Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Craignez honte-Fear disgrace-is the motto of Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck family. It does not mean "Fear accusations." Poland's Communists, abetted by their comrades in London, used the technique of the personal smear campaign against British Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, who faced it coolly. Then Polish Government officials simply refused to see Cavendish-Bentinck. Last week, his usefulness in Warsaw ended, he announced that he had been transferred to another post. London sources said it was a better...
Cavendish-Bentinck's Polish experience had been bitter. To find out what was going on, he had driven around Poland, visited old friends, including some aristocrats he had known since 1919, when he was assigned to Warsaw as Third Secretary. Last November the Polish Government arrested his friend Count Ksawery Grocholski, whooped up an espionage trial that pointed to Cavendish-Bentinck (without naming him) as the recipient of "military and state secrets...
...shortly after. The contents of neither complaint have ever been made public in Britain. A Warsaw paper, Express Wieczorny, took up the Daily Worker's cry under a headline: "One Wife and Five Mistresses," asserting that Cavendish-Bentinck had "five women, each in a different country." Next, the Polish Government arrested Cavendish-Bentinck's 56-year-old translator, Maria Marynowska, hinting that she was implicated in the Grocholski "plot...
...only two days before the Polish elections-elections so long and carefully rigged that the actual casting of the ballots was anti-climactic (TIME, Jan. 13). That day, Manhattan's tabloid PM made a promise: to "attempt to cut through the charges and countercharges that have surrounded the election campaign, and present ... a clear picture of what's going on." The reporter who got the assignment had left the U.S. only the day before. The correspondent: PM's flim-flamboyant ex-editor Ralph Ingersoll, whose politics are left of leftish...
Seventy-two hours later, Ingersoll wrote off as a "lunatic fringe" those Poles who did not believe that "Poland's foreign policy must be practically identical with Russia's, and Poland's Government must be acceptable as well to Russia." A seasoned Polish observer of six days' standing, Correspondent Ingersoll concluded that it was "a highly complicated situation which cannot easily be analyzed in brief news dispatches." That didn't stop him from trying. Everybody damns the Government's secret police for "excesses and almost all agree that it is presently unpopular with most...