Word: polese
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The Harvest. The Germans had-and muffed-a chance to play upon Slovak nationalism, foster a loyal satellite in Slovakia. Nazi greed and maladroitness soon destroyed any affection the Slovaks might have had for Germany; Slovak troops deserted wholesale rather than fight the Poles and the Russians, and Slovak Partisans...
Secret State. Poland's underground fighters have been toughened and tempered by four bloody, silent years of warfare with the Nazis. Poles are proud that the Nazis have never found a Polish Quisling. A few small-fry Poles have collaborated with the enemy; the nation's true leaders...
Red Hat Y. Red Tie. Republican Lev Saltonstall made his way in a day when the red hat of Boston's Catholic Cardinal O'Connell has had vastly more political power in Massachusetts than the crimson tie of Harvard. Yankees may control the Massachusetts purse strings, but Irish...
The Czechs thought they knew. To survive is an obsession with them; it is also their greatest talent. One of the smaller of Europe's peoples, they never had notions of grandeur, always realized that their role is to react rather than to act: to adjust themselves to conditions...
In the U.S., Jan made a living as an ironworker and works manager in the Crane Co. (as a movie pianist on the side). "The only thing I know about diplomacy," says Minister Masaryk, "I learned in the iron foundry of the Crane Co. There were Slovaks, Swedes, Poles, Norwegians...