Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the State Department, the Polish attempt-which had been gathering momentum for weeks-seemed to be a vindication of Western policy. Whether the U.S. will now proffer aid to the Poles is still under consideration. As Secretary of State Dulles put it: "Anything which weakens this great structure of...
What took place in six tense hours in Warsaw last week was an open defiance of the Kremlin, not by the oppressed people of Poland, but by their Communist rulers, who in an anxious testing moment acted as Poles first and dutiful Communists second. And for the first time in...
Always the Rosjanie. In its thousand years of history Poland has been many times dominated from the East. Out of the eastern steppe have come barbaric conquerors, feudal overlords, religious crusaders, imperialists and Communists, but to the Poles they have always been the Rosjanie-the Russians. Though often overrun, cut...
This was independence with a vengeance. The Kremlin's new leaders might be willing to bend with the times, to grant the satellites some easements in order to make their own control more secure. But now the Poles were asking them to loosen their tight hold on Poland. Of...
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, instructor in Government, said, "The Polish situation poses for the Soviet leadership an almost insoluble problem. To use force against the Poles might mean a crisis in international communism, e.g., a renewed defection by Tito, difficulties with the Italian Communist party, possibly even strained relations with Mao...