Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome to confer with Pope Paul VI on the Vatican's peace offensive, flew on to Paris to see Charles de Gaulle and then to London for discussions with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Roving Ambassador Averell W. Harriman surfaced in Warsaw, talked about Viet Nam with top Polish officials, including Communist Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, headed for Belgrade to see President Tito, planned thence to go to India. White House Special Assistant McGeorge Bundy went secretly to see Prime Minister Lester Pearson in Canada, which is one of three nations on the Viet Nam International Control Commission...
First came last October's startling memorandum from the West German Evangelical Church partly justifying the loss of the Oder-Neisse region in terms of German war guilt. More recently, it has been the Polish Catholics who have seemed to seek a new basis for understanding...
...Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, decided to ask East-and West-Germany's 54 bishops, archbishops and cardinals to attend the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of Poland's King Mieczyslaw I, to be celebrated in Czestochowa next May 3. In a remarkable 17-page invitation, the Polish primates reviewed the bitter record of Polish-German relations, concluded it had been an accident of history. "We grant forgiveness and we ask forgiveness," they said. "Let us seek to forget. No polemics, no more cold war, but the beginning of a dialogue...
Though the document defended Poland's postwar acquisition of the Oder-Neisse territories as a "basic question of existence," it sought forgiveness for the suffering of German refugees and expellees forced from their homelands in the Polish takeover. Such sentiments had not been heard by Germans from Poles since the war, and the German bishops were delighted to accept the invitation. In their response, they carefully explained that when Germans speak of their Heimatsrecht to the eastern territories, "it does not-with a few exceptions-signify aggressive intentions" but merely a feeling of remaining emotionally "linked to their homeland...
Fairy Tale. Polish Communist response was not moderate at all. Snarled the daily Zycie Warszawy: "Who in Poland empowered the Polish bishops to repent and forgive? On whose behalf have they done it? On behalf of the millions murdered in Auschwitz and Maidanek?" Other government papers chimed in, while "students" and "workers" rallied in Lodz, Szczecin and Warsaw to accuse the prelates of meddling in foreign affairs and sabotaging the national interest...