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...when it states that '"Vienna saved Europe." I refer to your account of the 250th anniversary of the siege of that city by Turkish hordes in their last great invasion of Europe [TIME, Sept, 25]. Although you make a brief allusion to the part played by King John Sobieski of Poland in dispersing the Turks you somewhat doubtfully add, "whoever won it, it was a great victory...
...destined to be one of the world's great generals, Prince Eugene of Savoy. Again the victory was not truly Austria's. What sent the Turkish legions pell mell back across the plains of Hungary was the arrival of the galloping lancers of King John Sobieski of Poland. Whoever won it, it was a great victory. Western Europe was saved for Christianity. The Turks never returned, but they left behind them things to enrich the world: coffee to start the first café in Vienna, the first lilac bushes in the west...
Docket number 56 is the Cockburn Club (Ginsberg, Sobieski) versus the Parsons Club (Miller, Linbrun). The meeting will be at 1737 Cambridge Street with E. M. Goldstein 3L as chief justice...
...friend of the Poles, many of whom settled in European Turkey and fought at different times for the Star and Crescent. All these manifestations of friendship to the contrary, perpetual treaties of peace are unadulterated diplomatic chicanery; on Sept. 12, 1683, Vienna was saved from the Turk by John Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-1696); the future may hold an analogous situation...