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Document No. 314978ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 MAR 13 All: 07
DATE:
3/13/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 3/13/92 1:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
SUBJECT:
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - - 3/16/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE N/V
360
SCOWCROFT the
MOORE
5732
DARMAN N/C
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
ROGICH
CALIO
ROLLINS
DEMAREST
SMITH
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
GRAY 5026 Ruddemer
FINDLAY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty,
Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 1:00 p.m., TODAY, FRIDAY,
MARCH 13, with a copy to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Gershowitz)
March 13, 1992
Draft Two
82 MAR 13 A9: 46
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked -- and prayed
-- to attain.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you." The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
2
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. They called religion
the "opium of the people" and said they would wipe it out.
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
citizen does not demand his rights," Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave. " The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
3
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic government.
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
from organized labor offered indispensable help. Through it all,
we looked to Heaven for help -- and help was granted.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people.
Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote:
"
wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pope John Paul II -- have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have -- had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those countries still tormented by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability -- nations like Croatia and Serbia and
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -- for
instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
4
We've helped change the world -- and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
#
#
#
1944
Document No. 314978ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
92 MAR 13 P7:13 P7: 13
DATE:
3/13/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 3/13/92 1:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
SUBJECT:
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - 3/16/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
ROGICH
CALIO
ROLLINS
DEMAREST
SMITH
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
GRAY
FINDLAY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty,
Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 1:00 p.m., TODAY, FRIDAY,
MARCH 13, with a copy to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
March 13, 1992
NSC concurs with changes indicated.
from Brent Scowcroft
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Gershowitz)
March 13, 1992
Draft Two
32 MAR 13 A 9 : 46
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked -- and prayed
-- to attain.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you.' The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
(Not quite true
in Poland.)
2
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. They called religion
the "opium of the people" and said they would wipe it out.]
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
citizen does not demand his rights," Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave. " The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
Even in the darhest days,
the united states remained
resolute in support of Poland's
3 right to be free.
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
the substantial assistance we
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
today, new democratic government.
helping Poland build consolidate stable its Ademocracy and a prospering economy.
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
from organized labor offered indispensable help. Through it all,
a
we looked to Heaven for help -- and help was granted.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people.
Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote:
wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pope John Paul II -- have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have -- had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
the those enormous countries still work tormented still to be done in transforming the
by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability -- nations like Croatia and Serbia and
old totalitasion systems into prospering Hee market
democracies.
still
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -t for
instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam
Althou
Our work is far
from over. Americas
leadership in defense of
freedom must continue
just as we the mus world, t continue 4 changing
our
redually of
We ve helped change the world and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
#
#
#
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DATE:
3/13/92
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: TODAY, 3/13/92 1:00 pm
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
SUBJECT:
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - 3/16/92
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROF
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
ROGICH
CALIO
ROLLINS
DEMAREST
SMITH
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
GRAY
FINDLAY
HOLIDAY
KAUFMAN
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty,
Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 1:00 p.m., TODAY, FRIDAY,
MARCH 13, with a copy to this office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
NSC concurs with changes indicated.
Brent Scowcroft
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
(Duggan/Gershowitz)
March 13, 1992
Draft Two
12 MAR 13 A 9 : 46
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked -- and prayed
-- to attain.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you." The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
(Not guiland.) tre
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The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. called religion
the "opium of the people" and said they would wipe it out]
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
citizen does not demand his rights, Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave." The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
Even in the darhest days,
the united states remained
resolute in support of Poland's
3 right to be free.
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
the substantial assistance we
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic
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Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
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offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
#
#
#
Document No. 314978ss
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
03/13/92
----
DATE:
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: POLISH-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
SUBJECT:
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- 3/16/92
(03/13 - draft five)
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
HORNER
SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
>
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
PORTER
>
BRADY
BROMLEY
ROGICH
CALIO
ROLLINS
DEMAREST
SMITH
YEUTTER
FITZWATER
FINDLAY
GRAY
KAUFMAN
HOLIDAY
MCGROARTY
REMARKS:
The attached has been forwarded to the President.
RESPONSE:
PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
Ext. 2702
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MARCH 13 МАБЬЗ P6: 19
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
DAVID DEMAREST
4
FROM:
JOSEPH P. DUGGAN go
SUBJECT:
PROPOSED REMARKS TO THE POLISH-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
I. SUMMARY
On Monday, March 16 at 4:05 p.m. you will deliver
remarks to an audience of 200 members of the Polish-American
community at the headquarters of the Polish National Alliance in
Chicago, Illinois.
II. DISCUSSION
Your remarks (approximately 6 minutes / cards)
celebrate the collapse of Communism and praise Poles and Polish-
Americans for their crucial role in that triumph.
(Duggan/Gershowitz)
March 13, 1992
Draft Five
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Thank you for that Chicago welcome. Somebody suggested this
visit has something to do with the Illinois primary election. 11
That's true -- I'm working to win that election. But if anyone
thinks we have political headaches here -- they're nothing
compared with what Lech Walesa has to go through in Poland. We
have only two major parties. At last count, I think Lech had to
wrangle with 18 different political parties! 11
Whenever I visit here, I remember my trip in 1988 to another
center of Polish-American activity in Chicago -- St. Hyacinth's
Church. I had the privilege to join with many of you in prayers
for peace and freedom, and to lay a wreath at the memorial for
the martyr of Solidarity, Father Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years.
Since 1988, our world has been transformed -- and that change
began in Poland. 11 Poland overthrew the cruel tyranny that
Stalin imposed after Yalta. 11 Now, imperial communism is dead -
- and the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. III The threat of
nuclear war has diminished dramatically. These are blessings
that millions of us have worked -- and prayed -- to attain. 11
For decades we faced mortal danger. The communists fought
to dominate the world. The Soviet Union threatened the very
existence of free Europe and the United States with its massive
2
armies and nuclear arsenals. The communists persecuted believers
and demolished houses of worship. They imprisoned Cardinal
Wyszynski and murdered Father Popieluszko.
But all the while, believers kept on believing: Stubborn
believers -- who suffered every sort of torment in the prisons
and labor camps. Patient believers -- who thought they'd never
live to see the answer to their prayers. Simple believers -- who
grasped little of geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they
held the power to change the world in their folded hands.
Inspired by brave leaders like Lech Walesa and Pope John
Paul, good people on both sides of the Iron Curtain worked as
though everything depended on themselves -- and they prayed as
though everything depended on God. 11
Even in the darkest days, we stood steadfast for Poland's
right to be free. We kept our alliances strong. We gave
humanitarian aid to Solidarity when it was needed the most.
Today we continue to give substantial assistance, helping Poland
build a stable democracy and a prospering economy. Just as
important has been the voluntary help from the Church, from
organized labor, and from the Polish-American community.
History will honor the role of the Polonia -- the worldwide
Polish community -- for giving birth to a new age of freedom.
And to symbolize this, this year we will fulfill the dying wish
of Ignacy Paderewski and send his remains for burial in the
sacred soil of a free Poland.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
3
those who still have not won full freedom. I think especially of
the brave people of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, and Macedonia. 11
Our leadership for freedom must continue. You know that: No
one knows better than Polish-Americans the rewards of staying
strong and engaged in the world. No one knows better than you
the tragic harm that comes from weakness and isolationism. We'll
keep working together. We'll secure the peace and win new
prosperity -- for Poland and all the Free World.
We must continue changing the world -- and we must redouble
our efforts to change America for the better. To strengthen our
freedoms we need more power for families and parents -- and
limits on big government.
Let me close with a fable about liberal social planners that
reminds me of Lech Walesa's down-to-earth humor. It's a story
Russians used to tell during the last days of Communism:
A farmer's chickens were dying. So for help he went to the
communist party hack who was the local agriculture commissar.
The commissar said, "Give them aspirin." And over the next few
days, 50 chickens died. The commissar then said, "give them
penicillin." And in a few days, a hundred more chickens died.
So the commissar advised castor oil.
After the castor oil therapy, the farmer went to the
commissar and announced that all the remaining chickens had died.
"What a pity! What a pity!" the commissar said. "I had so
many other ideas I wanted to try!"
Well let me tell you: As long as I'm President, American
4
families will not be guinea pigs for social planners. 11 We will
keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility first -- and we'll
make this country better. This country was built on family,
faith and freedom -- and we must renew those sources of our
strength. As Barbara and I count our many blessings, we know we
can count on Polish-Americans to move our country forward to new
glories. Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States
of America -- lands of the free and homes of the brave.
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MEMORANDUM FOR DAN MCGROARTY
FROM:
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ASSOCIATE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT:
Presidential Remarks: Polish American Community,
Chicago, Illinois
Pursuant to Phil Brady's request, Counsel's Office has reviewed
the above-referenced matter and has no objection to the proposed
Presidential Remarks.
CC: Phillip D. Brady
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March 13, 1992
Draft Four
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Thank you for that Chicago welcome. Somebody suggested this
visit has something to do with the Illinois primary election. 11
That's true -- I'm working to win that election. But if anyone
thinks we have political headaches here -- they're nothing
compared with what Lech Walesa has to go through in Poland. We
have only two major parties. At last count, I think Lech had to
wrangle with 18 different political parties! 11
Whenever I visit here, I remember my trip in 1988 to another
center of Polish-American activity in Chicago -- St. Hyacinth's
Church. I had the privilege to join with many of you in prayers
for peace and freedom, and to lay a wreath at the memorial for
the martyr of Solidarity, Father Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years.
Since 1988, our world has been transformed -- and that change
began in Poland. 11 Poland overthrew the cruel tyranny that
Stalin had imposed after Yalta. 11 Now, imperial communism is
dead -- and the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. III The threat
of nuclear war has diminished dramatically. These are blessings
that millions of us have worked -- and prayed -- to attain. 11
For decades we faced mortal danger. The communists fought
to dominate the world. The Soviet Union threatened the very
existence of free Europe and the United States with its massive
2
armies and nuclear arsenals. The communists persecuted believers
and demolished houses of worship. They imprisoned Cardinal
Wyszynski and murdered Father Popieluszko.
But all the while believers kept on believing: Stubborn
believers -- who suffered every sort of torment in the prisons
and labor camps. Patient believers -- who thought they'd never
live to see the answer to their prayers. Simple believers -- who
grasped little of geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they
held the power to change the world in their folded hands.
Atheistic communism's empire fell because brave men like
Cardinal Wyszynski and Father Popieluszko -- like Lech Walesa and
Pope John Paul -- stood tall against the oppressors. The empire
collapsed because enough good men and women followed the motto of
a saint: the worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. We kept our alliances strong. And even in the
darkest days, we stood steadfast for Poland's right to be free.
We gave humanitarian aid to Solidarity when it was needed the
most. Today we continue to give substantial assistance, helping
Poland build a stable democracy and a prospering economy. Just
as important has been the voluntary help from the Church, from
organized labor, and from the Polish-American community.
History will honor the role of the Polonia -- the worldwide
Polish community -- for giving birth to a new age of freedom.
And to symbolize this, this year we will fulfill the dying wish
3
of Ignacy Paderewski and send his remains for burial in the
sacred soil of a free Poland. 11
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those who still have not. won full freedom. I think especially of
the brave people of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, and Macedonia.
There is enormous work still to be done to transform the old
totalitarian systems into prospering free market democracies.
