The Third World War Cold War Opportunity

In its July 26 issue NR published a report by Eugene Lyons (“Starvation Corner”) on the difficult time that local anti-Communist enterprises have, all over the world, in trying to get financial backing. He cited a variety of instances that he had found during a recent trip to the Far East. From my own observations I could add dozens of entries to his list. Here is one summary record.

At the end of the war, a small group of extremely able Poles—graduates of the Polish fighting against both Nazis and Russians in 1939, of Russian concent ration camps in 1940-41 and of General Anders’ Italian campaigns of 1943-45—decided that they could best continue fighting for their country’s freedom in exile. They set up headquarters in a suburb of Paris. As focus of their enterprise, they undertook publication of a monthly magazine, giving it the name (Kultura) of the magazine that one of their number—Jerzy Giedroyc—had edited in prewar Poland. Kultura (in issues up to 150 or more pages) has continued to appear ever since. It soon became the foremost Polish magazine in the world—outside or inside Poland.

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In its July 26 issue NR published a report by Eugene Lyons (“Starvation Corner”) on the difficult time that local anti-Communist enterprises have, all over the world, in trying to get financial backing. He cited a variety of instances that he had found during a recent trip to the Far East. From my own observations I could add dozens of entries to his list. Here is one summary record.

At the end of the war, a small group of extremely able Poles—graduates of the Polish fighting against both Nazis and Russians in 1939, of Russian concent ration camps in 1940-41 and of General Anders’ Italian campaigns of 1943-45—decided that they could best continue fighting for their country’s freedom in exile. They set up headquarters in a suburb of Paris. As focus of their enterprise, they undertook publication of a monthly magazine, giving it the name (Kultura) of the magazine that one of their number—Jerzy Giedroyc—had edited in prewar Poland. Kultura (in issues up to 150 or more pages) has continued to appear ever since. It soon became the foremost Polish magazine in the world—outside or inside Poland.