Word: lipinsky
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...trial's last day, Lipinski in the prisoner's dock had a visit from his son, with whom he chatted calmly until court convened. Then he stood to hear his sentence: death...
...year ago, anti-Communist Lipinski was charged with treason and espionage involving the supply of information to the U.S. and British embassies in Warsaw. Six others tried with him "confessed," but even after a year in the Mokotow Prison, where many an iron will snaps, Lipinski refused to enter a guilty plea...
...count was that he created the "illegal" National Independence Party to oppose the government. True, said Lipinski, adding: "It was obliged to be an illegal party because there is no political freedom in this country. Public meetings of my party were suppressed in violation of the Constitution." The court tried .to shush him. Shouted Lipinski: "I know my rights...
Another count was that he had gathered information about the secret police, used it in a petition asking U.N. intervention against "mistreatment of citizens by the Polish government." Again Lipinski used the charge to make a counterthrust. The secret police, he asserted, "adversely affected the freedom of every Polish citizen...
Although it had nothing to do with the case at trial, Lipinski's prosecutor tried to prove him a Nazi collaborator. Lipinski was arrested by the Gestapo, and later released, because he had advised Polish underground General Bor-Komorowski against the abortive 1944 Warsaw uprising which caused the Germans to destroy the city. Poles were not likely to forget that Moscow had also denounced Bor's uprising, after Radio Moscow called for it, and that the Red Army only a few miles away had not moved to save Bor from the Germans...