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...Poznan headquarters I was turned over to a character right out of Gogol-a middleaged, dark-bearded gentleman in the uniform of a Polish major, nine medals (not ribbons, medals) on his chest. His name was Vinokurov-a distinctly Russian name, but he agreed to speak Russian to me only when it became clear that conversation in Polish was quite impossible. The Major was scrupulously polite. I showed him my passport, Russian zonal permit, car registration, driver's license, etc. All were in order, but the Major went on to other questions: How was it that I spoke Russian...
Mikolajczyk was 17, fresh from his father's 50-acre farm in Poznan, when he joined the Polish uprising against the crumbling German Army. Two years later (1920), he was a private in the new Polish Army that beat the new Russian Army back from Warsaw...
...People. Mikolajczyk became the first peasant to be elected president of the Poznan Farming Association-an event that raised the provincial gentry's eyebrows. He also became a follower of Wincenty Witos, greatest of Polish peasant leaders. Grand, gruff old Witos watched his disciple with peasant skepticism. "Mikolajczyk is no peasant," he once growled. "He has neither the peasant's character, nor his sense of humor, nor his bad habits." But the peasants dissented. They kept voting for their Poznan farmer; in 1930 they sent him to the Sejm (Parliament) in Warsaw. When Witos was forced into exile...
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan...
Parable in Poznan. Important as they were to Russia and to Europe, the Balkan treaties in themselves were not enough to drive the Big Powers so far toward fission. One evident reality was that Molotov did not want to defend Russia's oppressive Balkan regimes before too big an audience; his objecting to French and Chinese participation was his way of avoiding that unpleasant task...