In 1947, after seven years of service in the British Royal Air Force, Paul Bernard Grieger decided to visit his parents in Poland for Christmas. It turned out to be a long visit. Two weeks ago Grieger slipped into West Berlin with a hair-raising story of his escape, and a grim account of life in the new Poland.
He had found his homeland in effect a Russian colony. When Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky was proclaimed the new commander of the Polish army (TIME, Nov. 21), Poles at first could not believe the news, thought it a joke. Later, when Rokossovsky...
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