Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poles Apart
"Dear Comrade." Some crucial questions were still to "be determined by special agreement." One: Who will pay for the support of the troops? In Moscow last month Gomulka had indicated that the Russians had agreed to shoulder all expenses. Another question concerned the number, deployment and movement of Soviet units...
What Russia promises and what Russia delivers are often two different things. But Western experts consider the agreement a clear victory for Gomulka. For contrast, they point to the treatment of the Rumanian delegation that recently journeyed to Moscow to ask for a similar agreement. The Rumanians were baldly told...
As the Israelis pulled slowly back along their three invasion roads, they tore up or blew up the shoreline railway tracks, chopped down telegraph poles, and dynamited even railworkers' huts. The most awesome destruction they wrought on the roads themselves. At a point ten miles east of the canal...
He sits in a desperate middle: if Poles are content for now to seek to alleviate rather than to overthrow Communism, it is because, watching Hungary's revolt with anguished sympathy, they see that other nations will not come to their aid, and they know that Russia is far...