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Everybody Fights. General Sir Harold Alexander, the Allied commander in Italy, had every reason to be proud of his polyglot armies. The doughty Poles took Monte Cairo, a rock mass more than a mile high, and Piedimonte; Amaseno and Castro dei Volsci fell to the French and their black colonials...
This time the Allies relied not only upon their artillery and their bombing and desperate infantry charges. Reverting to the ancient military doctrine that what cannot be taken by frontal assault can be encircled, General Sir Harold Alexander sent powerful units of his Polish troops around to the right of...
The Abbey. The Poles waded through heavy going until they finally reached the top of Monastery Hill, west of town. After they entered the broken abbey, which had been crushed beneath the weight of thousands of tons of high explosives, the grim Poles ran up their red and white flag...
Were the stubborn Poles bowing at last to stubborn Russia? In London, the Polish National Council hotly debated the position of Russophobe General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Commander in Chief of the Polish armies and designated successor to exiled President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz. An ultranationalist of the old Pilsudski military clique, General Sosnkowski...
The Soviet Government took some canny, specific measures. Smartest move yet: Moscow's announcement that Polish children in Soviet territory may have Roman Catholic religious instruction if their parents so desire. That news, if believed in Poland, was calculated to appeal to millions of devoutly Catholic Poles.