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Free Poles? Father Orlemanski went to a Moscow radio studio. In Polish, he addressed the Poles in Poland: "Dear people of my fatherland. . . . We are Slavs, and allied Poland and Russia will be the largest force in the east. This union will bring great good both to Poland and Russia...
One of Mark Gayn's earliest memories is of a file of Chinese soldiers marching past his father's house in Manchuria. Civilians marching with them carried long poles from which swung a row of decapitated heads. Gayn also remembers (when he was seven) huddling with his mother...
A Tap on the Shoulder. Overnight, the priest became an international figure. He was feted, shown the sights, received by Soviet dignitaries. A special train was reserved to take him to the front, to visit the Kosciuszko Division of Red Army Poles.
Apostle or Traitor? The press made a great mystery of Father Orlemanski's trip, wasted reams on speculation about how he got to Moscow and why he was there. He himself supplied one answer: he expected to hurry back to the U.S., explain Russia's side in the...
A bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur. They carried long durra stalks, symbolizing spears. As they approached the sacred river, they chanted age-old incantations, their meanings lost in history. At Nile-edge they...