POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • AUGUST 2010 www.polamjournal.com 1 AUGUST 2010 • VOL. 99, NO. 8 $2.00 PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE POLISH AMERICAN OFFICES AND ADDITIONAL ENTRY JOURNALESTABLISHED 1911 www.polamjournal.com THE STORY OF WOJTEK THE SOLDIER BEAR DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN CULTURE PAGE 14 CATHOLIC LEAGUE CONTINUES TO AID CHURCH IN POLAND • DO DEMOCRATS STILL HAVE A STRONGHOLD ON POLONIA? POLISH MUSEUM HONORS THE PRZYBYLO FAMILY • A POLKAS-ONLY DOWNLOADING SITE • BLACK STORKS? SPORTS: POLAND’S LOSS IS GERMANY’S GAIN • A CHAMPION FOR POLAND’S FREEDOM • SUMMER FESTIVAL RECIPES U.S. Polonia ever faithful to Law and Justice Russians NEWSMARK Participate in INVITE EXTENDED. President Barack Obama has in- Komorowski is Poland’s New President vited Poland’s new president to visit him in Washington. by Robert Strybel newed expectation. Washington Obama telephoned his congratulations to Bronislaw WARSAW— Ultimately, the final Katyn Komorowski after he won an election held three months Bronisław Ko- count showed that after President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash. morowski, the can- Komorowski, 58, had Conference According to the White House, Obama told Ko- didate of the ruling indeed won the snap morowski that the “resilience and resolve” the Polish pro-business Civic election, called after Admit to people demonstrated after the tragedy remains an in- Platform (Platforma the death in an April Stonewalling by spiration to the world. Obama also thanked Poland for Obywatelska = PO) air crash of Presi- Higher-Ups its contribution to the U.S. military campaign in Afghani- party narrowly won dent Lech Kaczyński, stan and offered condolences for Poland’s sacrifices on Poland’s presiden- Jarosław’s identical by Richard Poremski the battlefield there. tial runoff, defeat- twin, 61. WASHINGTON, D.C. — ing the head of the “I must begin The 70th Anniversary Obser- POLAND, US SIGN MISSLE SHIELD DEAL. Poland and conservative Law with what good man- vance of the Katyn Massacre the United States signed an agreement for a key missile and Justice (Prawo ners require: I con- was held here at the Library base during a visit to Poland by U.S. Secretary of State i Sprawiedliwość gratulate Bronisław of Congress on May 5, 2010. Hillary Clinton. She stressed the controversial deal “is not = PiS) Jarosław K o m o r o w s k i , ” The group of 23 speakers and directed at Russia.” Kaczyński. But the Kaczyński said at panelists was comprised of Clinton oversaw the signing of the missile base agree- second round of the this Warsaw head- present/past U.S. and foreign ment as part of a revamped version of the controversial presidential election, quarters packed with ambassadors, members of missile defense shield plan. held two weeks after PiS activists and sup- the U.S. Congress, a Polish The amendment enables the establishment of a per- no candidate managed porters. “To score a Sejm senator, and a grouping manent U.S. missile base on Polish soil. The controversial to win 50 percent of victory one should of international professors, plan has been heavily criticized by Russia, with Moscow the vote in the first recall the maxim of historians, authors and other concerned that the policy is aimed at its military arsenal. round, turned out to (prewar leader) Józef luminaries. In all, the assem- “This is a purely defensive system,” Clinton told report- be a true cliff-hanger Piłsudski: top win blage of conferees covered ers. “It is not directed at Russia. It does not threaten Rus- to the very end and and rest on one’s lau- every conceivable aspect of sia.” beyond. Poland’s new President Bronisław Komorowski, rels is a defeat; to be the Katyn Massacre. It was a Poland and the United States say the shield is de- But late into the former Parliamentary Speaker. defeated and not suc- landmark event — and schol- signed to ward off the threat of missile attacks aimed at night, the outcome cumb is a victory.” arly investigation — not to be Poland and the rest of Europe, especially the possibility suddenly appeared to once again hang in the Kaczyński added that Poland had changed rivaled in recent Katyn his- of a ballistic missile strike stemming from Iran. balance as fresh incoming results at one stage and that huge accumulated power must be tory. showed Kaczyński leading by a fraction of a tapped if his party is to win forthcoming lo- And in the Russell Sen- SOLIDARITY PRIEST DEAD. percentage point. Hours after Komorowski had cal elections and next years parliamentary ate Office Building Rotunda, Prelate Henryk Jankowski, the delivered his victory speech and Kaczyński challenge. Despite his defeat, the surprisingly coordinated with the con- “Solidarity” movement priest and had conceded defeat, both candidates’ cam- close outcome marked a serious comeback ference, Poland’s Council St. Bridget parish priest, died July paign headquarters became centers of re- See “Komorowski,” page 4 to Preserve the Memory of 18 at age 74. Combat and Martyrdom un- Jankowski was born in Staro- Cantores Minores Noted Szopka Educator veiled its exhibit entitled gard Gdański. After the events “Katyn: Massacre, Politics, of December 1970, he became Returns to America Hosts Holiday Tour Morality.” It consisted of 25 the parish priest for St. Bridget NEW YORK — To singing the Ordinary large vertical panels contain- Church in Gdansk. In few years celebrate its 20th an- of the Mass include ing newly discovered and/or time, with a help from artists, he niversary, the Warsaw the following: Kyrie just released photographs and managed to rebuild the chuch, Archdiocesan Cathedral from Gregorian Mass archival material. The exhibit which had been totally ruined since 1945. Choir of Men and Boys, IV Cunctipotens Geni- will also be toured to various In 1980 Jankowski supported shipyard workers strik- better known as Can- tor Deus; Gloria from U.S. cities. ing under Walesa’s leadership in Gdańsk. Later on, he be- tores Minores, returns Messe brève (en ut ma- Everyone anticipated the came a “Solidarity” chaplain. During the Martial Law, St. to the United States of jeur) no 7 by Charles remarks of the Russian par- Bridget Church was a meeting place for the opposition. America for the fifth Gounod (1818-1893); ticipants, whose country Jankowski was also supporting union members’ families time under the direction Credo from Missa “Ad- (then-USSR) perpetrated the and St. Bridget’s churchyard became a place of many ral- of founder and current este fideles” by Vittorio Katyn Forest Massacre of lies and manifestations. conductor, Joseph A. Giannini (1903-1966); over 21,000 Polish military “Without his attitude, our fight would not have ended Herter. Previous choir Sanctus from Messe officers, officials and intelli- in success,” Walesa told Polsat News. tours have taken place à trois voix by César gentsia in 1940 during World After 1989 Jankowski was perceived as a controversial in 1994, 1996, 1998 Franck (1822-1890); War II. figure. He was often making anti-Semitic and anti-Euro- and 2001. This year’s and Agnus Dei from Prof. Natalia Lebedeva, pean remarks in his statements. tour, however, is unique Missa di Gloria (1880) Russian Academy of Scienc- Father Jankowski received many decorations and in that it will be their by Giacomo Puccini es - Institute of World History honors. He was a honorary citizen of Gdańsk. (news.pl). first American concert (1858-1924) spoke during the morning tour taking the choir Their Polish reper- session. She is the foremost STALIN BUST REMOVED IN HOMETOWN, BUT from coast to coast. The toire includes the entire MOTAK and one his creations. Russian historian of Katyn, STILL STANDS IN UNITED STATES. The inclusion of a and a co-editor of “Katyn: month-long tour began gamut of musical styles PITTSBURGH — Polish American large Stalin bust in the National D-Day Memorial in Bed- on the west coast in and periods, starting A Crime Without Punish- Artist David Motak, a widely-acclaimed ford, Virg. is no longer a local matter — “it has become a Lake Arrowhead, Cali- with the Medieval hymn ment” (Yale University Press, national and even an international embarrassment,,” said fornia on July 23 and Bogurodzica, and ex- expert on the szopka or traditional 2008). Lebedeva lectured Dr. Lee Edwards, chair of the Victims of Communism Me- ends on the east coast in tending onward through Christmas crèche, is hosting the sixth on the contents of the book morial Foundation. New York City with an the Baroque with Grze- annual Holiday Tour to Poland, Nov. and detailed the Soviet kill- Recently, the town of Gori, Georgia, Stalin’s birthplace, afternoon performance gorz G. Gorczycki, the 26-Dec. 7. ings, their indignant denial removed a bronze statue of the Soviet dictator from its at St. Patrick’s Cathe- Romantic period with Motak teaches the art of szopka mak- and elaborate cover-up, their town square. dral on Aug. 23. Frederic Chopin and his ing at workshops around the United eventual admission of the Lee said more than 2,000 people from all 50 states and The boys and men pupil Karol Mikuli as States and leads this annual tour to at- truth, and the state of Katyn- over 40 nations have signed the petition calling for the of Cantores Minores well as Stanisław Moni- tend the yearly Szopka Competition in aggravated Soviet/Russian- removal of the Stalin bust at the D-Day Memorial, and have a wide repertoire uszko, the Post-Roman- Krakow, one of Europe’s most distinc- Polish relations to the present the number grows with each passing day. of mostly sacred mu- tic period with Ignacy tive and beautiful Christmas customs.