Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real extent of Rumania's break with Russia will become evident this week, when the Rumanians have to decide whether or not to attend a meeting of Warsaw Pact countries in Sofia. Even if the Rumanians finally decide to go, Ceausescu's decision to pull out of last week's meeting left the Kremlin in a quandary. Though it now has no serious opposition to its plans for a top-level meeting, it also has less to gain than ever if it occurs. Once intent on isolating Maoism at a summit meeting, Soviet Marxists now stand...
Though Dziady, written by Poet Adam Mickiewicz in 1832, has long been a staple of study in nearly every Polish high school, its appearance on the Warsaw stage a few weeks ago caused an uproar. When audiences laughed too loudly at the anti-Russian lines, the government's censors closed down the whole production. In recent weeks they have also closed two other plays and kept from circulation the most promising Polish movie of the year, a surrealistic comedy on politics called Hands Up. Also kept from circulation was Critic Janusz Szpotanski, 34, author of a musical satire...
Aging & Suspicious. What makes Poland's intellectuals so angry is that it was in Poland, after the enlightened, anti-Stalinist regime of Gomulka took power in 1956, that the trend toward intellectual freedom in Eastern Europe really began. In the days following the popular uprising that installed Gomulka, Warsaw's stage bloomed with avant-garde theater-the existentialism of Sartre, the absurdism of Beckett and a home-grown brand of vicious gallows humor. Recently, however, while an aging and suspicious government tolerates less free discussion at home, the Poles have watched in frustration while non conformity flourishes among...
...government's tight control of intellectual life, which is also mainly responsible for a decline in film production and literary output, has already reduced the number of party members in the 600-person Warsaw branch of the Writers' Union to 10%, and a current revival of official anti-Semitism will probably reduce it even further. Nor are the intellectuals alone in their restlessness; among Poland's 32 million citizens, too, there is a growing boredom, if not dissatisfaction, with the regime. With only 1,860,000 members, Poland's Communist Party is now proportionately...
Despite the horror, Holocaust documents a hitherto unheralded record of resistance, even beyond the suicidal stand in the Warsaw ghetto and the sporadic concentration-camp rebellions. Jews made up 20% of the French Resistance and 30% of a Free Polish Army (in which officers and men often rivaled the Germans in their savage anti-Semitism). All through Nazi-occupied territory, Jews operated secret schools and underground newspapers. Young Boy Scouts and volunteer paratroopers from Palestine carried out rescue missions that saved thousands. Bands of Jewish fighters roamed the dense forests of Russia and Poland, though their mortality rate often reached...