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They also noted confidently that Walesa suggested in his letter that he might send a speech to read in his absence, in case he could not appear in person (As of last week, no such speech had arrived, although Aloian says he has been expecting one since the first week of May--based on word from Walesa via intermediaries...
...same, says Aloian, to be certain Harvard had not misread Walesa's words, he passed along a copy of Beranczak's translation of the union chief's reply to Adam Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and head of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Ulam pronounced it accurate--"It seemed fairly faithful to me," he remembers...
...addition, Aloian contacted one of the journalist envoys, who had planned to visit Gdansk later in the month, and asked him to clarify matters with Walesa...
Meanwhile, Walesa's involvement with the underground activities of Solidarity was growing increasingly intense. The day after Harvard's announcement, he met with a group of Solidarity leaders, the first such gathering since his release from internment in November. The meeting was not a secret one: Solidarity leaders publicized it thoroughly the following week...
...first months of liberty, Walesa had kept a fairly low profile, but the April meeting and its subsequent wide publicity appeared to signal a new defiance on the labor chief's part. "It seems to indicated that Walesa is ready and willing to take a more active part in the resistance," observed Tadeusz Szafar, a Polish visiting scholar at the Russian Research Center. "I don't know what it achieves for him, but it's certainly not permission to go to Harvard...