nazis were not slow to act. to repeat a part of it here: They moved in the Herman Goering Division, "For 3 weeks, while defending our fortress, HON. PAUL H. DOUGLAS two S. S. tank divisions, pulled up artillery, we have lacked food and medicine. Warsaw is in ruins. The Germans are killing the OF ILLINOIS cut the city into pockets, and started a me­ thodical slaughter of the Polish people. wounded in hospitals. • • • The Rusisan IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES The Russian Communist armies and air armies which have been for 3 weeks at the gates of Warsaw have not advanced a. Saturday, July 31, 1954 forces made no move to relieve the Polish step. • • • God alone is with us." underground army of General Bor. Men, Churchill said of the Communists: Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President, I ask women, children fought bitterly, street by "They wished to have the non-Communist unanimous consent to have printed in street and house by house; buried the dead Poles destroyed to the full, but also to keep the CoNGRESSIONAL REcoRD a statement insomuch as possible; cooked and delivered alive the idea they were going to their I have prepared on the lOth anniversary meals to the men at the rifles; tended the rescue." of the Battle of Warsaw. This state­ wounded who piled up in cellars and houses. One of the last broadcasts before the War­ ment commemorates one of the bravest Virtually the only weapons the Poles hac:t saw radio was silenced and the slaughter uprisings in the history of man, and also w:th which to fight the Nazi tanks, artillery, completed tells the entire story: and Luftwaffe were rifles, revolvers, and "This is the stark truth. We were treated condemns one of the foulest betrayals in bottles filled with gasoline. the history of man. worse than Hitler's satellites, worse than Meanwhile, the Warsaw radio made re­ Italy, Rumania, Finland. May God, who is There being no objection, the state­ peated appeals for help. The Communist just, pass judgment on the terrible injustice ment was ordered to be printed in the armies did not budge. suffered by the Polish nation, and may He RECORD, as follows: In Churchill's Triumph and Tragedy a punish accordingly all those who are guilty." special chapter-The Martyrdom of War­ STATEMENT BY SENATOR DOUGLAS After more than 2 months of the bitterest saw-is devoted to this betrayal. Repeatedly fighting, the resistance was crushed-with­ Tomorrow, August 1, is the lOth anni­ Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt ap­ versary of the Battle of Warsaw. It is the out a single act of the Russians to help the pealed to Marshal Stalin to set his armies in brave underground army. anniversary of one of the bravest, most he­ motion to relieve the city. He refused. Then roic uprisings in the history of man. It is Of the 40,000 men and women of the un­ they sought permission for the British­ derground army, 15,000 were killed. Nearly also the anniversary of one of the foulest American Air Forces to make air drops of betrayals in all of man's long history. 200,000 persons were wounded. Ten thou­ ammunition, food, medicine, and guns to sand Nazis were killed, 7,000 were missing, The Communists are adept in betrayal; it the underground forces. In order to accom­ is their stock in trade. and 9,000 wounded. A mortal blow had been plish this, because of the distances involved, struck at the Germans, weakening them in The Warsaw uprising was instigated by it was necessary to obtain Stalin's permis the Russian Communist high command. 7 the front of the Russian armies, but at a sion to fly on and land for refueling of the terrible cost. On July 31, 1944, the Russian armies were planes behind the Soviet lines. within a few miles of the tortured city, and I want to quote the final lines of This, Marshal Stalin bluntly refused, not Churchill's recital. the shelling of the Germans could easily be once but many times. In Churchill's vol­ heard. On that evening, the Russians con­ "When the Russians entered the city 3 ume, one may read the series of urgent ap­ months later, they found little but shattered tinued their radio appeals for an uprising peals to the Communist Marshal Stalin. within the city, and announced a general streets and the unburied dead. Such was Not once did the Communists lift so much their liberation of Poland, where they now attack from their positions a few miles to the as a single rifle to support the uprising they east. rule. But this cannot be the end of the had instigated. It soon became apparent story." At once, the Polish underground went into that they were guilty of the most degrad­ action. As the brave General Bor described In remembering this lOth anniversary of ing perfidy; they were waiting for the Nazis the Battle of Warsaw, let us forget neither it, "in 15 minutes an entire city of a million to slaughter off the real resistance and pa­ the Communist treachery against their own inhabitants was engulfed in the fight. • • • triotic leaders of the Polish peoples. Then, The battle for the city was on." any, nor Churchill's·final statement: With the heart of Polish patriotism crushed, "This cannot be the end of the story." The carnage was indescribable. they would be free to impress on the Polish We must see to it that it will not be. .