Our leadership for freedom must continue. You know that: No
one knows better than Polish-Americans the rewards of staying
strong and engaged in the world. No one knows better than you
the tragic harm that comes from weakness and isolationism. We'll
keep working together. We'll secure the peace and win new
prosperity for Poland and all the Free World.
Just as we must continue changing the world, we must
redouble our efforts to change America for the better. We need
excellent schools -- to offer education that's worthy of the love
we have for our children. At the center of my education reform
plan is real financial freedom for parents to choose their
children's schools -- including private and parochial schools.
This would follow the model child-care bill I've already pushed
through Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose.
Let me close with a fable about liberal social planners that
reminds me of Lech Walesa's down-to-earth humor. It's a story
Russians used to tell during the last days of Communism:
A farmer's chickens were dying. So for help he went to the
communist party hack who was the local agriculture commissar.
4
The commissar said, "Give them aspirin." And over the next few
days, 50 chickens died. The commissar then said, "give them
penicillin." And in a few days, a hundred more chickens died.
So the commissar advised castor oil.
After the castor oil therapy, the farmer went to the
commissar and announced that all the remaining chickens had died.
"What a pity! What a pity!" the commissar said. "I had so
many other ideas I wanted to try!"
Well let me tell you: As long as I'm President, American
families will not be guinea pigs for cockeyed social planners. 11
We will keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility first as
we make this country better. Sure, we need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. III
This country was built on family, faith and freedom -- and
we must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans to
move our country forward to new glories. Thank you. May God
bless Poland and the United States of America.
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economic growth plan I asked Congress to pass by March 20: this
Friday. My plan offers new incentives to get this economy
moving: It's critical to get Congressional approval immediately.
I'd also like to let you in on an exciting new idea. Its
I
going to be called a "cash for clunker" proposal, but let me tell
you what it's really going to mean for this country -- cleaner
air and fuel efficiency. It's very simple. We will allow
companies or states to provide cash incentives to get older cars
retired earlier -- sending these heavy polluters and gas guzzlers
off to the junkyards. That will help these companies or local
areas meet the tough requirements of our clean air law
€-
and
we'll all breathe easier over that. But think how this might
also help the auto industry -- in a chain reaction, the number of
new-car sales could rise. These are the kind of innovative ideas
we're going to keep introducing to bolster our economy.
But I'd like to talk with you about another battle for the
health of the economy -- the struggle against excessive
regulation. American workers have shown to foreign competitors
that, given a level playing field, we can outthink, outperform
and outproduce anyone, anyplace, anytime. Well, a level playing
field outside the United States is all well and good, but you'll
never reach it if you have to run yourselves to exhaustion right
here at home on a treadmill of overzealous regulation.
In my State of the Union Message, I instituted a 90-day
review of proposed and existing federal regulations that could
affect economic growth. Now we're speeding up rules that help
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I have been speaking to business groups around the United States to tell them about the
Enterprise Fund's progress as a source of encouragement to their own investment efforts.
It is important that the ethnic Polish community know that the innovative initiative
established as the Polish-American Enterprise Fund is indeed working to help redevelop
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Draft Three
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments]: Thank you for this warm
welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-American community. It
is an honor to be here again. Somebody suggested that my
neighborly visit had something to do with the Illinois primary
election. 11 Yes, there's something to that. I'm working to
win that election. And I know my friends in the Democratic party
have quite a number of primary contests on their side too. I
mention this because if we think we have political headaches here
-- they're nothing compared with what my friend Lech Walesa has
America 5 fist - & maybe that's
to go through in Poland. I only have two major parties to deal with in everyl
Congress. At last count, I think Lech had 18 different political
parties to wrangle with in the Polish Parliament! 11
Whenever I meet with your community, I remember my visit
here in 1988 to another center of Polish-American activity in
Chicago -- the church of St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then
to join with many of you in prayers for peace and freedom and to
lay a wreath at the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity,
Father Popieluszko [po-PYUSH-ko].
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed -- and the
transformation began in Poland. 11 Brave Poland overthrew the
cruel tyranny that Stalin had imposed after Yalta. 11 And now,
2 t the Sorret an Unron clased to
Soviet imperial communism is dead. It has given way peacefully
to freedom and self-government not only in Poland, but in
Poland's neighboring countries of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania,
Czechoslovakia and eastern Germany. Communism is dead in central
Asia -- and in Russia itself. The threat of nuclear war has
diminished dramatically. These are blessings that millions of us
have worked -- and prayed -- to attain. 11
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
proxia
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you. The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
nuclear
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski [vi-SHIN-ski] and
murdered Father Popieluszko. They sneered at believers.
all The while
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers -- who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the 10by camps.
Patient believers -- who thought they'd never live to see the
answer to their prayers. Simple believers -- who grasped little
of geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power
to change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski and Father Popieluszko -- like Lech
Walesa and Pope John Paul -- stood tall against the oppressors.
The empire collapsed because enough good men and women followed
the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of Loyola, they worked as
3
though everything depended on themselves -- and they prayed as
though everything depended on God.
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military worked for and won the same achievement as the men and
women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when the
people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid the
hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with them.
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
during the dark days
aid which we gave Solidarity and the substantial assistance we
supply today, helping Poland build a stable democracy and a
prospering economy. As Poland launched its democratic
revolution, we've tried to be helpful every step of the way.
We've launched the Polish-American Enterprise Fund; we gave $200
million to help stabilize the Polish currency; we led the way in
reducing some $17 billion in Poland's official debt; and we're
working hard to open U.S. and European markets and to strengthen
investment in Poland. Volunteers from the Church, from the
Polish-American community, from organized labor also gave
indispensable help.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history will must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people. Two
brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness, Pope John
Paul II -- have altered world history through their courage and
moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two inspired men
4
could not have accomplished what they have -- had it not been for
the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia. 11
Another symbol of the rebirth of freedom involves the late
Ignacy Paderewski, Poland's great musician and statesman. It was
his dying wish that his body should not be returned to home until
Poland was free. And our President honored his request and gave
him a temporary resting place at Arlington National Cemetery.
Now, 51 years after his death, Paderewski's remains will go to
their permanent resting place. in The Poland. good 11 earth of a Free Foland,
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those people who still have not won full freedom. I am thinking
especially today of the brave people of Croatia, of Slovenia, of
Bosnia, and of Macedonia. 11 Nor must we forget the people who
live under regimes that deny freedom of expression and freedom to
worship -- for instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
There is enormous still work still such to be done to trnasform the old
totalitarian systems into prospering free market democracies
Our work is far from over. America's leadership in defense
of freedom must continue. And if ever there were a case of
preaching to the choir -- I suppose that would be giving this
message to Polish-Americans. No one knows better than Polish-
Americans the rewards of staying strong and engaged in the world.
No one knows better than Polish-Americans the tragic harm that
comes from weakness and isolationism. So I pledge to you today:
I'll keep working with you -- and together, we'll secure Poland's
new freedoms. Together, And we'll win the campaign Ging for prosperity. -We'll
to Poland
5
do this by opening world markets and giving people the freedom to
follow their dreams.
Just as we must continue changing the world, we must
redouble our efforts to change America for the better. We need
excellent schools -- to offer education that's worthy of the love
we have for our children. At the center of my education reform
plan is real financial freedom for parents to choose their
children's schools -- including private and parochial schools.
This would follow the model of the child-care bill I've already
pushed through Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who
cares for their children.
Speaking for myself, I'm sick and tired of how the liberals
treat the American families like lab specimens for their social
theories. I'd like a return to basic common sense.
Whenever I talk with my friend Lech Walesa, he salts his
conversation with down-to-earth humor. He especially likes to Fond
tell fables about farm animals. So let me offer you a little
parable about social planners and their theories. This happens
to be a story the Russians used to tell during the last days of
Communism:
A farmer's chickens were dying. So for help he went to the
communist party hack who was the local agriculture commissar.
And
The commissar said, "Give them aspirin." But over the next few
days, 50 chickens died.
6
And
The commissar then said, "give them penicillin." But in a
few days, a hundred more chickens died. So the commissar advised
castor oil.
After the castor oil therapy, the farmer went to the
commissar and announced that all the remaining chickens had died.
"What a pity! What a pity!" the commissar said. "I had so
many other ideas I wanted to try!" 1111
Well let me tell you: As long as I'm President, American
families will not be guinea pigs for cockeyed social planners.
We will keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we make this country better. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
And we can get this economy moving again sooner and faster
if only Congress would meet my deadline and pass my economic
growth plan. That deadline is this Friday -- March 20. 111.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans to
move our country forward to new glories. Thank you. May God
bless Poland and the United States of America -- both of them
lands of the free, both of them homes of the brave.
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Draft Two
02 MAR 13 A9: 46
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked -- and prayed
-- to attain.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
St. Petersburg
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you. " The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
2
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. They called religion
the 'opium opiate of the people" and said they would wipe it out.
pledged to
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the labor camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
The
citizen does not demand his rights, Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave. " The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the United States Stood by them
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them. and gave Them our steadFast support.
America played a critical role in bring. Freedom to The East bloc - Through government
action economic inFluence, and The tireless, Voluntary efforts of Communities such as yours.
Our government gave crucial support, the humanitarian
In Particular, I'm Thinking of The
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
But justas
importanth
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic government.
have been
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
who have
from organized labor, offered indispensable help. Through it all,
we looked to Heaven for help -- and help was granted.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
This momentous era
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people.
Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote:
"
wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pope John Paul II -- have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have -- had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those countries still tormented by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability -- nations like Croatia and Serbia and
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -- for
North Korea
instance the people of Cuba, and China and Vietnam.
Good!
4
We've helped change the world -- and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
Because
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
we
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
thengthering to Familing
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
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Excellent piece of work.
Afew suggestions.
(Duggan/Gershowitz)
March 13, 1992
Draft Two
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth A It was my privilege then to join opportunity
whose commitment to meaningful examployment
and the
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
hope of
economic
advance.
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
ment we
great.
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked -- and prayed
-- to attain, not to mention our belief in excellent schools that forters and a lifeling culture learning.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you. The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
And what did he know about an my
commitment to quality health care
and a sense of well- being?
2
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. They called religion
the "opium of the people" and said they would wipe it out.
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a live in
for a decent, drug-free and safe place to
a
clean
citizen does not demand his rights," Cardinal Wyszynski declared environment
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave." The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
3
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
in its commitment to children yenth developing good character and
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic government. values strong and
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community, families
from organized labor offered indispensable help. Through it all,
we looked to Heaven for help -- and help was granted.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people.
Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote:
"
wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pope John Paul II -- have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have -- had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those countries still tormented by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability -- nations like Croatia and Serbia and
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -- for
instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
4
We've helped change the world -- and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
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Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Somebody suggested that my neighborly visit had something to
do with the Illinois primary election. 11 Yes, there's
something to that. I'm working to win that election. And I know
my friends in the Democratic party have quite a number of primary
contests on their side too. I mention this because if we think
we have political headaches here -- they're nothing compared with
what my friend Lech Walesa has to go through in Poland. I only
have two parties to deal with in Congress. At last count, I
think Lech had 18 different political parties to wrangle with in
the Polish Parliament! 11
Whenever I meet with your community, I remember my. visit
here in 1988 to another center of Polish-American activity in
Chicago -- the church of St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then
to join with many of you in prayers for peace and freedom and to
lay a wreath at the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity,
Father Popieluszko [po-PYUSH-ko].
