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POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • AUGUST 2014 www.polamjournal.com 1 AUGUST 2014 • VOL. 103, NO. 8 $2.00 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK NEW BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY ESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com MSGR. KOPACZ LEADS JOURNAL APPEAL FOR SEMINARIANS DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE PAGE 6 THE TIES THAT DIVIDE • NEW DESIGNATION SOUGHT FOR LT. COL. URBAN GRAVESITE • JOHN BALIK – STILL A HERO THAD GROMADA ON POLONIA AND ITS HISTORY • CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION ANNOUNCED • PSHF CLASS OF 2014 FDA ALLOWS BURZYNSKI TO CONTINUE • A PALM TREE GROWS IN WARSAW • WE TOLD YOU HE WAS POLISH NEWSMARK Mazowsze Cancels Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski to Head Springfield Diocese CONFIDENCE GIVEN. Polish Prime Minister Donald North American Tour Tusk won a vote of confi dence in parliament, facing down, SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — for now at least, opponents who say he should quit over Polish Americans are a major leaked conversations between senior offi cials that embar- ethnic group in Western Massa- rassed the government. chusetts, with strong settlement In a late-night vote that was called on Tusk’s own ini- patterns stretching from Adams tiative, 237 members of parliament voted to express con- – the most Polish municipality fi dence in the government, over the 231 votes that Tusk in Massachusetts – to Deerfi eld, needed to stay in power. Hatfi eld, Hadley, Chicopee and Proposing the vote of confi dence appeared to be a tactic beyond. by Tusk to demonstrate that despite the leaked recordings With that in mind, Polish na- his coalition was solid, and reminding the opposition they tionals and Polish Americans do not have enough votes to unseat his government. alike are bound to be pleased with the selection of Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski to suc- FOREIGN POLISH EXPERT DEVALUES ALLIANCE. NEW YORK — The Mazowsze North American ceed retiring Bishop Timothy A. Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a for- tour scheduled for November/December 2014 under the BISHOP ROZANSKI McDonnell as leader of the Ro- mer special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, says it is auspices of 2Luck Concepts has been canceled. man Catholic Diocese of Spring- role, both in devotion to their not in the United States’ best interest to be in an alliance The 65th anniversary tour production was to include fi eld – a diocese in which Poles faith and their contribution to the with Poland. high-tech projections and several new additions and re- have long played an important See “Rozanski,” page 3 In a response to a letter by Polish ambassador Ryszard gional suites were slated to join the classic standards on Schnepf, who defended the two nation’s long-standing re- the program. lationship — from the Revolutionary War to the war in Af- “The tour was to be the same length as in 2007 and ghanistan — Bandow said “Friendship and mutual trust are 2010 (four weeks), but as previous key cities such as Poland Takes Heat for CIA Prison not the same as strategic interest. Poland never has been Buffalo, Cleveland, Utica, Pittsburgh, Schenectady, STRASBOURG, France military. vital for U.S. security, even during the Cold War.” Washington, Baltimore, Boston and St. Paul could not (VOA News) — Europe’s top They claim they were cap- He said Russia is a far-lesser threat to America, interest- be secured. When replacement cities within the time- human rights court has found tured and then fl own to a secret ed in border security and respect, rather than a hegemonic frame and route could not be acquired, it became evi- Poland violated the rights of two jail run by the CIA in a Polish competitor, dedicated to global domination. Thus, says dent that the tour would have to be planned for another terrorism suspects by allowing forest, where they were tortured Bandow, Poland has no military relevance for Washington. time,” said John Luckacovic director of 2Luck Con- the U.S. Central Intelligence and mistreated. “America should maintain alliances only when doing cepts. Agency to secretly imprison The court blamed Poland for so makes Americans safer. Backing Poland against Russia Repeat engagements in major markets came through, them in the country more than a facilitating the process. It or- does not,” he said. “Instead, doing so multiplies risks fac- but almost every local presenter offered signifi cantly decade ago. dered Warsaw to pay fi nes to the ing the United States without providing any countervailing less than the previous tours, and there were problems The European Court of Hu- two men. advantages.” with air transportation assistance. man Rights says Poland violated The ruling is the fi rst time a With 100 people in the company to transport