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...parade started with sad-faced Sam Zakman, 44, sometime union organizer and former Communist who was a commissar with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. "I always liked the organizing field," Zakman explained simply, although he admitted he "wasn't very successful at it." One day in 1950 Zakman approached one Sam Berger, then manager of an International Ladies Garment Workers Union local in New York, asked Berger to help him pick up a charter for a union. 'I had a family to support," said Zakman. "Here was a chance to organize a trade...
...Polish refugees in Germany. In Pittsburgh TIME'S correspondent interviewed U.S. travelers who had recently seen Wyszynski. Result: the first comprehensive story on the man whose experiment in coexistence brought religious freedom to Poland and probably saved the country from Hungary's fate. See RELIGION, Cardinal & the Commissar...
...fervent faith of more than 27 million Poles. Wielding that faith as a moral weapon, Wyszynski has forced from Wladyslaw Gomulka's government a degree of religious freedom and recognition for his church undreamed of anywhere else in the Communist world. Today the cardinal and the commissar lean on each other in a breathtakingly precarious balancing act. protecting each other against extremists in both the Catholic and the Communist camp, personally opposed in everything except Polish patriotism and a talent for tough-minded compromise. It is a strange coexistence between the cross and the hammer-and-sickle. But Masses...
Pending issues. With poverty souring the country's mood, both cardinal and commissar are constantly trying to damp down the tension between them. Pending issues, which will also constitute a major part of Wyszynski's agenda in his talks with the Pope...
...elated. Many a poor visionary in New York-remembering a fellow sometimes called Bronstein who had lived in The Bronx and would lecture for $10 a night-now felt the taste of vicarious power and destiny when he heard that this shabby comrade had become the great Trotsky, Commissar for Foreign Affairs...