Word: orlemanski
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...bridal suite of Moscow's National Hotel last week, burly, beaming Father Stanislaus Orlemanski put his extra rabats into his suitcase, made ready to return to the U.S. and his Polish-American parishioners at Springfield, Mass.* But first, as a volunteer Polish-Catholic emissary to the U.S.S.R., he had several things to do. Back to the Kremlin he went for a second two-hour talk with Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. They were, he said, "two great men." The talks, he said, produced "results beyond my expectations...
Free Poles? Father Orlemanski went to a Moscow radio studio. In Polish, he addressed the Poles in Poland: "Dear people of my fatherland. . . . We are Slavs, and allied Poland and Russia will be the largest force in the east. This union will bring great good both to Poland and Russia and will secure peace for ourselves for hundreds of years. . . . Long live a strong, free, independent, democratic Poland...
Free For All. For two and a half hours last week, business in the House of Representatives stood still while Polish-American members denounced Russia on the 154th anniversary of the first Polish Constitution. Father Orlemanski drew a share of the abuse. Said Representative John Lesinski of Dearborn, Mich.: "Remembering Judas Iscariot ... I can't help wondering what price the priest is asking to betray the land of his forefathers, his Church and the loyal Americans of Polish descent...
Apostle or Traitor? The press made a great mystery of Father Orlemanski's trip, wasted reams on speculation about how he got to Moscow and why he was there. He himself supplied one answer: he expected to hurry back to the U.S., explain Russia's side in the Polish controversy to violently anti-Russian U.S. Poles. From Moscow, New York Timesman Ralph Parker noted that the Russians would find a Catholic priest's help handy in placating Poland's intensely religious Catholics. In Washington, the State Department curtly explained the passport: it was issued...
...Orlemanski visit fitted into a pattern. So did Molotov's placatory statement on Rumania (TIME, April 10), Moscow's temperate attitude toward stubborn Finland and the recognition of Marshal Badoglio's tainted regime (see col. 2). Now a Springfield, Mass, priest, supporting a cause in which he himself believed, was apparently being used to underline Moscow's new technique of friendship...