Handwritten Script
This item consists of a handwritten script of a radio broadcast given by Ronald Reagan on his syndicated radio commentary show "Viewpoint" regarding the Katyn Forest Massacre.
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OCR Page 1 of 3Radio - Katyn Forest
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not all memories are pleasant but me shouldn't
part the unpleasant ones out of am mind at least
not all of them. I'll be right back.
In a tiny cemetry in Tremendery Eng on sept. 18th
7000 people from all over the would gathered for the
unviviting of a
21 for payment to Carol
on Fone with The Polich
wearing of
and inserved on the
It is a 21 pt. pyramed learning the inscription Katyn
1940" and a carved Polish eagle with a crown of benled
wire. Katyn is a name ward we should all remember, It
is the name of a forest in Poland. But the
does not memorialize a place. It is dedicated to 14,500 Palish
officers who served in the defense of Poland N her the Mazi's
were invading from the West Q the Russians from the OV ast.
The officers disappeared when the invading forces met
and divided Poland
a few years later a mass grave was fornd in the
K utyn forest. It contained the leders of forty five
hundred of those Polish officers who had been executed and
buried there. W hat of the other 10,000? dt is believed they
were put on larges that were towed out into my
anotic
better waters and sunk drowning all on board.
For a time this was thought te be first another
nazi aturity but with the tries the truth
was finally revealed. The 14,500 officer captured by
had learn
the Russians and murdened in 1940 - the date nown
inscribed on the memorial as a matter of fact the Germans
had found the grave in 1943 in what had been Russian
had dug the grave and then standing on the pits ledge had been machine gunned.
occupied territory preclerving the partition of Paland The 4, 500
The selection of climity is an interesting
side light on relations between the free world and the saviet U.
maybe we need to be reminded there is still a Palish
gent. in exile in Loudon. In 1971 the movement to
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