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed -- and the
transformation began in Poland. 11 Brave Poland overthrew the
2
cruel tyranny that Stalin had imposed after Yalta. 11 And now,
Soviet imperial communism is dead. It has given way peacefully
to freedom and self-government not only in Poland, but in
Poland's neighboring countries of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania,
Czechoslovakia and eastern Germany. Communism is dead in central
Asia -- and in Russia itself. The threat of nuclear war has
diminished dramatically. These are blessings that millions of us
have worked -- and prayed -- to attain. 11
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you. The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski [vi-SHIN-ski] and
murdered Father Popieluszko. They sneered at believers.
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers -- who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers -- who thought they'd never live to see the
answer to their prayers. Simple believers -- who grasped little
of geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power
to change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski and Father Popieluszko -- like Lech
Walesa and Pope John Paul -- stood tall against the oppressors.
The empire collapsed because enough good men and women followed
3
the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of Loyola, they worked as
though everything depended on themselves -- and they prayed as
though everything depended on God.
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and the substantial assistance we
supply today, helping Poland build a stable democracy and a
prospering economy. As Poland launched its democratic
revolution, we've tried to be helpful every step of the way. And
so we've launched the Polish-American Enterprise Fund; we gave
help
$200 million to a fund to stabilize the Polish currency; we led
the way in reducing some $17 billion in Poland's official debt;
and we're working hard now to open U.S. and European markets and
to strengthen investment in Poland. Volunteers from the Church,
from the Polish-American community, from organized labor also
gave indispensable help.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people. Two
brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness, Pope John
4
Paul II -- have altered world history through their courage and
moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two inspired men
could not have accomplished what they have -- had it not been for
the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
11
Another symbolic expression of the our new freedom I is has to
concerns
do with the remains of the great musician and statesman, Ignacy
Paderewski. It was his dying wish that his body should not be
home
returned to Poland until Poland was free. And our President
honored his request and gave him a temporary resting place at
Arlington National Cemetery. Now, 51 years after his death,
Paderewski's remains will go to their permanent resting place in
Poland. 11
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those people who still have not won full freedom. I am thinking
especially today of the brave people of Croatia, of Slovenia, of
Bosnia, and of Macedonia. 11 Nor must we forget the people who
live under regimes that deny freedom of expression and freedom to
worship -- for instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
There is enormous work still to be done to trnasform the old
totalitarian systems into prospering free market democracies.
Our work is far from over. America's leadership in defense
of freedom must continue. And if ever there were a case of
preaching to the choir -- I suppose that would be giving this
message to Polish-Americans. No one knows better than Polish-
Americans the rewards of staying strong and engaged in the world.
No one knows better than Polish-Americans the tragic harm that
5
comes from weakness and isolationism. So I pledge to you today:
I'll keep working with you -- and together, we'll secure Poland's
new freedoms. And we'll win the campaign for prosperity. We'll
do this by opening world markets by and giving people the freedom to
follow their dreams.
Just as we must continue changing the world, we must
redouble our efforts to change America for the better. We need
excellent schools -- to offer education that's worthy of the love
we have for our children. At the center of my education reform
plan is real financial freedom for parents to choose their
children's schools -- including private and parochial schools.
This would follow the model of the child-care bill I've already
pushed through Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who
cares for their children.
Speaking for myself, I'm sick and tired of how the liberals
treat the American families like lab specimens for their social
theories. I'd like a return to basic common sense.
Whenever I talk with my friend Lech Walesa, he salts his
conversation with down-to-earth humor. He especially likes to
tell fables about farm animals. So let me offer you a little
parable about social planners and their theories. This happens
to be a story the Russians used to tell during the last days of
Communism:
A farmer's chickens were dying. So for help he went to the
communist party hack who was the local agriculture commissar.
6
The commissar said, "Give them aspirin." But over the next few
days, 50 chickens died.
The commissar then said, "give them penicillin." But in a
few days, a hundred more chickens died. So the commissar advised
castor oil.
After the castor oil therapy, the farmer went to the
commissar and announced that all the remaining chickens had died.
"What a pity! What a pity!" the commissar said. "I had so
many other ideas I wanted to try!" 1111
Well let me tell you: As long as I'm President, American
families will not be guinea pigs for cockeyed social planners.
III We will keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
in finst place fisher
Sure,
paramount as we make this country better. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
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DATE:
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
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VICE PRESIDENT
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SKINNER
MCBRIDE
SCOWCROFT
MOORE
DARMAN
PETERSMEYER
BRADY
PORTER
BROMLEY
ROGICH
CALIO
ROLLINS
DEMAREST
SMITH
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REMARKS:
Please forward your comments directly to Dan McGroarty,
Rm. 122, x2930, no later than 1:00 p.m., TODAY, FRIDAY,
MARCH 13, with a copy to this office. Thank you.
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Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked -- and prayed
-- to attain.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you." The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
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The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. They called religion
the "opium of the people" and said they would wipe it out.
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
citizen does not demand his rights," Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave." The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
on both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
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our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
aid which we gave Solidarity - and which we continue to supply
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic government.
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
from organized labor offered indispensable help. Through it all,
we looked to Heaven for help - and help was granted.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people.
Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote:
"
wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland - Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pops John Paul II - have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have - had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those countries still tormented by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability -- nations like Croatia and Serbia and
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -- for
instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
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We've helped change the world - and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
Jennifer Memorandum for Speechwriting Staff
From:
Dan McGroarty
Regarding: Polish American
Please return your comments to
Room 122 by:
12 2noon noon
Today's Date: MAR 13 131992
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Draft Two
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
applause lines
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
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Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
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patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
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How our prayers have been answered in those few short years! 11
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial redundant
dissolved. In its wake freedom disnity,
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These are blessings that millions of us have worked -- and prayed
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For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you." The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
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The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
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like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
citizen does not demand his rights," Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
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On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
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men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
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Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic government.
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
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Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
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Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote: "um wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pope John Paul II -- have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
too anglophillic
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have -- had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
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those countries still tormented by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability - nations like Croatia and Serbia and
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -- for
instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
4
We've helped change the world -- and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
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(paramount) as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
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better
word
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
heal America
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
#
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March 13, 1992
Draft Two
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked --- and prayed
-- to attain.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you." The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
2
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. They called religion
the "opium of the people" and said they would wipe it out.
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
citizen does not demand his rights, Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave." The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
3
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic government.
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
from organized labor offered indispensable help. Through it all,
we looked to Heaven for help -- and help was granted.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people.
Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote:
"
wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pope John Paul II -- have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have -- had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those countries still tormented by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability -- nations like Croatia and Serbia and
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -- for
instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
4
We've helped change the world -- and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
#
#
#
(Duggan/Gershowitz)
March 13, 1992
Draft Two
Polish
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
POLISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
WHITE EAGLE BANQUET HALL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
[time]
Ed Moskal, [other acknowledgments], ladies and gentlemen:
Thank you for this warm welcome to the heart of Chicago's Polish-
American community. It is an honor to be here again.
Whenever I return to the Polish-American community in
Chicago, I remember my visit here in 1988 to the church of your
patron saint -- St. Hyacinth. It was my privilege then to join
with you in prayers for peace and freedom and to lay a wreath at
the memorial for the martyred hero of Solidarity, Father
Popieluszko.
How our prayers have been answered in those few short years!
Since 1988, our world has been transformed. Soviet imperial
communism has given way peacefully to freedom and self-government
in Poland, in eastern Europe, in central Asia -- and in Russia
itself. The threat of nuclear war has diminished dramatically.
These are blessings that millions of us have worked --- and prayed
-- to attain.
For decades, we faced a mortal danger. After seizing power
in Moscow 75 years ago, the communists fought to dominate the
world. Khrushchev shouted, "We will bury you." The Soviet Union
threatened the very existence of free Europe and the United
States with its massive armies and arsenals of nuclear weapons.
2
The communists persecuted believers and demolished houses of
worship. They imprisoned Cardinal Wyszynski and murdered Father
Popieluszko. They sneered at believers. They called religion
the "opium of the people" and said they would wipe it out.
But believers kept on believing: Stubborn believers who
suffered every sort of torment in the prisons and the camps.
Patient believers who thought they'd never live to see the answer
to their prayers. Simple believers who grasped little of
geopolitical facts and theories, but knew they held the power to
change the world in their folded hands.
The empire of atheistic communism fell because brave men
like Cardinal Wyszynski stood tall against the oppressors. "If a
citizen does not demand his rights," Cardinal Wyszynski declared
when communist power was at its peak, "he is no longer a citizen.
He becomes a slave." The empire collapsed because enough good
men and women followed the motto of a saint: Like Ignatius of
Loyola, they worked as though everything depended on themselves -
- and they prayed as though everything depended on God. 11
On both sides of the Iron Curtain, people labored for peace
and freedom. By keeping the Free World's alliances strong, our
military people worked for and won the same achievement as the
men and women of Solidarity. During those harrowing years when
the people of Solidarity struggled to build a civil society amid
the hollowness of the communist state, Americans worked with
them.
3
Our government gave crucial support, like the humanitarian
aid which we gave Solidarity -- and which we continue to supply
today, helping Poland consolidate its new democratic government.
Volunteers from the Church, from the Polish-American community,
from organized labor offered indispensable help. Through it all,
we looked to Heaven for help -- and help was granted.
Many years from now, when new generations are learning about
our eventful times, history must give special merit to Poland and
to the Polonia -- the worldwide community of Polish people.
Poles are a people with a special sense of mission. Kosciuszko
and Pulaski showed this spirit in helping Americans win our War
for Independence. And the poet Adam Mickiewicz captured this
spirit a century and a half ago when he wrote:
"
wherever
freedom is oppressed and is fought for, there is our struggle,
and there is our homeland and our duty."
Two brave sons of Poland -- Lech Walesa and His Holiness,
Pope John Paul II -- have altered world history through their
courage and moral leadership. And I daresay this: These two
inspired men could not have accomplished what they have -- had it
not been for the unceasing good works and prayers of the Polonia.
The world is safer and freer now, but we must not forget
those countries still tormented by totalitarian violence and
oppression and instability -- nations like Croatia and Serbia and
Cambodia. Nor must we forget the people who live under regimes
that deny freedom of expression and freedom to worship -- for
instance the people of Cuba and China and Vietnam.
4
We've helped change the world -- and now we must work to
change America for the better. We need excellent schools -- to
offer education that's worthy of the love we have for our
children. At the center of my education reform plan is real
financial freedom for parents to choose their children's schools
-- including private and parochial schools. This would follow
the model of the child-care bill I've already pushed through
Congress, protecting parents' rights to choose who cares for
their children.
We must keep family, dignity, work, and responsibility
paramount as we reform our welfare system. We need an efficient
government to preserve our liberties, but if we really want to
cure our social ills we must have more voluntary community action
-- what I've called points of light. We'll solve our greatest
social problems when millions more individuals and tens of
thousands more voluntary groups enlist in the cause.
America was built on family, faith and freedom -- and we
must renew those sources of our strength. As I count my many
blessings, I know I can count on the help of Polish-Americans as
we work to heal the ills that still afflict our society.
