Word: jozef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever happens to Poland, her writers must not forget the lessons of history, said Jan Jozef Szczepanski at the International Seminar last night. Speaking on "Societies in Transition," Szczepanski cited the Polish writers' role in the last 185 years as a guide to contemporary authors' quest for freedom...
...vignettes, CBS's See It Now presented "Poland, 1957," an engrossing, hour-long documentary on the Communist satellite since it gained a limited amount of freedom from Russia last year. Occasionally, the brisk pace was slowed to a walk, as when Poland's brooding, egg-bald Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz deadpanned noncommittal answers to Correspondent Daniel Schorr's questions. But for the most part the pictures, the reporting, and the narration by Edward R. Murrow succeeded in projecting their intended impression of "a nation on a tightrope," still unsure about its new status. "The typical Polish gesture," summed...
...Catholic writer collected seven abstentions and a former active Stalinist got two outright nays. The worst treatment was given former Stalin Prizewinner Leon Kruczkowski, who hit four nays and seven abstentions. But the most excitement was caused by a single vote raised against the re-election of Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. Said the man who cast the vote: "I just don't like him." Nothing like it had happened in Poland in a long time...
Private Worm. Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski was born 100 years ago in eastern Poland, which then, as now, was under Russian domination. The church was harassed; even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over...
After the signing, toasts were cordial. Polish Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz toasted "dear Comrade Shepilov" and "dear Comrade Zhukov." Shepilov saluted "friendly and fraternal Poland," hailed the agreement as "a striking example of a new type of international relations established among socialist countries...