Word: polishings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...half years ago the fate of 16 Poles almost broke up the San Francisco Conference which was planning the United Nations. Pretending to live up to its Yalta promise to broaden the Polish Government, Russia had lured the 16 underground leaders out of hiding. Then, violating their promise of safe conduct, the Russians had kidnaped the 16, tried them for "diversionary acts" against the Red Army, sentenced them to prison. The U.S. and Britain set up such a squawk that the Russians reduced some of the sentences...
...last month all but one of the 16 were still either in prison or had begun working for the Communists. That one, Kazimierz Baginski, still struggled for democracy in Warsaw as press officer in Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
...what looked like an opening skirmish one night around the Place de 1'Etoile, in which stands the Arch of Triumph. At 9 p.m. in the Salle Wiagram an organization called "The League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight at 7! Silence to the insulters of the Soviet Union...
Fourteen days after his disappearance in Poland (TIME, Nov. 3), Polish Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk turned up in Britain. He had spent 28 months opposing Poland's Communist-run minority, finally fled in fear of his life...
...story of a hard, admirable piece of pioneering: the washing of salt from a few hundred acres of the Dead Sea desert, and the reclamation of the soil. It is crudely made, but at its best moments its crudity and deep emotion seem more proper to each other than polish could...