Thank you. May God bless Poland and the United States of
America -- both of them lands of the free, both of them homes of
the brave.
#
#
#
POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE \ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
GOVERNOR EDGAR, ED MOSKAL, ED DYKLA, BISHOP
ZAWISTOWSKI [ZA-VI-STOFF-SKI], FATHER PHILLIPS, ED
DERWINSKI, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THANK YOU FOR THAT
WARM CHICAGO WELCOME. SOMEBODY SUGGESTED THIS VISIT
HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY ELECTION.
11 THAT'S TRUE -- I'M WORKING TO WIN THAT ELECTION.
- 2 -
BUT IF ANYONE THINKS WE HAVE POLITICAL HEADACHES HERE
-- THEY'RE NOTHING COMPARED WITH WHAT LECH WALESA HAS
TO GO THROUGH IN POLAND. WE HAVE TWO MAJOR PARTIES.
LOOK AT ALL THE PARTIES HE HAS TO CONTEND WITH -- CLOSE
TO 20 AT LAST COUNT. EVEN THE POLISH BEER DRINKERS'
PARTY HAS SPLIT INTO TWO FACTIONS! TRUE STORY! 11
- 3 -
WHENEVER I VISIT HERE, I REMEMBER OTHER OCCASIONS
I'VE HAD TO GET TOGETHER WITH YOUR COMMUNITY: BACK IN
1988 AT THE WAKE FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT OF THE POLISH
NATIONAL ALLIANCE, AL MAZEWSKI [MA-ZEFF-SKI]; AT THE
INAUGURAL CELEBRATION FOR YOUR CURRENT PRESIDENT, ED
MOSKAL; AND AT A VERY BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY MASS AT ST.
HYACINTH'S CHURCH.
- 4 -
THERE I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO JOIN WITH MANY OF YOU IN
PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, AND TO LAY A WREATH AT
THE MEMORIAL FOR THE MARTYR OF SOLIDARITY, FATHER
POPIELUSZKO [po-PYUSH-Ko].
How OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED IN THOSE FEW
SHORT YEARS. SINCE 1988, OUR WORLD HAS BEEN
TRANSFORMED -- AND THAT CHANGE BEGAN IN POLAND. 11
POLAND OVERTHREW THE CRUEL TYRANNY THAT STALIN IMPOSED
AFTER YALTA. 11
- 5 -
Now, IMPERIAL COMMUNISM IS DEAD -- AND THE SOVIET UNION
HAS CEASED TO EXIST. III THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR HAS
DIMINISHED DRAMATICALLY. THESE ARE BLESSINGS THAT
MILLIONS OF US HAVE WORKED -- AND PRAYED -- TO ATTAIN.
FOR DECADES WE FACED MORTAL DANGER. THE COMMUNISTS
FOUGHT TO DOMINATE THE WORLD. THE SOVIET UNION
THREATENED THE VERY EXISTENCE OF FREE EUROPE AND THE
UNITED STATES WITH ITS MASSIVE ARMIES AND NUCLEAR
ARSENALS.
- 6 -
THE COMMUNISTS PERSECUTED BELIEVERS AND DEMOLISHED
HOUSES OF WORSHIP. THEY IMPRISONED CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI
[VI-SHIN-SKI] AND MURDERED FATHER POPIELUSZKO.
BUT ALL THE WHILE, BELIEVERS KEPT ON BELIEVING:
STUBBORN BELIEVERS -- WHO SUFFERED EVERY SORT OF
TORMENT IN THE PRISONS AND LABOR CAMPS. PATIENT
BELIEVERS -- WHO THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER LIVE TO SEE THE
ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS.
- 7 -
SIMPLE BELIEVERS -- WHO GRASPED LITTLE OF GEOPOLITICAL
FACTS AND THEORIES, BUT KNEW THEY HELD THE POWER TO
CHANGE THE WORLD IN THEIR FOLDED HANDS.
INSPIRED BY BRAVE LEADERS LIKE LECH WALESA AND POPE
JOHN PAUL, GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON
CURTAIN WORKED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING DEPENDED ON
THEMSELVES -- AND THEY PRAYED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING
DEPENDED ON GOD. 11
- 8 -
WHEN I HAD THE PRIVILEGE IN 1989 AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES To STAND WITH LECH WALESA AND
THOUSANDS OF FREEDOM-LOVING POLES AT THE GDANSK
SHIPYARD, WHEN I SAW THE FAITH AND COURAGE OF THOSE
PEOPLE -- I KNEW THAT FREEDOM WOULD PREVAIL. 11
EVEN IN THE DARKEST DAYS, WE STOOD STEADFAST FOR
POLAND'S RIGHT TO BE FREE. WE KEPT OUR ALLIANCES
STRONG. WE GAVE HUMANITARIAN AID TO SOLIDARITY WHEN IT
WAS NEEDED THE MOST.
- 9 -
TODAY WE CONTINUE TO GIVE ASSISTANCE, HELPING POLAND
BUILD A STABLE DEMOCRACY AND A PROSPERING ECONOMY. IN
ADDITION TO THE SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL AID, I UNDERSTAND
THE ONE THOUSANDTH CARGO CONTAINER OF AMERICAN
HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES WAS JUST SENT ON ITS WAY TO
POLAND. AND I'VE JUST WRITTEN LECH WALESA TO OFFER
FURTHER HELP IN BRINGING MORE AMERICAN INVESTMENT TO
POLAND.
- 10 -
JUST AS IMPORTANT HAS BEEN THE VOLUNTARY HELP FROM
THE CHURCH, FROM ORGANIZED LABOR, AND FROM THE POLISH-
AMERICAN COMMUNITY. HISTORY WILL HONOR THE ROLE OF THE
POLONIA -- THE WORLDWIDE POLISH COMMUNITY -- FOR GIVING
BIRTH TO A NEW AGE OF FREEDOM. AND TO SYMBOLIZE THIS,
THIS YEAR WE WILL FULFILL THE DYING WISH OF IGNACY
PADEREWSKI [PA-DER-EFF-SKI] AND SEND HIS REMAINS FOR
BURIAL IN THE SACRED SOIL OF A FREE POLAND. 11
- 11 -
THE WORLD IS SAFER AND FREER NOW, BUT WE MUST NOT
FORGET THOSE WHO STILL HAVE NOT WON FULL FREEDOM. I
THINK ESPECIALLY OF THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF THOSE REPUBLICS
OF A DISINTEGRATING YUGOSLAVIA WHO ARE SEEKING TO
ESTABLISH THEIR SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENCE. As WE TOLD OUR
EUROPEAN ALLIES LAST WEEK, WE ARE GIVING POSITIVE
CONSIDERATION TO THE RECOGNITION OF SLOVENIA AND
CROATIA.
- 12 -
WE ALSO ARE CONSIDERING THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO
MEET THE DESIRE FOR PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENCE
ON THE PART OF THE OTHER REPUBLICS.
OUR LEADERSHIP FOR FREEDOM MUST CONTINUE. You KNOW
THAT: No ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN POLISH-AMERICANS THE
REWARDS OF STAYING STRONG AND ENGAGED IN THE WORLD. No
ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU THE TRAGIC HARM THAT COMES
FROM WEAKNESS AND ISOLATIONISM.
- 13 -
WE'LL KEEP WORKING TOGETHER. WE'LL SECURE THE PEACE
AND WIN NEW PROSPERITY -- FOR POLAND AND ALL THE FREE
WORLD.
WE MUST CONTINUE CHANGING THE WORLD -- AND WE MUST
REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO CHANGE AMERICA FOR THE BETTER.
GET OUR ECONOMY GOING AGAIN -- CREATE GOOD JOBS.
STRENGTHEN OUR FAMILIES. PUT LIMITS ON BIG GOVERNMENT.
- 14 -
LET ME CLOSE WITH A FABLE ABOUT LIBERAL SOCIAL
PLANNERS THAT REMINDS ME OF LECH WALESA'S DOWN-TO-EARTH
HUMOR. IT'S A STORY RUSSIANS USED TO TELL DURING THE
LAST DAYS OF COMMUNISM:
A FARMER'S CHICKENS WERE DYING. So FOR HELP HE
WENT TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY HACK WHO WAS THE LOCAL
AGRICULTURE COMMISSAR. THE COMMISSAR SAID, "GIVE THEM
ASPIRIN." AND OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, 50 CHICKENS
DIED.
- 15 -
THE COMMISSAR THEN SAID, "GIVE THEM PENICILLIN." AND
IN A FEW DAYS, A HUNDRED MORE CHICKENS DIED. So THE
COMMISSAR ADVISED CASTOR OIL. AFTER THE CASTOR OIL
THERAPY, THE FARMER WENT TO THE COMMISSAR AND ANNOUNCED
THAT ALL THE REMAINING CHICKENS HAD DIED. "WHAT A
PITY! WHAT A PITY!" THE COMMISSAR SAID. "I HAD so
MANY OTHER IDEAS I WANTED To TRY!" 1111
- 16 -
WELL LET ME TELL YOU: As LONG AS I'M PRESIDENT,
AMERICAN FAMILIES WILL NOT BE GUINEA PIGS FOR SOCIAL
PLANNERS. 11 WE WILL KEEP FAMILY, DIGNITY, WORK, AND
RESPONSIBILITY FIRST -- AND WE'LL MAKE THIS COUNTRY
BETTER. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON FAMILY, FAITH AND
FREEDOM -- AND WE MUST RENEW THOSE SOURCES OF OUR
STRENGTH. As BARBARA AND I COUNT OUR MANY BLESSINGS,
WE KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON POLISH-AMERICANS TO MOVE OUR
COUNTRY FORWARD TO NEW GLORIES.
- 17 -
THANK YOU. MAY GOD BLESS POLAND AND THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA -- LANDS OF THE FREE AND HOMES OF THE BRAVE.
# # #
POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE \ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
GOVERNOR EDGAR, ED MOSKAL, ED DYKLA, BISHOP
ZAWISTOWSKI [ZA-VI-STOFF-SKI], FATHER PHILLIPS, ED
DERWINSKI, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THANK YOU FOR THAT
WARM CHICAGO WELCOME. SOMEBODY SUGGESTED THIS VISIT
HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY ELECTION.
11 THAT'S TRUE -- I'M WORKING TO WIN THAT ELECTION.
- 2 -
BUT IF ANYONE THINKS WE HAVE POLITICAL HEADACHES HERE
-- THEY'RE NOTHING COMPARED WITH WHAT LECH WALESA HAS
TO GO THROUGH IN POLAND. WE HAVE TWO MAJOR PARTIES.
LOOK AT ALL THE PARTIES HE HAS TO CONTEND WITH -- CLOSE
TO 20 AT LAST COUNT. EVEN THE POLISH BEER DRINKERS'
PARTY HAS SPLIT INTO TWO FACTIONS! TRUE STORY! 11
- 3 -
WHENEVER I VISIT HERE, I REMEMBER OTHER OCCASIONS
I'VE HAD TO GET TOGETHER WITH YOUR COMMUNITY: BACK IN
1988 AT THE WAKE FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT OF THE POLISH
NATIONAL ALLIANCE, AL MAZEWSKI [MA-ZEFF-SKI]; AT THE
INAUGURAL CELEBRATION FOR YOUR CURRENT PRESIDENT, ED
MOSKAL; AND AT A VERY BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY MASS AT ST.
