''I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American Ambassador Reports to the American People'' (1948) is a

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written by former United States ambassador to Poland,

Arthur Bliss Lane Arthur Bliss Lane (16 June 1894 – 12 August 1956) was a United States diplomat who served in Latin America and Europe. During his diplomatic career he dealt with the rise of a dictatorship in Nicaragua in the 1930s, World War II and its afterma ...

, who observed what he considered to be the betrayal of Poland by the

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at the end of

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. He resigned as ambassador in 1947 in order to inform Americans what was occurring "behind the Iron Curtain."

Publication history

A Polish version of the book was published in the United States, and later republished by an underground publishing house "Krąg" in 1984 in Communist-dominated Poland. The first English edition was published by the

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in 1948. The John Birch Society directed the publication of two further editions of the book, in 1961 as a part of '' One Dozen Candles, Vol. 2'' of the American Opinion reprint series and in 1965 as a part of Western Island’s ''Americanist Library'' series. The most recent English edition was published as a paperback by Literary Licensing, LLC in October 2011. A further Polish edition was published by Fronda in 2019. Lane, Arthur Bliss. ''Widzialem Polske Zdradzona''. Fronda, 2019. 432 p. / .

External links

* Full text of the 1948

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edition. * Full text of the 1965 Western Islands edition.

References

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