Word: breslau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During my recent tour of duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Department I spent about 15 months in Wiesbaden, where Miss Rosenberger was my secretary. Orphaned by the war, she fled Breslau before the Russians and made her way on bicycle and afoot to Wiesbaden where, in 1945, she went to work for the Americans. There she is today, a DP among her own people...
...some Queens residents had a candidate of their own: Acting President Margaret V. Kiely. Others, including Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet, attacked Hovde because he had been critical of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had attended the Moscow-sponsored World Congress of Intellectuals in Breslau last summer (where he had, it was admitted, made a stout anti-Soviet speech-TIME, Sept...
Time was when the proceedings of anything calling itself the World Congress of Intellectuals would have been dignified and deadly dull. Last week, however, when such a congress met in Poland's Wroclaw (formerly Germany's Breslau), the spectators could not decide which ring of the circus to watch...
...congress in Wroclaw (once Breslau), Poland's Socialist Party heard a fateful summons last week. Poland's Communist Party Secretary General and Vice Premier, Wladyslaw Gomulka, told them: "Conditions make it imperative that a common front must lead to one party." What Gomulka meant was that the time had come for the Socialists to let themselves be swallowed by the smaller Communist Party...
...harder hours than almost anybody else to make up in energy what they lack in numbers. In the large slice of Germany which the Potsdam Conference turned over to Polish administration, they have the mayors of the two biggest cities: Zaremba at Szczecin and Bronislaw Kupczynski at Wroclaw (once Breslau...