HYACINTH'S CHURCH.
- 4 -
THERE I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO JOIN WITH MANY OF YOU IN
PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, AND TO LAY A WREATH AT
THE MEMORIAL FOR THE MARTYR OF SOLIDARITY, FATHER
POPIELUSZKO [po-PYUSH-Ko].
How OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED IN THOSE FEW
SHORT YEARS. SINCE 1988, OUR WORLD HAS BEEN
TRANSFORMED -- AND THAT CHANGE BEGAN IN POLAND. 11
POLAND OVERTHREW THE CRUEL TYRANNY THAT STALIN IMPOSED
AFTER YALTA. 11
- 5 -
Now, IMPERIAL COMMUNISM IS DEAD -- AND THE SOVIET UNION
HAS CEASED To EXIST. III THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR HAS
DIMINISHED DRAMATICALLY. THESE ARE BLESSINGS THAT
MILLIONS OF US HAVE WORKED -- AND PRAYED -- TO ATTAIN.
FOR DECADES WE FACED MORTAL DANGER. THE COMMUNISTS
FOUGHT TO DOMINATE THE WORLD. THE SOVIET UNION
THREATENED THE VERY EXISTENCE OF FREE EUROPE AND THE
UNITED STATES WITH ITS MASSIVE ARMIES AND NUCLEAR
ARSENALS.
- 6 -
THE COMMUNISTS PERSECUTED BELIEVERS AND DEMOLISHED
HOUSES OF WORSHIP. THEY IMPRISONED CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI
[vI-SHIN-SKI] AND MURDERED FATHER POPIELUSZKO.
BUT ALL THE WHILE, BELIEVERS KEPT ON BELIEVING:
STUBBORN BELIEVERS -- WHO SUFFERED EVERY SORT OF
TORMENT IN THE PRISONS AND LABOR CAMPS. PATIENT
BELIEVERS -- WHO THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER LIVE TO SEE THE
ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS.
- 7 -
SIMPLE BELIEVERS -- WHO GRASPED LITTLE OF GEOPOLITICAL
FACTS AND THEORIES, BUT KNEW THEY HELD THE POWER TO
CHANGE THE WORLD IN THEIR FOLDED HANDS.
INSPIRED BY BRAVE LEADERS LIKE LECH WALESA AND POPE
JOHN PAUL, GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON
CURTAIN WORKED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING DEPENDED ON
THEMSELVES -- AND THEY PRAYED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING
DEPENDED ON GOD. 11
- 8 -
WHEN I HAD THE PRIVILEGE IN 1989 AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES TO STAND WITH LECH WALESA AND
THOUSANDS OF FREEDOM-LOVING POLES AT THE GDANSK
SHIPYARD, WHEN I SAW THE FAITH AND COURAGE OF THOSE
PEOPLE -- I KNEW THAT FREEDOM WOULD PREVAIL. 11
EVEN IN THE DARKEST DAYS, WE STOOD STEADFAST FOR
POLAND'S RIGHT TO BE FREE. WE KEPT OUR ALLIANCES
STRONG. WE GAVE HUMANITARIAN AID TO SOLIDARITY WHEN IT
WAS NEEDED THE MOST.
- 9 -
TODAY WE CONTINUE To GIVE ASSISTANCE, HELPING POLAND
BUILD A STABLE DEMOCRACY AND A PROSPERING ECONOMY. IN
ADDITION TO THE SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL AID, I UNDERSTAND
THE ONE THOUSANDTH CARGO CONTAINER OF AMERICAN
HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES WAS JUST SENT ON ITS WAY TO
POLAND. AND I'VE JUST WRITTEN LECH WALESA TO OFFER
FURTHER HELP IN BRINGING MORE AMERICAN INVESTMENT TO
POLAND.
- 10 -
JUST AS IMPORTANT HAS BEEN THE VOLUNTARY HELP FROM
THE CHURCH, FROM ORGANIZED LABOR, AND FROM THE POLISH-
AMERICAN COMMUNITY. HISTORY WILL HONOR THE ROLE OF THE
POLONIA -- THE WORLDWIDE POLISH COMMUNITY -- FOR GIVING
BIRTH TO A NEW AGE OF FREEDOM. AND TO SYMBOLIZE THIS,
THIS YEAR WE WILL FULFILL THE DYING WISH OF IGNACY
PADEREWSKI [PA-DER-EFF-SKI] AND SEND HIS REMAINS FOR
BURIAL IN THE SACRED SOIL OF A FREE POLAND. 11
- 11 -
THE WORLD IS SAFER AND FREER NOW, BUT WE MUST NOT
FORGET THOSE WHO STILL HAVE NOT WON FULL FREEDOM. I
THINK ESPECIALLY OF THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF THOSE REPUBLICS
OF A DISINTEGRATING YUGOSLAVIA WHO ARE SEEKING TO
ESTABLISH THEIR SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENCE. As WE TOLD OUR
EUROPEAN ALLIES LAST WEEK, WE ARE GIVING POSITIVE
CONSIDERATION TO THE RECOGNITION OF SLOVENIA AND
CROATIA.
- 12 -
WE ALSO ARE CONSIDERING THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO
MEET THE DESIRE FOR PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENCE
ON THE PART OF THE OTHER REPUBLICS.
OUR LEADERSHIP FOR FREEDOM MUST CONTINUE. You KNOW
THAT: No ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN POLISH-AMERICANS THE
REWARDS OF STAYING STRONG AND ENGAGED IN THE WORLD. No
ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU THE TRAGIC HARM THAT COMES
FROM WEAKNESS AND ISOLATIONISM.
- 13 -
WE'LL KEEP WORKING TOGETHER. WE'LL SECURE THE PEACE
AND WIN NEW PROSPERITY -- FOR POLAND AND ALL THE FREE
WORLD.
WE MUST CONTINUE CHANGING THE WORLD -- AND WE MUST
REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO CHANGE AMERICA FOR THE BETTER.
GET OUR ECONOMY GOING AGAIN -- CREATE GOOD JOBS.
STRENGTHEN OUR FAMILIES. PUT LIMITS ON BIG GOVERNMENT.
- 14 -
LET ME CLOSE WITH A FABLE ABOUT LIBERAL SOCIAL
PLANNERS THAT REMINDS ME OF LECH WALESA'S DOWN-TO-EARTH
HUMOR. IT'S A STORY RUSSIANS USED To TELL DURING THE
LAST DAYS OF COMMUNISM:
A FARMER'S CHICKENS WERE DYING. So FOR HELP HE
WENT TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY HACK WHO WAS THE LOCAL
AGRICULTURE COMMISSAR. THE COMMISSAR SAID, "GIVE THEM
ASPIRIN." AND OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, 50 CHICKENS
DIED.
- 15 -
THE COMMISSAR THEN SAID, "GIVE THEM PENICILLIN." AND
IN A FEW DAYS, A HUNDRED MORE CHICKENS DIED. So THE
COMMISSAR ADVISED CASTOR OIL. AFTER THE CASTOR OIL
THERAPY, THE FARMER WENT TO THE COMMISSAR AND ANNOUNCED
THAT ALL THE REMAINING CHICKENS HAD DIED. "WHAT A
PITY! WHAT A PITY!" THE COMMISSAR SAID. "I HAD so
MANY OTHER IDEAS I WANTED To TRY!" 1111
- 16 -
WELL LET ME TELL YOU: As LONG AS I'M PRESIDENT,
AMERICAN FAMILIES WILL NOT BE GUINEA PIGS FOR SOCIAL
PLANNERS. 11 WE WILL KEEP FAMILY, DIGNITY, WORK, AND
RESPONSIBILITY FIRST -- AND WE'LL MAKE THIS COUNTRY
BETTER. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON FAMILY, FAITH AND
FREEDOM -- AND WE MUST RENEW THOSE SOURCES OF OUR
STRENGTH. As BARBARA AND I COUNT OUR MANY BLESSINGS,
WE KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON POLISH-AMERICANS TO MOVE OUR
COUNTRY FORWARD TO NEW GLORIES.
- 17 -
THANK YOU. MAY GOD BLESS POLAND AND THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA -- LANDS OF THE FREE AND HOMES OF THE BRAVE.
# # #
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DECEMBER 15, 1989
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George Bush
PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING FREEDOM
President of the United States of America-Page 130
Poland
Lech Walesa
SOLIDARITY AND FREEDOM
Chairman Solidarnosc-Page 132
Challenges to NATO in the 1990s
Sam Nunn
A TIME FOR RESOLVE AND VISION
U.S. Senator from Georgia-Page 135
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RELATION WITH CHINA
Governor of Hong Kong-Page 140
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BALANCING RESPONSIBILITY
Assistant Deputy Minister Technology and Field Services,
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food-Page 143
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POPULATION AND FOOD NEEDS
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SOME BANKING TRENDS NOT TO BE IGNORED
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TODAY'S CHALLENGES
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give him our assurance that America welcomes reform not as
reform, that America wants the people of the Soviet Union to
an adversary seeking advantage, but as a people offering sup-
fulfill their destiny. And I will assure him that there is no
port. Our goal is to see this historic tide of freedom broad-
greater advocate of perestroika than the President of the
ened, deepened - and sustained. We find enormous encour-
United States.
agement in its peaceful advance and its acceptance by the
When we meet, we will be on ships at anchor in a Medi-
Soviet Union. We can now raise our hopes on other issues -
terranean bay that has served as a sealane of commerce and
our common environment, our common war against drugs, as
conflict for more than two thousand years. This ancient port
well as on human rights, and the regional conflicts that remain.
has been conquered by Caesar and Sultan, Crusader and King.
Immediately after my visit with President Gorbachev, I will
Its forts and watchtowers survey a sea that entombs the scut-
go to Brussels to consult with our partners in NATO - the
tled ships of empires lost - slave galleys, galleons, dread-
very alliance that has kept the West free for 40 years. I will
noughts, destroyers. These ships, once meant to guard lasting
assure them that no matter how dramatic the change in East-
empires, now litter the ocean floor, and guard nothing more
ern Europe, or in the Soviet Union itself, the United States
than reefs of coral.
will continue to stand with our allies and our friends.
So if the millennia offer us a lesson, perhaps it is this: True
For in a new Europe, the American role may change in form
security does not come from empire and domination. True
but not in fundamentals. After all, the Soviet Union maintains
security can only be found in the growing trust of free
hundreds of thousands of troops throughout Eastern Europe.
peoples.
Study the map, review history and you'll see that this presence,
It has been said that peace is not the work of a single day,
with the Soviet Union's natural advantage of geography, can-
nor will it be the consequence of a single act. Yet every con-
not be ignored. So even if forces are significantly reduced on
structive act contributes to its growth; every omission impedes
both sides, a noble goal indeed, we will remain in Europe as
it. Peace will come, in the end, as a child grows to maturity -
long as our friends want and need us.
slowly, until we realize one day in incredulous surprise that the
Off the island nation of Malta, Mikhail Gorbachev and I will
child is almost grown.
begin the work of years. We can help the peoples of Europe
It is our hope that Malta will be such a constructive act -
achieve a new destiny, in a peaceful Europe whole and free. I
guiding brave pilgrims on their journey to a new world of
will tell President Gorbachev, the dynamic architect of Soviet
freedom.
