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Rocard, who is 14 years younger than Mitterrand, has an engaging, feisty personality; his quick mind and sharp tongue come across well on television. Above all, he appeals to non-Socialist moderates. He has never concealed his distaste for the Union of the Left, the Socialist-Communist alliance that almost...
The comment by the West German foreign ministry expert that "the Polish cavalry fought German Panzers with drawn sabers during World War II" [Sept. 1] compels me to correct a myth. While it is true that the Poles had a great deal of cavalry, they never charged German tanks.
The technology is there, but only rarely, as in Poland, does an odd set of circumstances permit a real glimpse of turmoil across an ideological barrier. Even then Americans saw much more on television than the Poles were allowed to see, and the rest of the Communist world was told...
Poles themselves give the impression of being a people constantly shushing one another. They have to; the message is always clear: Let's not go too far; remember Czechoslovakia. But if there were only shushing, hardships would never be eased. As in all Communist regimes, Poland's leaders...
But the city had grimmer moments, too. The vast wave of immigration in the 18th century stirred racial and class biases among the old Cantabrigians, and among the new as well. As Sutton explains, "the Irish, Portuguese, Italians, Poles and other immigrants who settled the Point and the Port had...