In Warsaw's Powązki cemetery there is a small monument that is always surrounded by fresh flowers and wreaths. The monument is mute - it bears no inscription, but crowds of our compatriots hurrying to lay flowers a the monument know very well whom it commemorates. Therefore, they keep it in caring memory, look after it and visit it as a tomb of a close relative or a friend.
Recently, a counterpart of this monument has been erected in London's Gunnersbury cemetery. It is larger and more imposing because there is mo reason for it to be hidden. [...] The inscription on the monument says, or more correctly cries, cries for the whole world to hear: "Katyń. 1940". [...] The little cemetery was not able to accommodate more than a few thousand visitors but thanks to television and newspapers the ceremony was witnessed by many people also in places distant from this country, and everywhere voices could be heard expressing shame and indignation at the unbelievable impudence of Moscow's demands and absolutely incredible and unnecessary pusillanimity of the Labour government. Due to this pusillanimity no British uniforms could be seen at the cemetery for officers in active service were forbidden to attend the official ceremonies. The government did not send its representatives - not even those of a lower rank. Fortunately - in the free world - many words of condemnation were expressed for those guilty of committing the crime and those responsible for the failure to honour the victims.
The leading organs of the British press published photographs of the obelisk bearing the inscription - "Katyń 1940"- that clearly indicates who the culprits are. The monument was aptly described as a "finger accusingly pointing at the Soviet Union".
London, October 15, 1976
H. Świeżawska, Oskarżający obelisk (The Accusing Obelisk), „Myśl Polska" No. 19-20, 1976