Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defection was welcomed not only for the information he brought, but as a badly needed shot in the arm for Western "spook" organizations, which are one of Berlin's major industries. They have had a bad year. The chief of a West Berlin refugee camp for Russian and Polish defectors last month was arrested and reportedly confessed that he had been working for the Communists since spring. The potent Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, whose network of spies in East Germany helps make life miserable for the Red rulers of that unhappy state, suffered a series of body blows...
...sick mother and sister in Warsaw. He reported to a friend: "My mother said she is afraid she will never see me again. What could I tell her?" He became bored with the language lessons and abandoned them. He became a dreaded guest at parties given by Polish emigres. At one he began whistling through his fingers like "a Warsaw hooligan." When another guest proved he could whistle louder, Marek furiously overturned the table, smashing liquor bottles and china. The U.S. foundation quietly backed off from so unstable a protege...
...technical" reasons, said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano last week, the Holy See has withdrawn diplomatic privileges from the envoys of the Polish and Lithuanian pre-war governments. Henceforth, the dean of the Vatican diplomatic corps, Casimir Papee, Ambassador from the Polish government in exile, and Stanislaus Girdvainis. minister from Lithuania before Russia annexed that country in 1940, will probably serve as chargés d'affaires. But no matter how technical the reasons, insiders in Rome buzzed with speculation that the move signaled a new phase of diplomatic relations between Vatican and Kremlin...
...that the omissions were made because the two diplomats represented "phantom" governments that are no longer recognized by other countries accredited to the Holy See. That statement itself was enough for old Vatican hands to sense a new atmosphere; under Pius XII, who made a point of keeping the Polish and Lithuanian envoys as anti-Communist symbols, there had not been any reference to phantoms...
...brought about at least partly by Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski during his recently-completed 22-month visit to Rome. As the church's highest-ranking prelate who deals with Communism at first hand, Wyszynski is said to have made this case to Pope John and Cardinal Tardini: Polish Premier Gomulka is increasingly dependent on Poland's Catholics (82.4% of the population) to keep him at least partly independent of Moscow's smothering embrace, and the situation might be used to pry from Gomulka some additional concessions to Polish Catholics. But one of Wyszynski's embarrassments...