Word: poznan
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...misery," said a defense lawyer in a tense Poznan courtroom last week, "stems from the fact that we have not told the truth for many years and that now we must tell it." Then, as the court handed down a series of lenient sentences (18 months to 6 years, and some suspensions) on young men charged with the heinous crime of fighting against the Communist authority, all Poland began to feel that the time might soon come when the truth about Poland would be told. Said an old Communist, blighted by years of purgings: "This is the beginning...
This was the frame of mind which the Polish Communists had deliberately set out to create when they decreed free and fair trials, unprecedented in a Communist country, for the rioters of Poznan...
Under the eyes of a score of correspond ents and legal observers from Western countries they told pitiable tales of misery and desperation (TIME, Oct. 8). But the key manipulators of the trials were the civil defense lawyers who skillfully brought out in evidence everything the Poznan demonstrators had wanted to tell to the world...
...them hooligans and criminal elements. But since the revolution was won, they are national heroes, and their picture has become a symbol of revolution." Hejmowski's meaning was clear: when the "revolution," i.e., Po land's break away from the Russians, is consummated the defendants in the Poznan court might well become heroes...
...testimony of 19-year-old Wladyslaw Caczkowski. He told how he and a gang of youngsters had ridden from one police station to another in a truck, collecting arms. They had driven out into the country to get more arms, and when they found the roads back to Poznan blocked by tanks they sought refuge at a state farm. There, Caczkowski said, "I realized I had done wrong." So he telephoned for police and surrendered himself. When police came "they treated me as though they were in the SS. They beat me and kicked me after I had given myself...