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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Radio - Katyn Forest / 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