Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poles do not compare the new Sejm to a Western parliament, for there is no organized parliamentary opposition. The most they hope for-and it is a hope which already gives a certain pride to the faces of the Sejm Deputies-is that it will become a place in which...
Hard set against this course were the old-line Stalinists headed by outgoing Party Chairman William Z. Foster, whom the dead dictator handpicked for his job in 1929. Rumbled old (75), ailing (heart disease) Chairman Foster, who had powerful Soviet and French Communist support: the Gates proposals would strip Marx...
Months of Violence. His mind was obviously on Cuba's current, running-sore revolt. Though the dictator's army is well equipped, it so far has been ineffectual against the kind of "internal conflict" that has plagued the island for nearly three months. Bomb-bursts terrorize Havana almost...
FIGHTING WARSAW, by Stefan Korbonski (495 pp., Macmillan; $6.75), presents the memoirs of the last leader of the Polish underground, and for the first time fully tells the story of the thousands who died in a futile effort to free Poland. At first, the politically ill-assorted, mutually suspicious underground...
When the Jews of Warsaw made their despairing 1943 insurrection against the Germans, the underground felt unable to offer armed help. Korbonski's radio team flashed the news to London as they watched smoke and fire rising from the ghetto (said Korbonski's wife: "It will be easier...