Word: swierczewski
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...heavy-set man in a neatly pressed blue suit and beret stepped out of War saw's shabby district court at 127 General Swierczewski Street into a welcoming crowd of 300, mostly writers and students. They surrounded the old man and patted him on the back. Two girls embraced him and handed him red roses. Said he: "All the nice people seem to be here." Melchior Wankowicz, 72, one of Poland's most popular novelists, had just been convicted by the not-so-nice people in courtroom No. 16 of "slandering the People's Republic of Poland...
...satellites (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia) thought it so important that representatives from abroad included (among others): Alexander Korneichuk,** Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine; General Vassily Kozlov, World War II guerrilla hero; Lieut. General Alexander Gundorov, head of the All-Slav Congress in Moscow; General Karol Swierczewski, Poland's Vice Minister of National Defense; Tzola Dragoïtcheva, Secretary of Bulgaria's Fatherland Front and No. 1 hatchet woman of Bulgarian Communism. The Yugoslav delegates, who attempted to attend the congress as private citizens, were barred as Communists by U.S. immigration authorities. All other foreign delegates...
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