Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response was quick and virulent. Warsaw's Zycie Warszawy, in a rare personal attack on the cardinal, charged him with deliberately seeking to provoke an "atmosphere of persecution and martyrdom." Last week Cardinal Wyszynski hit back. He journeyed to the ancient western Polish city of Gniezno on a pilgrimage in honor of Poland's first patron saint. St. Adalbert.* Though city officials barred the procession from its traditional route through the center of town because of "traffic problems." 8.000 hymn-singing worshipers solemnly marched in a cold drizzle to an open-air Mass before the 980-year...
...were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat is waiting on the Minsk-Warsaw night express. Not even the Council of People's Commissars knows about the deal because, as Lenin says: "There are some people who are more Leninist than Lenin himself." Moral of the story: a disarmed antagonist is better than a political martyr...
...settlement, if it happens, will probably involve some of the devices that the U.S. cautiously broached to its allies three weeks ago: 1) a 13-nation authority to control access on the road, rail, canal and air routes to Berlin; 2) a nonaggression pledge between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations; 3) a joint promise to keep atomic weapons out of the hands of nations not now possessing them; 4) joint committees with East and West German members to discuss mutual problems...
...word has even spread to Eastern Europe, where some real live Polish composers named Witold Lutoslawski and Wlodzimierz Kotonski produced chance pieces for last fall's Warsaw festival...
...same time. Soviet criticism of the U.S. shelter program was challenged last week by Communist Poland's leading civil defense expert. Said Colonel Aleksander Cesarski. chief of the Polish army's antiaircraft command, in an interview with a Warsaw military journal: Poland not only has organized nearly 500,000 workers into paramilitary cadres for the protection of "life and property in the event of atomic war," but it has been busily building bomb shelters. Cesarski echoed the Communist line that shelter construction in the U.S. was a capitalist plot engineered by money-hungry bankers...