Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No single man can compete with the millions of nameless Hungarians and Poles who have defied Soviet tyranny in these past few weeks. Let these heroes be your symbol for this year and, indeed, for this coming decade of renewed hope for those still oppressed.
Wyszynski's parting words showed his anxiety for Poland's future. "Poles can die heroically. A man can only die once and thus quickly cover himself in fame, but our lives are spent in long years of toil, trial and tribulation. That is still more heroic. This is...
Eleven-Year Silence. Poland's break with Russia was the spark. Hungarian students got permission to express sympathy with the Poles by gathering silently before Budapest's Polish embassy. Then the Central Committee of the Communist Party canceled the permit. Party Leader Erno Gero, belatedly conferring with Tito...
In a solemn but peaceful mood, the students went to pay their respects to Poland. Ten abreast down the broad Danube quays they marched to Petofi Square, named after National Hero Sandor Petofi, a poet who sang songs of national liberation and in 1848 drew up the manifesto that launched...
In Bonn a diplomat recalled an old Polish proverb: "The Poles and the Hungarians are brothers in blood and in drink." In London a Foreign Office expert recalled a point of history. "The Poles and the Hungarians are the rebels of Eastern Europe; they were the only ones to rise...