Word: stettin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the waterfront of Poland's rubble-strewn Szczecin (formerly Stettin) towering cranes on six miles of rebuilt docks load and unload freight at the annual rate of 4,000,000 tons. In Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) bright new arc lights along the main streets have ended years of dim nights in the city's bomb-shattered center. After years of neglect, Poland's "western territories," the lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers taken from Germany after the war, are slowly emerging from postwar desolation...
...Stettin is an overcrowded, underemployed port on the Baltic Sea whose lusty waterfront population takes its politics with violence and vodka. Last week a cou ple of cops who tried to arrest a slaphappy vodka drinker touched off a political riot that had Wladyslaw Gomulka's new government in a nervous dither...
...group of young men who tried to separate the cops from the drunk were quickly joined by habitues of the Pod Jeleniem and Pod Gryfem bars and the Centralna and Magnolia cafes. Soon the Aleja Wojska Polskiego was crowded with 2,000 grim, destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were...
...Stettin outbreak was the most se rious of a series of anti-Soviet incidents that have rocked Poland in recent weeks...
...seven, Sophia Augusta Frederica, the penniless daughter of a petty German princeling, found "this idea of a crown . . . running in my head then like a tune, and [it] has been running . . . ever since." The music never stopped. Little Sophia of Stettin became Catherine the Great of Russia, one of the most brilliant women ever to mount a throne. Her Memoirs, published for the first time in an unexpurgated English-language edition, take Catherine only to the threshold of the throne. Nonetheless, her chronicle tells in candid detail how uneasy sleeps the head that even waits for a crown...