Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snarled the daily Zycie Warszawy: "Who in Poland empowered the Polish bishops to repent and forgive? On whose behalf have they done it? On behalf of the millions murdered in Auschwitz and Maidanek?" Other government papers chimed in, while "students" and "workers" rallied in Lodz, Szczecin and Warsaw to accuse the prelates of meddling in foreign affairs and sabotaging the national interest...
...Poland is 96.5% Catholic, and Cardinal Wyszynski was greeted on his return from Rome by a rapturous crowd of 1,000 at Warsaw's Gdansk Station. Another 10,000 jammed St. John's Cathedral to hear him proclaim: "We served our homeland well in Rome. Anything else you hear you can put down as a fairy tale. Treat it as the leaves dropping from the trees." He was besieged afterwards with bouquets and hymns...
...Warsaw press never mentioned the new U.S. ambassador's time of arrival, and only a bundled-up group of U.S. embassy staffers and Poland's deputy protocol officer waited amid piles of dirty snow on the station platform. But by the time John A. Gronouski, 46, stepped from the Chopin Express in Warsaw last week, more than 1,000 Poles in the station had figured out who was among them...
Service in Warsaw carries an added responsibility. For the past ten years the U.S. ambassador there has met for no less than 127 conferences with his Red Chinese counterpart. Gronouski's predecessor, John Cabot (who moved on as deputy commandant of the National War College in Washington), met 20 times with the Chinese, delivering fruitless warnings to Peking to stay out of India and Viet Nam. Now it is the former Postmaster General's Sisyphean job to deliver the messages...
...business with the Communists. Their credentials are impeccably blue chip-Krupp, Volvo, Renault, Imperial Chemical Industries. By day, they hustle off to talk trade with ministers, plant managers and bureaucrats. By night, they cluster in the crowded bars and dining rooms of the hotels frequented mostly by foreigners: Warsaw's Bristol, Prague's Alcron, Bucharest's Athénée Palace. More than at any other time in the postwar era, Eastern Europe is a prime hunting ground for businessmen...