Poland
SOLIDARITY AND FREEDOM
By LECH WALESA, Chairman, Solidarnosc
Delivered before the Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1989
M
R. SPEAKER, Mr. President, members of the Cab-
ican democracy: "government of the people, by the people, for
inet, distinguished Members of the House and Sen-
the people."
ate, ladies and gentlemen, "We the people
With
I too remember these words; I, a shipyard worker from
these words I wish to begin my address. I do not need to
Gdansk, who has devoted his entire life - along with other
remind anyone here where these words come from. And I do
members of the Solidarity movement - to the service of this
not need to explain that I, an electrician from Gdansk, am also
idea: "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
entitled to invoke them.
Against privilege and monopoly, against violations of the law,
"We the people.
against the trampling of human dignity, against contempt and
I stand before you as the third foreign non-head-of-state
injustice.
iinvited to address the joint Houses of Congress of the United
Such in fact are the principles and values - reminiscent of
States. The Congress, which for many people in the world,
Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers of the American
oppressed and stripped of their rights, is a beacon of freedom
Republic, and also of the principles and ideas of the American
and a bulwark of human rights. And here I stand before you,
Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution
to speak to America in the name of my nation. To speak to
- that are pursued by the great movement of Polish Solidar-
citizens of the country and the continent whose threshold is
ity; a movement that is effective. I know that Americans are
guarded by the famous Statue of Liberty. It is for me an honor
idealistic, but at the same time practical people endowed with
so great, a moment so solemn, that I can find nothing to com-
common sense and capable of logical action. They combine
pare it with.
these features with a belief in the ultimate victory of right over
The people in Poland link the name of the United States
wrong. But they prefer effective work to making speeches. And
with freedom and democracy, with generosity and high-mind-
I understand them very well. I, too, am not too fond of speeches.
edness, with human friendship and friendly humanity. I realize
I prefer facts and work. I treasure effectiveness.
that not everywhere in the world is America so perceived. I
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the fundamental, most impor-
speak of her image in Poland. This image was strengthened by
tant fact I want to tell you about. I want to tell you that the
numerous favorable historical experiences, and it is a very
social movement bearing the beautiful name of Solidarity, born
well-known thing that Poles repay warmheartedness in kind.
of the Polish Nation, is an effective movement. After many
The world remembers the wonderful principle of the Amer-
long years of struggle it bore fruit which is there for all to see.
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133
It pointed to a direction and a way of action which are today
gers. If there is something threatening European stability
affecting the lives of millions of people speaking different lan-
today, it certainly is not Poland. Poland's drive toward pro-
guages. It has swayed monopolies, overturning some alto-
found transformations, transformations achieved through
gether. It has opened up entirely new horizons.
peaceful means, through evolution, negotiated with all the
And this struggle was conducted without resorting to vio-
parties concerned, makes it possible to avoid the worst pitfalls,
lence of any kind - a point that cannot be stressed too much.
and may be held up as a model for many other regions. And
We were being locked up in prison, deprived of our jobs, beaten
as we know, changes elsewhere are not so peaceful.
and sometimes killed. And we did not so much as strike a
Peacefully and prudently, with their eyes open to dangers,
single person. We did not destroy anything. We did not smash
but not giving up what is right and necessary, the Poles grad-
a single windowpane. But we were stubborn, very stubborn,
ually paved the way for historic transformations. We are joined
ready to suffer, to make sacrifices. We knew what we wanted.
along this way, albeit to various extents, by others: Hungarians
And our power prevailed in the end.
and Russians, the Ukrainians and people of the Baltic Repub-
The movement called Solidarity received massive support
lics, Armenians and Georgians, and, in recent days, the East
and scored victories because at all times and in all matters it
Germans. We wish them luck and rejoice at each success they
opted for the better, more human, and more dignified solu-
achieve. We are certain that others will also take our road,
tion, standing against brutality and hate. It was a consistent
since there is no other choice.
movement, stubborn, never giving up. And that is why after all
So I ask now: Is there any sensible man understanding the
these hard years, marked by so many tragic moments, Soli-
world around him who could now say that it would be better
darity is today succeeding and showing the way to millions of
if the Poles kept quiet because what they are doing is jeopar-
people in Poland and other countries.
dizing world peace? Couldn't we rather say that Poles are
Ladies and Gentlemen, it was 10 years ago, in August 1980,
doing more to preserve and consolidate peace than many of
that there began in the Gdansk shipyard the famous strike
their frightened advisers? Could we not say that stability and
which led to the emergence of the first independent trade
peace face greater threats from countries which have not yet
union in Communist countries, which soon became a vast social
brought themselves to carry out long-ranging and comprehen-
movement supported by the Polish Nation. I was 10 years
sive reforms, which do their utmost to preserve the old and
younger then, unknown to anybody but my friends in the ship-
disgraced ways of government, contrary to the wishes of their
yard, and somewhat slimmer. And I must frankly say, it was
societies?
important. An unemployed man at that time, fired from my
Things are different in Poland. And I must say that our task
job for earlier attempts to organize workers in the fight for
is viewed with understanding by our eastern neighbors and
their rights, I jumped over the shipyard wall and rejoined my
their leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. This understanding lays foun-
colleagues who promptly appointed me the leader of the strike.
dations for new relations between Poland and the U.S.S.R.
This is how it all began. When I recall the road we have trav-
much better than before. These improved mutual relations
eled I often think of that jump over the fence. Now others
will also contribute to stabilization and peace in Europe,
jump fences and tear down walls, they do it because freedom
removing useless tensions. Poles have had a long and difficult
is a human right.
history, and no one wants peaceful coexistence and friendship
But there is also another reflection that comes to my mind
with all nations and countries - and particularly with the
when I think of the road behind us. In those days, at the
Soviet Union - more than we do. We believe that it is only
beginning, many warnings, admonitions, and even condemna-
now that the right and favorable conditions for such coexist-
tions were reaching us from many parts of the world. "What
ence and friendship are emerging.
are those Poles up to?" we heard. "They are mad, they are
Poland is making an important contribution to a better
jeopardizing world peace and European stability. They ought
future for Europe, to a European reconciliation - also to the
to stay quiet and not get on anybody's nerves."
vastly important Polish-German reconciliation - to overcom-
We gathered from those voices that the other nations have
ing of old divisions and to strengthening of human rights on
the right to live in comfort and well-being, they have the right
our continent. But it does not come easily for Poland.
to democracy and freedom, and it is only the Poles who should
In the Second World War Poland was the first country to
give up these rights so as not to disturb the peace of others.
fall victim to aggression. Her losses in terms of human life
In the days before the Second World War there were many
and national property were the heaviest. Her fight was the
people who asked: Why should we die for Gdansk? Isn't it
longest; she was always a dedicated member of the victorious
better to stay at home? But war soon paid them a visit, and
alliance; and her soldiers fought in all the war's theaters. In
they had to start dying for Paris, for London, for Hawaii. This
1945 Poland, theoretically speaking, was one of the victors.
time, too, there were many who complained: There is that
Theory, however, had little in common with practice. In prac-
Gdansk again disturbing our peace.
tice, as her allies looked on in tacit consent, there was imposed
But the recent developments in Gdansk carried a different
on Poland an alien system of government, without precedent
message. This was not the beginning but the true end of that
in Polish tradition, unaccepted by the nation, together with
war. This was the beginning of a new, better, democratic and
an alien economy, an alien law, and alien philosophy of social
safe era in the history of our world. There is no longer a ques-
relations. The legal Polish Government, recognized by the
tion of dying for Gdansk, but of living for it.
nation and leading the struggle of all Poles throughout the
Looking at what is happening around us today we may state
war was condemned, and those who remained faithful to it
positively that the Polish road of struggle for human rights,
were subjected to the most ruthless persecution. Many were
struggle without violence, the Polish stubbornness and firm-
murdered, thousands vanished somewhere in Russia's east
ness in the quest for pluralism and democracy show many
and north. Similar repression befell soldiers of the under-
people today, and even nations, how to avoid the greatest dan-
ground army fighting the Nazis. It is only now that we are
134
VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY
discovering their bones in unmarked graves scattered among
and by sea, by boat and by plane, swimming and walking across
forests.
borders. This is a mass-scale phenomenon, well known in
These atrocities were followed by persecutions of all those
Europe, Asia, and Central America.
who dared think independently. All the solemn pledges about
But Poland entered its new road and will never be turned
free elections in Poland that were made in Yalta were broken.
back. The sense of our work and struggle in Poland lies in our
This was the second great national catastrophe, following
creating situations and prospects that would hold Poles back
the one of 1939. When other nations were joyously celebrating
from seeking a place for themselves abroad, that would encour-
victory, Poland was again sinking into mourning. The aware-
age them to seek meaning in their work and a hope for a better
ness of this tragedy was doubly bitter, as the Poles realized that
future in their own country, their own home.
they had been abandoned by their allies. The memory of this
One hears sometimes that people in Poland do not care to
is still strong in the minds of many.
work well. But even those who say this, know that Poles work
Nonetheless, the Poles took to rebuilding their devastated
well and effectively if only they see the sense and usefulness of
country and in the first years following the war they were highly
their toil. The working people know their arithmetic too. They
successful. But soon a new economic system was introduced,
are working much harder and in worse conditions than their
in which individual entrepreneurship ceased to exist and the
opposite numbers abroad, and on top of that are paid much
entire economy ended up in the hands of a state run by people
lower wages. The economic system around them is absurd. To
who were not elected by the nation. Stalin forbade Poland to
make matters worse, every several or dozen year's the country
use aid provided by the Marshall plan, the aid that was used
has suffered a new crisis, a new crunch, and time and time
by everyone in Western Europe, including countries which lost
again it turned out that past efforts went to waste. Show me
the war. It is worth recalling this great American plan which
people who would have worked well, stuck for decades under
helped Western Europe to protect its freedom and peaceful
such a system. Wouldn't they too have succumbed to pessi-
order. And now it is the moment when Eastern Europe awaits
mism? But I wish no one experiences such as these.
an investment of this kind - an investment in freedom, democ-
This system had to be changed. And the Poles took it upon
racy, and peace - an investment adequate to the greatness of
themselves to change it.
the American Nation.
I know that America has her own problems and difficulties,
The Poles have traveled a long way. It would be worthwhile
some of them very serious. We are not asking for charity. We
for all those commenting on Poland, often criticizing Poland,
are not expecting philanthropy. But we would like to see our
to bear in mind that whatever Poland has achieved she achieved
country treated as a partner and a friend. We would like coop-
through her own effort, through her own stubbornness, her
eration under decent and favorable conditions. We would like
own relentlessness. Everything was achieved thanks to the
Americans to come to us with proposals of cooperation bring-
unflinching faith of our nation in human dignity and in what
ing benefits to both sides.
is described as the values of Western culture and civilization.
