Word: walesaã
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...Walesa??s cousin, Walter S. Brolewicz, who lives in New Jersey, was in Poland during the correspondence...
...Walesa??s political and historic importance as a Harvard Commencement speaker was compared by some to that of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall in 1947. That year, Marshall famously unveiled the European Recovery Program—the Marshall Plan—to the graduating class...
...very exciting stuff, though we didn’t finally do it,” Glimp said of Walesa??s intended visit. “The issue was whether we should go ahead and do [the speech] anyway in absentia, which we had never done...
...Walesa??s text contained an optimism for freedom, stating that “it is precisely such ideals that unite us, the people of America and Poland.” But with the last word, Fuentes challenged America’s “hypocrisy” in how it treats its “southern neighbors” even while it considered Polish Solidarity a friend...
...aware of the desire to give him this, but I don’t think there was one,” said Brolewicz, who in the past has accepted some of Walesa??s honors for him when he was unable to attend an institution. Many biographies of Walesa, however, do include the anecdote that he was awarded an honorary degree at Harvard’s 1983 Commencement exercises...