Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most Poles are Catholics," he told me afterwards. "It is the Polish custom to start a dedication with a Mass. It has been so for centuries. It would be silly to upset so old a tradition...
...Polish Communists have not upset such traditions. They voted to keep the words "So help me God" in the oath of office for government posts. When they nationalized Poland's large estates, they exempted all church property. But they say privately: "The last fight will be with the church...
Wherever you go in Poland you find Communists in the key posts, working longer and harder hours than almost anybody else to make up in energy what they lack in numbers. In the large slice of Germany which the Potsdam Conference turned over to Polish administration, they have the mayors of the two biggest cities: Zaremba at Szczecin and Bronislaw Kupczynski at Wroclaw (once Breslau...
...decline the invitation to the Paris conference. Ships flying the flags of 14 nations were in Gdynia the day I landed. But even Poland's ports are not entirely her own. The former German Swinemunde, now Swinoujscie, has thousands of Red fleet sailors. One of the few Polish sailors I saw there said sourly: "This is a Soviet base." Swinoujscie's ice-cream shop had the Russian word for "ice cream," morozhenoye, before the Polish word, lody...
Another law forces all small businessmen (big business has been nationalized) to get permission for every product they make from the Communist Minister of Industry, Poland's biggest producer and their own chief competitor. Most Poles believe that within three years all Polish shops will be state-owned...