We believe that assistance extended to democracy and free-
Our nation knows well the price of all this.
dom in Poland and all of Eastern Europe is the best invest-
Ladies and gentlemen, for the past 50 years the Polish nation
ment in the future and in peace, better than tanks, warships,
has been engaged in a difficult and exhausting battle. First to
and war planes, an investment leading to greater security.
preserve its very biological existence, later to save its national
Poland has already done much to patch up the divisions
identity. In both instances Polish determination won the day.
existing in Europe, to create better and more optimistic pros-
Today Poland is rejoining the family of democratic and plu-
pects. Poland's efforts are viewed with sympathetic interest by
ralistic countries, returning to the tradition of religious and
the West - and for this thanks are in order. We believe that
European values.
the West's contribution to this process will grow now. We have
For the first time in half a century Poland has a non-
heard many beautiful words of encouragement. These are
Communist and independent government, supported by the
appreciated, but, being a worker and a man of concrete work,
nation.
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market
But on our path there looms a serious obstacle, a grave
is plentiful, but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words
danger. Our long subjection to a political system incompatible
now.
with national traditions, to a system of economy incompatible
The decision by the Congress of the United States about
with rationality and common sense, coupled with the stifling of
granting economic aid to my country opens a new road. For
independent thought and disregard for national interests -
this wonderful decision, I thank you warmly. I promise you that
all this has led the Polish economy to ruin, to the verge of utter
this aid will not be wasted, and will never be forgotten.
catastrophe. The first government in 50 years elected by the
Ladies and gentlemen, from this podium, I'm expressing
people and serving the people has inherited from the previous
words of gratitude to the American people. It is they who
rulers of the country a burden of an economy organized in a
supported us in the difficult days of martial law and persecu-
manner preventing it from satisfying even the basic needs of
tion. It is they who sent us aid, they protested against violence.
the people.
Today, when I am able to freely address the whole world from
The economy we inherited after almost five decades of
this elevated spot, I would like to thank them with special
Communist rule is in need of thorough overhaul. This will
warmth.
require patience and great sacrifice. This will require time and
It is thanks to them that the word "Solidarity" soared across
means. The present condition of the Polish economy is not
borders and reached every corner of the world. Thanks to
due to chance, and is not a specifically Polish predicament. All
them the people of Solidarity were never alone. In this chain
the countries of the Eastern bloc are bankrupt. The Commu-
of people linked in solidarity there were many, very many
nist economy has failed in every part of the world. One result
Americans. I wish to mention here with warm gratitude our
of this is the exodus of the citizens of those countries, by land
friends from the United States Congress, the AFL-CIO trade
SAM NUNN
135
unions, from the institutions and foundations supporting free-
sage of freedom to Poland, to Europe, to the world.
dom and democracy, and all those who lent us support in our
Pope John Paul II once said:
most difficult moments. They live in all States, in small and
"Freedom is not just something to have and to use, it
large communities of your vast country. I thank all those who
is something to be fought for. One must use freedom to
through the airwaves or printed word spread the truth. I also
build with it personal life as well as the life of the nation."
wish to say thank you and to greet all Polish Americans who
I think this weighty thought can equally well be applied to
maintain warm contacts with their old fatherland. Their sup-
Poland and to America.
port was always priceless for us. And the support of American
I wish all of you to know and to keep in mind that the ideals
Polish was always tremendously worth it to us.
which underlie this glorious American Republic and which are
Wholeheartedly thank the President of the United States
still alive here, are also living in faraway Poland. And although
and his administration for involvement in my country's affairs.
for many long years efforts were made to cut Poland off from
I will never forget the then Vice President George Bush
these ideals, Poland held her ground and is now reaching for
speaking in Warsaw over the tomb of the Reverend Jerzy
the freedom to which she is justly entitled. Together with
Popieluszko, the martyr for Poland. And I will not forget
Poland, other nations of Eastern Europe are following this
President George Bush speaking in Gdansk in front of the
path. The wall that was separating people from freedom has
monument of the Fallen Shipyard Workers. It's from there
collapsed. And I hope that the nations of the world will never
that the President of the United States was sending a mes-
let it be rebuilt.
Challenges to NATO in the 1990s
A TIME FOR RESOLVE AND VISION
By SAM NUNN, U.S. Senator from Georgia
Delivered before the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, England, September 4, 1989
T
HANK YOU, Sir Michael. Members of the Council,
arms control negotiations to reduce Warsaw Pact forces to
members of the Institute, and distinguished guests, I
levels of parity with NATO? (Interestingly enough, the uni-
am deeply honored to be asked to deliver the Alastair
lateral reductions that Gorbachev has announced were - and
Buchan Memorial Lecture for 1989. It is a personal privilege
will if carried out - exceed the most ambitious goal that NATO
for me to follow in the footsteps of the distinguished states-
ever proposed in fourteen years of Mutual and Balanced Force
men and strategic thinkers who have delivered this lecture
Reduction (MBFR) talks. And that's the scope of it.)
since its inception in 1976.
- And who in 1976 would have thought that by the end of the
As I view it, this annual lecture is a fitting tribute and tes-
1980s twelve European nations would be on the threshold of
tament to the man who helped create IISS and served as its
realizing the Community's dream of a single market in which the
first Director. Alastair Buchan was a leader of resolve and
border between France and Germany will be no greater a barrier
vision. "Somewhere between the hawks and doves," wrote one
to economic activity than the border between my home state of
biographer, "he hoped to find a position that would keep the
Georgia and the state of Florida or the state of Alabama?
peace." The strong reputation this institute enjoys throughout
If continued, these profound changes will lead to a funda-
the world today for precise, impartial and objective analysis is
mental restructuring of the European security system. In this
a tribute to Alastair Buchan's original vision of the IISS and
new environment, as I view it, the danger to NATO is not that
the important role it could play - and indeed has played -
it will fall apart, but that it will be increasingly seen as irrel-
within the international community, and particularly the stra-
evant. If NATO is not to become an anachronism, it must
tegic-military-foreign policy community.
demonstrate resolve and vision in serving not only as a force
Even for men as far-sighted as Alastair Buchan, the changes
of stability but also as an instrument for change.
we are now witnessing in the political and security landscape
The Alliance's first challenge is to develop an appropriate
in Europe would have seemed virtually impossible at the time
strategy for responding to change in the Soviet Union and
of his death thirteen years ago.
Eastern Europe. Neither we - nor probably even President
- In 1976, who could have imagined that Poland would freely
Gorbachev himself - can predict confidently the future course
elect a non-communist Catholic Prime Minister, or that the
of reform in the Soviet Union.
leader of the Soviet Union would urge the Polish Communist
We also cannot ignore the fact that Soviet military capabil-
Party to cooperate with a Solidarity-led coalition in governing
ities remain formidable today, and that reductions beyond
the country?
those announced by President Gorbachev last December are
- Who could have imagined at that time that Andrey
still a matter of negotiation. Equal conventional ceilings are
Sakharov would be released from exile in Gorky, be elected a
still not even a matter of treaty obligation, let alone a matter
member of the Soviet parliament, and then become co-leader
of treaty implementation.
of a parliamentary faction opposed to the official primacy of
Moreover, while a return to a more hostile Soviet foreign
the Communist Party?
policy seems unlikely in the near-term, one cannot say it is
- Who could have imagined at that time that the Soviet
impossible. As the Librarian of Congress of the United States,
Union would begin a unilateral withdrawal of six tank divisions
James Billington, recently pointed out before our Armed Ser-
from Eastern Europe and would agree in principle in on-going
vices Committee:
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HEADLINE: Walesa Meets Congress Leaders
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SOURCE: Zycie Warszawy No. 69, 22 March 1991 p.1
... But 50 are they for President Bush. "I am raising a toast today to the
most popular politician in Poland - to President George Bush," said Walesa
in a ceremonial toast speech [for both speeches - see below].
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throughout Eastern Europe, smiled as he met Bush on the South Lawn of the
White House. Walesa ended his speech in Polish by saying in English to Bush:
"God bless you, Mr. President. God bless America."
Walesa said Bush's action will relieve "a major part of our debt burden."
"Your personal involvement in this course has for
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"I invite you to this cooperation, for it is going to be advantageous to
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slashing $2.6 billion from Poland's debt to the United States and told him he
was ''the most popular politician in Poland.
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Walesa made the remarks in a toast at a state dinner following a busy
day of talks with the White House and State
encourage American business to invest in Poland.
'We want your economic transformation to succeed, your new democracy to
flourish, Bush said on the arrival of the Polish president who as leader
of the Solidarity movement led a popular revolt in Poland that ousted a
decades-long communist rule.
In his toast to Walesa, Bush said: 'Tonight America salutes you as an
apostle of peace throughout the world. You have defined your time; you've been
resolute in defeat and
Proprietary to the United Press International, March 20, 1991
Walesa made the remarks in a toast at a state dinner following a busy
day of talks with the White House and State
encourage American business to invest in Poland.
'We want your economic transformation to succeed, your new democracy to
flourish, Bush said on the arrival of the Polish president who as leader
of the Solidarity movement led a popular revolt in Poland that ousted a
decades-long communist rule.
In his toast to Walesa, Bush said: ''Tonight America salutes you as an
apostle of peace throughout the world. You have defined your time; you've been
resolute in defeat and
in Central Europe to stet upon the path of freedom which paved the
way for other nations to liberate themselves from communism.
Walesa's remarks were translated into English. But in conclusion, he tried
out the language on his own, saying, ''God bless you, Mr. President, and
'God bless America.
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Excerpts From Remarks by Walesa and Bush at
GDANSK, Poland, July 11 (AP)
Following are excerpts from Lech
Walesa's remarks introducing Presi-
dent Bush at the Solidarity workers
monument today, and from Mr.
Bush's address there. Mr. Walesa's
remarks were translated by an inter-
preter for Mr. Bush.
WALESA'S REMARKS
Mr. President, we are here today
standing at the place which for Poles
is a special one. We are grateful to
you, Mr. President. We are grateful to
Mrs. Bush and all the American offi-
cials who have come here to the
monument of fallen shipyard work-
ers, those who fell for bread and free-
dom.
A dramatic challenge of fate has
caused that this place where one man
shot another, where when men shot
men, is the place where Solidarity
was born.
You are aware, Mr. President, of
our tangled and difficult route which
hasn't run its course yet, for we con-
tinually keep facing very difficult
tasks.
If the bends In that road
have
not discouraged us from action, this
happened to a large extent thanks to
our conviction that we were not alone,
President Bush and Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, at a wreath-laying ceremony yesterday at
that we can count on our friends and
their solidarity with us.
the monument at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk to workers killed in a 1970 strike.
We have found ourselves today in a
situation in which political reform
President. I'm expressing my hope
row and hardship and the dream was
as a beacon of hope.
was necessary because a slave never
and the hope of millions of Poles that
again denied. And yet there were
But the hope, like the dawn, proved
makes a good worker.
you will leave Poland convinced that
glimmers of the long awaited dawn.
fleeting, for under cover of darkness
And also for another reason: be-
our country is worthy of your help
In the summer of 1980, you occu-
the electrician was arrested and your
cause today's progress of civilization
and should be helped.
pied the shipyards where we stand
movement outlawed. And in the Icy
cannot develop in an atmosphere of
I truly believe that the links be-
and a patriotic electrician clambered
cold of a savage winter, a modern na
restraining monopoly.
tween our nations will gain a new
over these Iron gates and emerged as
tion was sealed off from the outside
stimulus, and that more than ever be-
one of the heroes of our times, Lech
world.
Road to Democracy
fore, Solidarity will become a chal-
Walesa.
