Word: korowicz
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...ninth floor, then took an elevator to the lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor of international law at Cracow University and the top legal adviser to the delegation, made his way out from behind the Iron Curtain...
...following day, in the offices of the National Committee for a Free Europe, Professor Korowicz told his story to U.S. reporters. With him was the man he had telephoned, Stefan Korbonski, who escaped from Poland in 1947, now works for Radio Free Europe. After the call, Korbonski had met Korowicz and arranged for a place where he could stay, safe from Communist reprisals...
...Marek Korowicz, a bachelor with no close relatives in Poland, had spent the last seven years quietly teaching his law classes at Cracow. Although he never joined the Communist Party, he kept his opposition to himself and did not give the regime any trouble. Early this month, he was unexpectedly summoned to the Foreign Ministry, told that he would go to New York as legal adviser and first alternate to the delegation. He decided then to escape, but he waited until he had been formally seated as a member of the delegation before making his break...
Once free, Korowicz asked Secretary of State Dulles for asylum in the U.S. (More than 200 other Russian and satellite diplomats have similarly sought safety in the West since 1945.) Then he sent letters renouncing his Polish credentials to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit now president of the General Assembly (see INTERNATIONAL). He wrote: "It is... absolutely impossible for me to collaborate with these representatives-not of my beloved country-but solely of the Soviet regime in Poland...
...Polish delegation, considerably confused by Korowicz' departure, put out a hasty statement suggesting that he was "not acting on his free will." Answered Korowicz: "I am very happy to be free in the free world. Life in Poland was a nightmare. Yesterday, for the first time in seven years, I have been able to say what I truly think...