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Vhy should I? I have always believed anything is posale in America’

’But I fear, Baron, the veryto influence are the sas to take place They will never do anything positive to free our people’

’I do not understand what you mean, Professor,’ said Abel Vhy will they not help us?’

The professor leaned his back in his chair ’You are surely aware, Baron, that the Aiven specific orders to slon their advance east to allow the Russians to take as much of central Europe as they could lay their hands on Patton could have been in Berlin long before the Russians but Eisenhower told hiton - the sauns and troops back into Europe - who gave those orders to Eisenhower!

’But they couldn’t have known then what the USSR would eventually become The Russians were then our allies I accept that ere too weak and conciliatory with them in 1945, but it was not the Americans who directly betrayed the Polish people’

More Szyain and closed his eyes wearily

’I wish you could have known my brother, Baron Rosnoviki I had word only last week that he died six o, in a Soviet camp not unlike the one from which you escaped’

Abel moved forward as if to offer sympathy, but Szymanowski raised his hand

’No, don’t say anything You have known the camps yourself You would be the first to realise that sye the world, Baron, while others sleep’ Szymanowski paused ’My brother was sent to Russia by the Americans’

Abel looked at him in astonishment ’By the Americans? How is that possible? If your brother was captured in Poland by Russian troops’

’My brother was never taken prisoner in Poland He was liberated from a German war camp near Frankfurt The Americans kept him in a DP camp for a month and d= they handed him over to the Russians’