George Howard Earle III
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George Howard Earle III was an American politician and diplomat from Pennsylvania. He was a member of the prominent Earle and Van Leer families and the 30th governor of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939.
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1935–1939
Earle and his wife at the White House after visiting President Roosevelt, 1938
Katyn massacre
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The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Poles carried out by the Soviet Union between April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the NKVD prisons in Kalinin, Kharkiv and el
George Howard Earle III
…was appointed as the Minister to Bulgaria in 1940 and served as a special emissary to the Balkans during World War II. He compiled a report blaming the Katyn massacre of Polish intelligentsia on the Soviet Union, but this report was suppressed. After the war, he served as assistant governor of American Samoa. He…
Mass grave of Polish officers in Katyn Forest, exhumed by Germany in 1943
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signs the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Behind him: Ribbentrop and Stalin.
Polish POWs captured by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland
Memo from Beria to Stalin which proposed the execution of Polish officers, policemen, etc.