"People of more matchless moral and physical courage than the Poles have never existed, and a sense of pride at having fought and been closely associated with them in their scarce unbroken struggles, is always with me."
Ron Jeffery ( “Red Runs the Vistula” )
Nie bylo nigdy narodu o tak niezrownanej odwadze moralnej i fizycznej jak Polacy i dlatego nigdy nie opuscilo mnie poczucie dumy, ze bylo mi dane walczyc z nimi ramię w ramię w ich rzadko spotykanych, nieprzerwanych zmaganiach.
"The partition of Poland was an act of wanton violence, committed in open defiance not only of popular feeling but of public law. For the first time in modern history a great state was suppressed, and a whole nation divided among its enemies."
Lord Acton
Rozbior Polski byl aktem rozpasanej przemocy, nie tylko otwartym zaprzeczeniem powszechnych odczuc, ale tez pogwalceniem miedzynarodowego prawa. Po raz pierwszy w nowoczesnej historii, wielkie panstwo zostalo zdlawione, zas caly jego narod podzielony miedzy wrogow.
"Had Pilsudski and Weygand failed to arrest the triumphant advance of the Soviet Bolshevik Army at the Battle of Warsaw, not only would Christianity have experienced a dangerous reverse, but the very existence of Western civilization would have been imperiled."
Edgar Vincent D'Abernon
Jesliby Pilsudskiemu i Weygandowi nie udalo sie powstrzymac tryumfalnego pochodu bolszewickiej armi w bitwie pod Warszawa, nie tylko chrzescijanstwo znalazloby sie w niebezpiecznym odwrocie, ale zagrozone zostaloby samo istnienie zachodniej cywilizacji.
"I judged the Poles by their enemies. And I found it was an almost unfailing truth that their enemies were the enemies of magnanimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery, if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I have always found that he added to these affections the passion of a hatred of Poland. She could be judged in the light of that hatred; and the judgment has proved to be right."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Osadzalem Polakow po ich wrogach. I niezmiennie odkrywalem, ze ich wrogowie byli wrogami wielkodusznosci i czlowieczenstwa. Jesli ktos kochal zniewolenie, lichwe, ucisk i nurzanie sie w blocie materialistycznej polityki, zawsze okazywalo sie, iz do owych sklonnosci dodawal namietną nienawisc do Polski. Polske mozna bylo osadzac w swietle tej nienawisci; ow osąd okazal sie trafny.
Komentarz Kolegi Zmęczon-ego ( wielkie dzięki )
· "The scene that presented itself at this moment can never be effaced from my memory; both [Polish] officers and soldiers had all the appearance of those desperate banditti described in romances; their long moustachios, their faces blackened by smoke and gunpowder, and their bloody and torn cloaths, giving to their whole appearance a degree of indescribable ferocity."
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