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...Harvard. "Almost daily I receive letters from unknown friends in your country, cards with wishes and expressions of good cheer. I have pondered what could link people living in such different political and social systems and so far from each other. What could link workers of the Gdansk shipyard and the scholarly community of Harvard University? I believe that this emotional closeness is based on a system of shared fundamental values. Their source is not hard to find; it is contained in every copy of the Bible. The workers starting the strike and the process of transformation did not refer...
...messages between Harvard and Walesa, and at least one of them had a hand in getting Bok's letter to its destination. Another person actually handed the letter to Walesa. Aloian refuses to identify this last carrier, although he said in April, "It wasn't the Harvard Club of Gdansk...
...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...
...addition, Aloian contacted one of the journalist envoys, who had planned to visit Gdansk later in the month, and asked him to clarify matters with Walesa...
Harvard originally announced early in April that the Gdansk electrician had accepted an invitation to deliver the Commencement address in person, but later reports indicated that he would not leave Poland. After giving up on that possibility and selecting another Commencement speaker. Mexican poet Carlos Funnies, officials floated the possibility that Walesa would mail the speech, and that someone else would deliver...