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...shared headquarters with the joint Soviet-Hungarian Police Committee (probable chairman: Soviet Police Boss Ivan Serov). To Hungarians this was proof that while it might suit the Russians to appear to be withdrawing, leaving Premier Janos Kadar to work out his own solution, they were, in fact, still in control...
When Soviet Secret Police Boss Ivan Serov, lately notorious in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), set up headquarters in Warsaw in 1944, he realized that the NKVD was for the first time operating in a country with a Catholic majority. He favored a gradual undermining of the Church's position rather than a direct frontal attack, picked a Polish political adventurer named Boleslaw Piasecki to lead a group of "progressive," i.e., proCommunist, Catholics. Piasecki had learned the tricks of his trade as an agent for Mussolini and later for the Gestapo, had organized shock troops to liquidate Red partisans...
...issue's longest story is the funniest and also the best. Ivan C. Karp's A Medicine Called Happiness tells part of the history of Hayyem Soloveichik, who is conspired against by his purposes and his father. The humor of the story comes both from Karp's odd eye for detail and from the picture of Hayyem's father, "the scholar," which Hyyam's oblique remarks create. When in the synagogue he is nudging his father to ask for money, he thinks, "I was faced with an iron will pretending to be religious ecstasy." The story is so readable because...
...have impoverished Poland to the point of desperation are part of a deliberately conceived Russian policy not very different from that of the Czars. Through 400 years the great powers surrounding Poland, seeking to exploit its estates and mines, have sought to crush Polish independence. From Russia's Ivan the Terrible, who invaded under the pretext of "gathering in of the Russian lands," to Sweden's Charles XII, whose declared Polish policy was "burn, destroy, rob and arrest," the invaders, as though fearing Poland's unquenchable spirit, have sought a "final solution...
...Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, "is headed by a man few Poles have ever seen-the Russian general Malinov. His name has never appeared in a Polish newspaper. He has never made a public appearance in Poland. He towers above all other officials-public or secret." Malinov's real name: Ivan Serov, Stalin's specialist in liquidation, who had already deported 1,500,000 Poles to Siberia. Serov, now Russia's secret police boss, last week was working in Hungary...