POLISH THEATRE: Divide and Rule

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Several times last week the Warsaw radio went dead, but Mayor Stefan Starzynski kept coming back on the air to ask the Allies: "When will Britain and France give such aid to Poland as will save us from the fury of German barbarism, from new deaths, from destruction of the remaining buildings of our city? We are still waiting. . . ."

*French Information (Propaganda) Chief Jean Giraudoux claimed last week that Germany has suffered 150,000 casualties in Poland, including between 600 and 700 airmen, that between 400 and 600 German planes have been shot down.

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