Władysław Anders.

From The World of the Slavs by Albert Mousset, 1950

[After the fraudulent 'soviet'-sponsored elections.]
Another and no less redoubtable motive of discord between Poland and the Western Allies was the existence in Italy of an army (the former Second Polish Corps), under the orders of General Wladislaw Anders, who had not recognised the Warsaw Government—because, he said, it had not been freely chosen by the Polish people. His troops did not refuse to enter Poland, but they were not prepared to do so until the Russians had gone. On this question, as on that of the elections, a diplomatic duel took place—the initiative, this time, lying with the Warsaw Cabinet. The incident began with a note, of January, 1946, in which this Cabinet accused England of equipping and supplying these forces, and with a protest to Washington against the functioning, in the American zone, of a liaison between the Anders Army and the secret organisations of the interior. General Anders opposed a categorical denial to this assertion ; according to him, it was nothing but a false scent, to divert attention from the political crisis existing in the country.

Yugoslavia* intervened abruptly in this affair, by submitting to the General Secretariat of the United nations, through M. Vyshinsky, a memorandum destined for the Security Council, claiming that the Polish Army in Italy, executing manœvres which brought it near to the Julian March, and recruiting Yugoslavs, was considered as 'aggressive and manifestly dangerous' for the Belgrade Government.

      * That is, the part of the communist racket installed as the 'government' of Yugoslavia. — (WPT)

England, quite justifiably, was surprised to find the Yugoslavs adopting this roundabout method of lodging a complaint directly aimed at her. She immediately denied the allegations.

But thereupon, a communication from the Warsaw Government, February 14, declared that, from that date onwards, it ceased to consider the Polish forces abroad as units of the national army. The Government therefore demanded that such troops should no longer be permitted to wear Polish uniform or badges, and that they should be demobilised. A few days later, Radio-Warsaw broadcast an appeal to Polish soldiers aboard, urging them to arrange for repatriation. And, on March 20. Mr. Bevin,* submitted to the Commons the text of an Anglo-Polish agreement for the demobilisation of these soldiers (at least 200,000 men), half of whom constituted the total strength of the Anders Army stationed in Italy. No judicial actions was to be taken against the returned, soldiers, unless they had served in the German Army, or in the Todt organisation. Those who were unwilling to go would not be forced to return to Poland, but their right to remain in England would be considered individually.

      * Another Red louse, Mr. Bevin, subverting England. Whether this man was actually in the orders of the Kremlin is not known to me. On any account, a deluded or corrupt 'ideologue'.

Whose idea it was that the men who had done the actual fighting (and dying) for the Allies might conceivably be the target of 'judicial actions' I do not know. Perhaps Mr. Bevin's. — (WPT)

It goes without saying that the 'Polish Government n London'* protested against this decision, on which they had not been consulted. On June 1 General Anders bade farewell to his troops. . . . At the end of October he left Italy for England, where he joined the unarmed Resettlement Corps.¹⁶ Shortly before (on September 28) and as the result of this incorporation, a decree of the Council of Polish ministers** had withdrawn his nationality, as well as that of seventy-four other officers, of or above the rank of general.

      ¹⁶ A British M.P. having asked (on February 18, 1947) why the general's salary figured on the army budget, Richard Stokes, a Labour M.P., divulged that the military authorities admitted that, without the collaboration of the Anders Army, the Italian campaign might have ended in disaster.

New York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1950.

      * This had initially been the only legitimate government, in exile, which organised the Polish part of the Allied war effort. Due to the 'soviet' treacheries and the astonishing blindness of Mr. F. D. Roosevelt the Allies, following the Beria/Molotov/Stalin-sponsored murders of a number of Polish officers, had been corrupted with an impossible debacle.
    To-day, one might do well to see through all the lies about these matters that had been then and ever since promulgated.

      ** The then 'Council of Polish ministers' had contained just too many 'soviet'-sent lice for it to be considered as having any legitimacy at all. Howbeit, the realpolitick of dealing with the communist forces, however barbarian, had to prevail.

The racket had been going on for some decades but it seems that it has basically ended. One still has to do with some deluded and/or criminal remnants here and there. — (WPT)

Title The crime of Katyn : facts & documents / with a foreword by Władysław Anders. Publisher London : Polish Cultural Foundation, 1965. Description xvi, 303 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Language English Note Translation of Zbrodnia katyńska w świetle dokument�w. Includes index.

Stahl, Zdzisław, 1901- Title Zbrodnia katyńska w świetle dokument�w. Z przedm. Władysław Andersa. Publisher Londyn, Gryf, 1962. Description xvi, 300 p. illus., ports., maps. Language English [ ? ]

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970. Title Przem�wienie generalnego inspektora P.S.Z. Gen. broni W. Andersa na zjeździe przedstawicieli zarzad�w k�ł oddziałowych : w dniu 14 sierpnia 1954 roku w Londynie. Publisher [Londyn : P.S.Z., 1954] Description 15 p. ; 17 cm.

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970 Title Hitler's defeat in Russia. Foreword by Truman Smith Publisher Chicago, H. Regnery Co., 1953 Description 267 p. illus. 22 cm

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970. Title Klęska Hitlera w Rosji, 1941-1945. Publisher Londyn : Gryf Publications, 1952. Description 137 p. maps (part fold.) 23 cm. Note Errata slip inserted. Bibliographical footnotes. [ Language Polish ]

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970. Title Bez ostatniego rozdzialu; wspomnienia z lat 1939-1946. Publisher Newtown, Wales Montgomeryshire Printing Co. [1950] Description xvi, 447 p. illus., ports., maps. 22 cm. Note "Wydanie pierwsze: styczen, 1949."

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970. Uniform Title [ Bez ostatniego rozdzialu. English] Title An army in exile; the story of the Second Polish Corps. Publisher London, Macmillan, 1949. Description xvi, 319 p. Language English

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970. Title Bez ostatniego rozdziału, wspomniena z lat 1939-1946. Publisher New York, Polish Book Imp. Co., Inc. [1949] Description 447 p. illus. [ Language Poliah ]

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970. Title Armee paguluses; teise poola armeekorpuse arengulugu. Publisher Stokholm : Välis-Eesti, 1949. Description 225 p. Note Tôlkinud fil. lic. Viktor Konsa. [ Language Swedish ]

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970. Uniform Title [ Bez ostatniego rozdziału. French] Title M�moires, 1939-1946 [mille neuf cent trente-neuf-mille neuf cent quarante-six] / Wladyslaw Anders ; traduit du polonais par J. Rzewuska. Publisher Paris : Jeune Parque, c1948. Description 478 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Series Pour servir � l'histoire de ce temps ;7 Language French Note Translation of Bez ostatniego rozdziału. Includes index.