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Yet the majority opinion is disagreeable because it uses the Polish situation as a point of departure from which to engage in self-flagellating rhetoric--rhetoric which will be of little use to the Poles when the armed struggle begins. When the tanks roll into Poland it will be a...
Until noon, the country was at a standstill, as millions of Poles downed their tools in the latest-and perhaps riskiest-confrontation with the Warsaw regime. "We don't want to overthrow the Communist Party," Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa told fellow strikers at a Warsaw steel mill. "We...
Moscow's tough talk was backed up by extensive Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. The war games, originally scheduled to end last week, were prolonged indefinitely. Lengthy nightly television reports gave Poles a chilling view of amphibious landings, mock tank battles and simulated aerial assaults. Warsaw Pact...
Anti-Semitism has had a long and troubled history in Poland. Though Poles can claim a better record of tolerance than their Russian and German neighbors, suspicion and fear of the Jew as an outsider have all too frequently erupted over the centuries in persecution and pogroms. On the eve...
Solidarity's Warsaw chapter quickly called on Poles "to stand against the attempt at anti-Semitic action." The Communist Party also rejected the incipient antiSemitism. Said Party Chief Stanislaw Kania: "We do not think that the possibility exists to use anti-Semitism for any purpose. It was always foreign...