Word: mokotow
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...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...
...Walls of Mokotow. The front window of Mikolajczyk's four-room apartment opened on the grim red walls of Warsaw's Mokotow Prison. Behind these walls in recent weeks, Poland's Soviet-style secret cops had grilled Mikolajczyk's party lieutenants in relays. Lately, "confessions" had been bringing Mikolajczyk's own arrest closer. He had said many times: "I will never leave the country." But lately he had also been saying more & more often: "I will be arrested. And when I am, they will do to me what they did to Nikola Petkoff...
...absence to the Government. After six hours of scurrying and checking, the Government issued a guarded communique saying merely that the Polish Peasant Party's leader had disappeared, and was believed to have left the country. In Warsaw and Washington, some thought that Mikolajczyk had been clapped into Mokotow Prison...
...Mokotow airport on the outskirts of the city there is a high turf bank from which twice every year Marshal Pilsudski used to review his troops. His coffin was brought to that bank. Veterans of the old Pilsudski legions kept back the crowds. Four squadrons of army planes flying in formation droned back & forth...
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