Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly in the deified communist leaders. The goal of this "secular religion" manufactured in Moscow was to supersede the church and belief in God with a host of communist demigods, starting with Lenin and Stalin and ending with Rakosi for Hungarian consumption, Georghiu Dei for Rumanian, Boleslaw Bierut for Polish, and Wilhelm Pieck for East German. By this device the communists overrode the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no Gods before...
Last year Conway took a leave of absence to work at the Institute of Historical Research in London. He lived with a Polish family, the Starzewskis, and belonged to several London clubs. Starzewski, the Foreign Minister of the Polish government-in-exile, was "a warm and friendly person, but he and his family lived in a vanished world," Conway says...
...situation is basically unstable, Brzezinski stated, for as the external threat fades, Gomulka will lose his internal support. This, he believes, would lead either to the substitution of a pseudo-Stalinist regime, causing an uprising by the Polish people, or the fall of Gomulka's government and its replacement by a more democratic government, which in turn would lead to Russian intervention...
...said that Gomulka is now trying to rebuild the Polish Communist Party into an effective internal support...
Died. Jekuthiel Ginsburg, 68, gentle, absent-minded Polish-Jewish emigre professor of mathematics at Yeshiva University, founder (1932) and editor of the quarterly Scripta Mathematica, onetime child prodigy (he tutored university students when he was 16), author (Numbers and Numerals); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...