today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 London, May 7, 1999 Sikorski statue for London GEN. WLADYSLAW SIKORSKI, Poland’s wartime leader described by Churchill as his “comrade in life and death”, is to be commemorated by a statue in London.
It is hoped that it will go in Portland Place facing the Polish embassy following the launch of a fund-raising appeal at the Polish embassy last night. A dinner and auction was expected to raise £20,000. The statue of the general, dressed in his uniform, is by Faith Winter and will cost £140,000.
The Polish commander-in-chief and prime minister, who was appointed in Paris after the defeat of Poland, organised the evacuation to Britain of the remains of the Polish government and armed forceswhen France also fell. Comment DAVID Irving published a book called Accident (William Kimber Ltd., London 1967), which revealed the background of Sikorski’s mysterious but convenient death in a British plane crash
on July 4, 1943. For more startling revelations about this, see his Churchills War , vol. ii published summer 1999. The above news item is reproduced without editing other than typographical Register your name and address to go on the Mailing List to receive [ Go