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...that a major Christian writer has appeared in Russia where the Christians have been oppressed for decades, while in the West, where there is complete freedom of religious practice, literature is nearly synonymous with agnosticism and moral relativism? -Czeslaw Milosz, author of The Captive Mind...
...began, as all great ventures must, with an idea. Cerebral, bespectacled Polish Emigré Czeslaw Bojarsky found himself in postwar Paris with an architectural engineer's degree, a distinguished war record, a wife and child to support-and a language barrier that barred him from practice. He tried making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note...
Schemer and Coup. Since last January's elections, one of Mikolajczyk's erstwhile followers had been scheming to take the Polish Peasant Party into the Government bloc. A few hours after the Government communique the schemer, sandy-haired, wispy-mustached Czeslaw Wycech and a handful of followers fell upon the offices of Mikolajczyk's party newspaper, Gazeta Ludowa. They took over, Wycech boasted, "not by force, but by revolutionary methods." The result was that Mikolajczyk's own paper was the only one in Warsaw to announce flatly that he had "shamelessly and mysteriously" fled the country...