Word: orlemanski
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...brick Church of Our Lady of the Rosary stands modestly on a busy street in Springfield, Mass. Through its massive doors on Sunday pass the parishioners, all Polish. To them there are few better men than the blond, 54-year-old pastor, U.S.-born Father Stanislaus Orlemanski...
...April 16 Father Orlemanski told a church group: "I'm going on a long trip and will bring home a surprise." Last week Moscow sprang his surprise. He had flown to Russia...
...Moscow theater, at 10 o'clock one night, Father Orlemanski was tapped on the shoulder, told to go to the Kremlin. There, for two hours, he was closeted with Premier Joseph Stalin, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Next Morning, the Communist Party's Pravda splashed a photograph across its front page: beaming Stalin, flanked by beaming Molotov, beaming Father Orlemanski (see cut). If Russia gasped that day, it had a good excuse: this was the first time Atheist Stalin had been photographed with a Catholic priest...
When U.S. newsmen trudged into Father Orlemanski's special "bridal suite" at the National Hotel, he joked, slapped backs, talked cautiously of his mission and his Kremlin interview: "Stalin wants a free, independent and democratic Poland." When he saw the photograph, he said: "This will make a rumpus in America, eh?" Patently hungry for all the publicity he could get, he impressed one correspondent as "a typical, tough Polish-American politician...