My Polish-American dad told me a story of how his father came home from work one day [in the US] in tears saying "the British pigs killed Sikorski" for saying that as long as one Pole was alive, they'd never acquiesce to anything Hitler demanded. Apparently, the British didn't like this because they wanted to avoid war at all costs and with talk like that from a Polish military leader, war would be inevitable.
Can anyone give me any insight into his comment about Germany? Did he say that? Did the British have any official response to his "fightin" words? Is the story of his death as assassination regarded as true in Poland? Just a conspiracy? Here's his wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski
After the German invasion of Russia brought the USSR into the war on the allied side, the western allies' relationships with the Poles became rather complex. The Soviets had taken part in the invasion of Poland in 1939 and Stalin was known to despise the Poles. The discovery of the Katyn Massacre by advancing German forces was another sticking point: Stalin claimed the massacre had been perpetuated by the Germans but the Sikorski didn't buy it and pushed hard for an investigation. Of course, the USSR was now a major ally and the British Government didn't want to piss them off, so they declined, and ascribed Katyn to German propaganda, but Sikorski continued pushing on Katyn, trying to get a Red Cross investigation underway and eventually Stalin broke off diplomatic relations with the London Poles and formed a new Polish Communist government in exile.
Sikorski went on a tour of Polish formations in the middle east in 1943 but his Liberator crashed off Gibraltar and he was killed. It was ruled an accident, but conspiracy theories that he was offed by the British, or the Soviets, or even another Polish faction remain, and are still under investigation by the current Polish government (so clearly have wide currency).
If Sikorski was killed by the British, it will have been because he had become a very inconvenient ally rather than for anything to do with his perceived role in starting the war, I suspect. However, de Gaulle became an equally inconvenient ally and he wasn't killed at all so, who knows.
I don't know the source of the quote you mention, but there was plenty of that sort of sentiment sloshing around Poland in 1939 - take for example Foreign Minister Jozef Beck's famous response to Hitler's demands over Danzig in spring 1939:
"Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor."