Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realize the dangers involved," he said, "[but if the U.S. rejects the Poles], we will either be forcing a suffering nation into a fruitless revolt or we will be forcing the Polish government to again become hopelessly dependent on Moscow. If we fail to help the Poles, who else in Germany, Czechoslovakia, or anywhere else behind the Iron Curtain will dare stand up to the Russians and look westward...
...worked as an agent for Mussolini, later for the Gestapo; when he was picked up by the NKVD, he eagerly ratted on his associates, most of whom were promptly liquidated. But nervous Boleslaw, casting about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar and plenty of caviar and cognac to drive the blues away. Piasecki did his best...
Even less successful was the organization of the Patriot Priests, headed by Father Jan Czuj, hard-drinking dean of Warsaw University's theological faculty, who started with a group of Catholic chaplains in the Polish army who had been trained and brainwashed in the U.S.S.R. during the war. By best estimates, the group never numbered more than...
...from home each day, or else drew crosses on the walls. Even some party functionaries sought out remote churches to attend Mass and held clandestine church weddings late at night, the bride bringing her veil in a briefcase. Piety became a form of protest. Swedes began noticing that the Polish sailors visiting their ports did not swear the way they used to. Well, said the sailors, they'd rather be good than Communist...
...Touch with the World. "Modest obscurity" is a phrase that might also describe Wyszynski's life in his own unpalatial episcopal palace in Warsaw at No. 17 Miodowa, unmarked by any emblem except a faded Polish flag. In the two-story, double-winged building, Wyszynski lives austerely with his hale-looking, greyheaded father (in his '80s), his private chaplain, and his secretary. Visitors from outside Poland are welcome (Americans are plied with questions about the speed of U.S. cars and the wonders of television). Wyszynski sees everyone who wants to see him, except reporters. He keeps in touch...