The Third World War

A fortnight ago I reported the trial in Warsaw of five Polish graduate students for “hostile and harmful activity against Poland,” “crimes against the good name and the interests of Poland and of socialism,” and “work of diversion” as agents of the magazine Kultura and its editor, Jerzy Giedroyc, “financed by Radio Free Europe and CIA” with an assist from “international Zionism.” I explained that the defendants were among the young Poles who, sharing the ideas and hopes of the Czech “Spring,” had spread those ideas in Poland and traveled between Poland and Czechoslovakia to carry the news of what was happening in each nation to the youth of the other.

The trial of the five ended, it goes without saying, with verdicts of guilty and prison sentences. “The verdict confirms,” commented Le Monde (Paris), “that it was in truth M. Giedroyc, editor of Kultura, who was being tried through stand-ins. This is why the Polish authorities sought the maximum possible publicity for the trial throughout the West and especially in France. They want the French government to clamp down on Kuhura’s activities.”

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A fortnight ago I reported the trial in Warsaw of five Polish graduate students for “hostile and harmful activity against Poland,” “crimes against the good name and the interests of Poland and of socialism,” and “work of diversion” as agents of the magazine Kultura and its editor, Jerzy Giedroyc, “financed by Radio Free Europe and CIA” with an assist from “international Zionism.” I explained that the defendants were among the young Poles who, sharing the ideas and hopes of the Czech “Spring,” had spread those ideas in Poland and traveled between Poland and Czechoslovakia to carry the news of what was happening in each nation to the youth of the other.

The trial of the five ended, it goes without saying, with verdicts of guilty and prison sentences. “The verdict confirms,” commented Le Monde (Paris), “that it was in truth M. Giedroyc, editor of Kultura, who was being tried through stand-ins. This is why the Polish authorities sought the maximum possible publicity for the trial throughout the West and especially in France. They want the French government to clamp down on Kuhura’s activities.”