Aspects of American and British Policy towards Poland from the Yalta to the Potsdam Conferences, 1945
Journal: The SHAFR Guide Online
Year: 2017

On July 4, 1943 a Polish airman sobbed quietly on a Gibraltar run way and kept repeating is the end of Poland. This is the end of Poland.1 He had indeed just witnessed a tragedy for the Polish nation ?the death in an air crash of General Sikorski, the Polish prime min ister of their government in exile. General Wladyslaw Sikorski was the one man who might have saved Poland in the end, for it was Sikorski who had established the most promising relationship with Stalin.2 His death was a tragedy an