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...Walesa’s cousin, Walter S. Brolewicz, who lives in New Jersey, was in Poland during the correspondence...
...aware of [Harvard] trying to contact him, and there were others too at the time, and there was much scurrying to see who can get to him,” Brolewicz said in a recent interview, recalling the competition to host the Polish leader. “But he was not easy to get to, he was in prison...it was hard, very hard...
...aware of the desire to give him this, but I don’t think there was one,” said Brolewicz, who in the past has accepted some of Walesa’s honors for him when he was unable to attend an institution. Many biographies of Walesa, however, do include the anecdote that he was awarded an honorary degree at Harvard’s 1983 Commencement exercises...
...other person outside Harvard offered an explanation for the discrepancy between Harvard's announcement and Walesa's words. Walter S. Brolewicz, a cousin of Walesa's from New Jersey, said he was in Gdansk when Walesa wrote his response to Bok. The letter, while encouraging, constituted a firm turndown, Brolewicz maintained. "It was very clear," he said on the day of Harvard's announcement. "The letter was written in a light that sounded very affirmative, but at the end it makes clear that he couldn't come...
Walesa may even have gone so far as to state that he "accepts" Harvard's invitation, Brolewicz said. But, he insisted, "I spoke to him about it and I'm positive he was quite frustrated that he couldn't make...
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