Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zionists, who needed not only arms but men, were split on methods of getting able-bodied new immigrants. Dr. Moshe Sneh, Polish-born member of the Jewish Agency Executive and leader of the Zionist underground Haganah during most of World War II, urged a speedup of immigration, including refugees from Communist-dominated Eastern Europe. Last week, two ships sailed from a Bulgarian port for Palestine with 15,000 Jewish refugees (including, said a London "authoritative source," Communist fifth columnists). The Jewish Agency, to avoid trouble, tried to stop the sailing. Promptly leftist Sneh resigned. Cried he: "The infamous Anglo-American...
...long, they swelled from a quartet to an octet, then to a chorus of 16. By the time Lieut. Leonard de Paur joined the regiment in Arizona, the 372nd Infantry's Glee Club had 55 members, were singing war songs and Negro spirituals with a fair amount of polish, and the Army finally put them on special duty, to do nothing but sing...
This tale is put on film with the high polish, the intelligence, and the mastery of tension that are to be expected of Director Alfred Hitchcock. But Robert Hichens' basic story is so intricate in plot and pattern-there are four interlocking triangles, and hints of two more-that only an inspired talent for drama and for characterization could have saved it from obvious artificiality. No such talent is in evidence; nor has Producer David O. Selznick improved matters in his screen play. The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister's wife (Ann Todd...
Another count was that he had gathered information about the secret police, used it in a petition asking U.N. intervention against "mistreatment of citizens by the Polish government." Again Lipinski used the charge to make a counterthrust. The secret police, he asserted, "adversely affected the freedom of every Polish citizen...
Although it had nothing to do with the case at trial, Lipinski's prosecutor tried to prove him a Nazi collaborator. Lipinski was arrested by the Gestapo, and later released, because he had advised Polish underground General Bor-Komorowski against the abortive 1944 Warsaw uprising which caused the Germans to destroy the city. Poles were not likely to forget that Moscow had also denounced Bor's uprising, after Radio Moscow called for it, and that the Red Army only a few miles away had not moved to save Bor from the Germans...