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Word: mokotow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The New Treason | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Without Bloodshed? | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Without Bloodshed? | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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