and ac- the European Convention on court has acknowledged sus- DESTROYER MAKES THIRD VISIT. The U.S.S. Oscar commodate, it did not make logistical or fi nancial sense. Human Rights by allowing ter- pects were held and tortured Austin, a guided missile destroyer, docked at Poland’s Unprecedented concessions were being considered in- rorism suspects Abd al-Rahim at so-called CIA black sites — Gdynia Naval port, part of a tour of American allies. This cluding the elimination of the orchestra or the choir, and al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah to under a program launched by marks the destroyer’s third visit to Poland and is at present cutting down the number of dancers. As Mazowsze is be secretly imprisoned on its ter- Washington following the Sep- part of the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Strike Group Ten. the “The State Song and Dance Ensemble of Poland,” it ritory between 2002 and 2003. tember 2011 terrorist attacks. Prior to its arrival in Gdynia, the ship visited Tallinn, did not seem feasible to continue in this line of thinking. The two are now inmates at the The United States has acknowl- Estonia, and Karlskrona, Sweden, where it participated in The company is determined to return to North Amer- Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, deten- edged the program existed, but the 42nd annual Baltic Operations Exercise. The annual ica in the near future. tion camp operated by the U.S. See “Ruling ...,” page 3 military exhibit in the Baltic Sea and the regions surround- ing it has been sponsored by the commander of the United States Naval Forces Europe since 1971. Orchard Lake Schools Icon The destroyer’s captain, Brian Diebold, has Polish roots. His great grandfather Franciszek Zacharzewski was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1909. Rev. Msgr. Stanley E. Milewski Dead at 84 ORCHARD LAKE, Mich. Alumni Association national fi liations with the Catholic — On Sunday, July 6, 2014, treasurer (1958–1977); ath- Conference of Ethnic and Poland and World War I the Orchard Lake Schools letic director (1973–1977); Neighborhood Affairs, Cath- In this month’s edition of the Polish American Journal, we community suffered the loss Perpetual and Extraordinary olic League for Religious begin a sixteen part series entitled Poland and World War I of their brother and fellow Ambassador (1974–2014); Assistance to Poland, Polish (See page 9). It was a hundred years ago that Europe and the priest, Monsignor Stanley E. Orchard Lake Schools First Roman Catholic Union of world became embroiled in the most deadly war in history up Milewski, P.A., who passed Chancellor (1977-2000); America (PRCUA), Friends to that time. The Polish people and Polish Americans became on from this life at the age of Board of Regents (ex-offi cio of Polish Art, Knights of fully involved in that brutal confl ict. Though Poland did not 84. member, 1977–2000); found- Columbus, Knights of Dab- exist as a separate country at the time, most of the biggest Monsignor Milewski was er, Pope John Paul II Center rowski, and Polish American battles of the war’s Eastern Front were fought on Polish soil born on November 30, 1929 (1978); and Chancellor’s Priests Association (PAPA), and Poles were deeply affected, both as civilians and soldiers. in Detroit, Michigan, to Stan- Senate (1980–2014). to name a few. The series will cover the origins of the war, major battles ley and Jadwiga (Opanows- In addition, Milewski fur- Monsignor Milewski fought for Polish cities, treatment of Polish civilians, Polish ki). He attended St. Mary’s thered his studies at SS. Cyril is survived by his brother soldiers in the fi ght, efforts to win American support for Pol- Preparatory, Orchard Lake Portrait of Monsignor & Methodius Seminary, Or- priests of the Presbyterate of ish war relief and independence, Haller’s Army, and the Poles’ (1943–47); St. Mary’s Col- Milewski by Vianna Szabo, chard Lake, by graduating the Archdiocese of Detroit struggle and ultimate success in achieving a free and lege, Orchard Lake (B.A., from the Orchard Lake with a Master of Divinity and his Orchard Lake Schools independent Poland. 1947–51); and St. John’s Schools Collection. degree in 1975. He was also family whom often fondly re- Provincial Seminary, Plym- Lake Schools as procura- granted by Alliance College, ferred to him as “Monsignor outh (1951–55) before being tor–treasurer (1957–1977); Cambridge Springs, Pennsyl- Millie.” ordained a priest by Cardinal teacher (1957–1968); vania an Honorary Doctorate v v v Edward Mooney for the Arch- Founder’s Day committee/ of Literature in 1978 and an He laid in repose at the diocese of Detroit on June 4, chair (1957–2005); treasurer, Honorary Doctorate of The- Shrine Chapel of Our Lady 1955 and serving as associate Dabrowski Foundation; vice ology from Madonna Univer- of Orchard Lake until the pastor of St. Francis D’Assisi rector (1968–1977); Ladies sity, Livonia in 2003.