The Pol . sh Patriots
The mission to Moscow of the Polish delegation from London, headed by M. Mikolajczyk, the Prime Minister, has reached the stage of conversations with representatives of the Polish Committee of National Liberation. These negotiations should be facilitated by the news of the appointment of the Socialist leader, M. Arciszewski, as President designate—that is, as the future Polish President. While these political discussions are in progress the Polish Home Army is rendering invaluable help to the Russian and Alked cause by the splendid fight it is putting up against odds in the heart of the city of Warsaw. Some quarters of the city are actually in their hands, and they are fighting desperately from street to street against an organised enemy, relying to a large extent on weapons captured from the Germans. In the distance they can hear the Russian guns, and are wondering when the Russian offensive will bring them relief. These gallant Poles appear to have little doubt that they could hold out if they had arms and ammunition, and they have issued an urgent appeal for immediate assistance with the supply of weapons. When the history of the Polish internal resistance move- ment comes to be told we shall learn how much the Russian advance has been helped by it.
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