Warsaw uprising of 1944.

ITEM: Writing in the Washington Post for June 2, Anne Applebaum supplied correct details about the 1944 betrayal of Poland's "greatest generation" by Stalin's Red Army that enabled the Nazi invaders to slaughter 200,000. She cited the findings of historian Norman Davies who pointed out that "more civilians died every day for those 63 days than died on September 11 [2001 in America]."

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: We turn to 1966 for Robert Welch's essay "The Truth in Time," originally published in the November 1966 issue of American Opinion, the predecessor of THE NEW AMERICAN, and now published as an Appendix in The Blue Book of The John Birch Society.

Mr. Welch provided some history about the joint Soviet-Nazi crushing of Polish resistance: "But in 1944 this new drive, to inflict such terror and hopelessness on the Polish people as to make their submission inevitable, began with the betrayal of General Bor-Komorowski's underground army in Warsaw. General Bor's 250,000 men were lured out into open attacks on the German troops and tanks which still occupied the city, by assurances from a London radio station that the Russian army had arrived at the Vistula River, and was now ready to 'liberate' the Polish capital. These brave and intensely patriotic Poles, who would later have resisted the Communist conquerors of their homeland exactly as they had resisted the Nazis, were killed almost to a man, as just about the last thing the Germans did before themselves retreating westward--while Stalin's army remained stationary on the other side of the river and waited for the massacre to be complete."