But still, the dream would not die.
So, we're shaking off that ugly
lenge to Poles and Americans. God
And above your streets a graceful
hump of totalitarian Stalinism, and
bless America and God bless our
momument rose in the tradition of
we're trying to catch up with the rest
homeland.
our own Statue of Liberty to become a
The Time for Poland
of Europe and the whole developed
symbol recognized around the world
world, which is getting farther and
BUSH'S ADDRESS
Your time has come. It is Poland's
farther away from us.
We are heading towards democ-
Poland has a special place in the
racy and pluralism. But all this
American heart and in my heart, and
makes it necessary for us to keep in
when you hurt we feel pain, and when
mind the proportions that must exist
you dream we feel hope, and when
between the reforms in the economic
you succeed we feel joy. It goes far
sphere and those in the political
beyond diplomatic relations, it's
sphere.
more like family relations. And com-
Changes must occur at the same
ing to Poland is like coming home.
time in both of these fields, at the
At th
This special kinship is the kinship
same time and equally. The experi-
of an ancient dream, a recurring
ence of China has taught us a lesson:
dream, the dream of freedom.
If the proportions are not respected,
we will not be able to succeed.
That dream was severely tested
here in Gdansk 50 years ago this sum-
If we want our square, the square of
mer. The predawn quiet of this peace-
Solidarity where we are now, to be
ful Baltic harbor was shattered by
kept in the memory of generations
the thunder from the 15-inch guns of
forever as a place of hope, we must
Nazi warship Schleswig Holstein.
it pays t
all work together to make sure that
Within the hour, Iron Panzers rolled
economic changes follow closely
across the Polish frontier and Europe
those in the political field.
was plunged into darkness that would
engulf the world.
Influence of Work
For Poland the choices were few,
The people who are standing
surrender to tyranny or resist
around the monument today are good
against impossible odds. And in the
Cross
workers, just as the millions of Poles,
brutal fighting that followed, you set
Polish men and women in the United
a standard for courage that will
States as well as the whole of Europe,
never be forgotten.
are trying to help and have an influ-
In World War II Poland lost every-
ence through their economic policy
thing except her honor, except her
the course of our reforms.
dreams. Before Poland fell you gave
It can have millions of hands re-
the Allies Enigma, the Nazi's secret
moved from useless work to have
coding machine. Breaking the un-
solid, sane, healthy, economically
breakable Axis code saved tens of
healthy cooperation to proceed, and
thousands of Allied lives, of American
competition between our enterprises,
lives, and for this you have the endur-
and, finally, it can help the lack of an
ing gratitude of the American people.
effective economic reform, it can pre-
And ultimately, Enigma and freedom
vent it from destabilizing this part of
fighters played a major role in win-
the world.
ning the Second World War.
This would be a threat to Poland as
well as to other countries. It would be
Shipyards and a Symbol
a failure of democracy.
But for you the war's end did not
I attempted to present this point of
end the darkness. The cold war
view orally and in writing to you, Mr.
brought a long and chilly night of sor-
don't feel any resistance, just incompe-
workplace and considers himself a pragma-
and free-market exchange rate for the Pol-
tence." President Wojciech Jaruzelski, the
tist: "Demagoguery is easy when you aren't
ish zloty has dropped dramatically against
general who outlawed Solidarity in 1981,
doing anything. But once you're involved,
the dollar, from 10 to 1 in September to
"realizes that his place in history depends
you see all the problems."
almost 2 to 1 last week, making the govern-
on [the success of] reforms," said Solidarity
The problems are staggering. Housing
ment's goal of achieving a convertible cur-
leader Sen. Bronislaw Geremek.
Minister Aleksander Paszynski echoed a
rency next year look within reach. And
With the Communists fading from the
sentiment I heard in every government
while prices are steep, butcher shops have
picture, Solidarity and other former oppo-
office. "I did not imagine that the economic
begun to fill up with meat.
sition groups are showing internal strains.
situation is so bad, to what extent the sys-
Nonetheless, any attempt to transform a
Within Solidarity, the split is particularly
tem destroyed all normal economic rules,"
state economy is risky. "It's a bit like
acute between its urban and rural constitu-
he said. "We have to rebuild everything."
diving into the water without knowing how
encies. "This is an argument between
He himself must deal with a massive short-
deep it is," says University of Maryland
socialism and liberalism," said Rural Soli-
fall of apartments; creating a genuine real-
economist Bartlomiej Kaminski, who re-
darity spokesman Jacek Szymanderski;
estate market will require new laws. The
cently returned to Warsaw for his first visit
the peasants want free-market solutions
Finance Ministry's Lis faces the same ob-
since emigrating in 1980. On a trip to his
while city dwellers are reluctant to go
stacles in his bid to privatize an economy
constituency in the town of Wyszogrod,
that route. Solidarity's base in heavy in-
dominated by antediluvian state firms.
Sen. Andrzej Celinski was peppered with
dustry makes it awkward to enact reforms
Emotional appeal: But Solidarity's determi-
questions about inflation, shortages and
that would lead to layoffs there. Mean-
nation to push for a radical overhaul of the
the nomenklatura's attempts to "priva-
while, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the Polish
economy is no longer in doubt. This has
tize" state property by seizing it for them-
primate, has endorsed a Christian Demo-
spurred Western governments to start de-
selves. "Please, people, give us a little
cratic movement; Solidarity social demo-
livering on promises of economic aid. After
time," the Solidarity sociologist pleaded.
crats denounce this as reactionary.
Walesa delivered an emotional appeal to a
"If we do not succeed
everyone will be
The movement does contain activists
joint session of Congress last week for "an
able to say we missed our chance."
who can bridge the gap. "This is not the
investment in freedom," Congress ap-
There are bound to be setbacks and an-
time to break apart small groups," said
proved an aid package for Poland and Hun-
gry debates about tactics. But I found Poles
Sen. Zofia Kuratowska, Solidarity's deputy
gary of $938 million-double the Bush ad-
eager to seize the opportunity they created
parliamentary leader. Zbigniew Janas, a
ministration's request. Visiting Poland,
by years of resistance. "The communist
former worker and Solidarity leader at the
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
system has practically disappeared, al-
Ursus tractor factory near Warsaw, now
topped that with a $2.2 billion package.
though we still have to deal with its rem-
represents the district where the plant is
Poland's new economic strategy is al-
nants," said Janas. That is no small task,
located. He hopes to organize joint ven-
ready producing small but encouraging re-
but Poland's new rulers are beginning to
tures to privatize sections of his former
sults. The disparity between the official
think that they just might pull it off.
The Wit and Wisdom of Lech Walesa
come to Poland. It's one place
you can afford to live.
During his first visit to the
ist: he has to launch a pub-
of concrete work, I must tell
To the National Press Club:
United States last week, Soli-
licity campaign for private
you that the supply of words
[The issue of German reunifi-
darity leader Lech Walesa
entrepreneurship.
on the world market is plenti-
cation] is a bomb. We paid a
appealed for U.S. aid and
ful but the demand is falling.
heavy price for the existence
American investment to help
To the U.S. Congress (public ses-
Let deeds follow words now.
of Hitler. I do not need to
transform Poland's socialist
sion): We have heard many
say how heavy There was
system into a market economy.
beautiful words of encourage-
To the Congress (private ses-
a second nation on Polish
At a series of meetings in
ment. These are appreciated,
sion): If the congressional pay-
soil, the Jewish nation, and it
Washington, New York and
but being a worker and a man
raise bill] doesn't go through,
disappeared We should
Chicago, he pleaded his coun-
leave the political situation
try's case with both force and
as it is now.
humor. Examples:
To Newsweek and Washington
To the AFL-CIO: Sometimes
Post editors: How did these re-
I feel we are swimming
forms appear? That's a result
chained hand and foot, trying
of civilization-of computers,
to summon all our energy
satellite TV [and other inno-
just to make it safely to
vations] which present alter-
shore, and on the shore there
native solutions. Satellites
is a cheering crowd of people
can read religious books from
who offer us their admiration
thousands of miles in space. Is
instead of simply throwing a
it possible for a new Stalin to
life belt
I know that in-
appear today who could mur-
vesting money in Poland re-
der people? It's impossible.
quires a bit of courageous
[Mikhail Gorbachev and I]
thinking or maybe even a bit
just happen to be people in the
of imagination
Such
is
the
right time, in the right
fate of a Polish trade union-
'Deeds now: With Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher
situation.
NEWSWEEK NOVEMBER 27, 1989 35
POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE \ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
GOVERNOR EDGAR, ED MOSKAL, ED DYKLA, BISHOP
ZAWISTOWSKI [ZA-VI-STOFF-SKI], FATHER PHILLIPS, ED
DERWINSKI, MICHAL GROCHOLSKI [GROW-HALL-SKI] (CONSUL-
GENERAL OF POLAND IN CHICAGO), LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
THANK YOU FOR THAT WARM CHICAGO WELCOME. SOMEBODY
SUGGESTED THIS VISIT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE
ILLINOIS PRIMARY ELECTION. 11 THAT'S TRUE -- I'M
WORKING TO WIN THAT ELECTION.
- 7A -
I REMEMBER HOW MOVING IT WAS IN 1987 WHEN AS VICE
PRESIDENT I STOOD WITH LECH ON THE BALCONY OF FATHER
POPIELUSZKO'S CHURCH -- FLASHING THE VICTORY SIGN TO
THE THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS BELOW. ONCE AGAIN THE
CHURCH WAS CENTRAL TO THE POLISH PEOPLE'S YEARNING FOR
FREEDOM.
POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE \ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
Brenda
GOVERNOR EDGAR,^ ED MOSKAL, ED DYKLA, BISHOP
ZAWISTOWSKI [ZA-VI-STOFF-SKI], FATHER PHILLIPS, ED
DERWINSKI, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THANK YOU FOR THAT
WARM CHICAGO WELCOME. SOMEBODY SUGGESTED THIS VISIT
HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY ELECTION.
11 THAT'S TRUE -- I'M WORKING TO WIN THAT ELECTION.
Cong. Henry Hyde
Sec. Ed Derwinski
- 2 -
BUT IF ANYONE THINKS WE HAVE POLITICAL HEADACHES HERE
-- THEY'RE NOTHING COMPARED WITH WHAT LECH WALESA HAS
TO GO THROUGH IN POLAND. WE HAVE TWO MAJOR PARTIES.
LOOK AT ALL THE PARTIES HE HAS TO CONTEND WITH -- CLOSE
TO 20 AT LAST COUNT. EVEN THE POLISH BEER DRINKERS'
*
PARTY HAS SPLIT INTO TWO FACTIONS! TRUE STORY! 11
Admirar Howall:
yogostavia
- 3 -
WHENEVER I VISIT HERE, I REMEMBER OTHER OCCASIONS
I'VE HAD TO GET TOGETHER WITH YOUR COMMUNITY: BACK IN
1988 AT THE WAKE FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT OF THE POLISH
NATIONAL ALLIANCE, AL MAZEWSKI [MA-ZEFF-SKI]; AT THE
INAUGURAL CELEBRATION FOR YOUR CURRENT PRESIDENT, ED
MOSKAL; AND AT A VERY BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY MASS AT ST.
HYACINTH'S CHURCH.
- 4 -
THERE I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO JOIN WITH MANY OF YOU IN
PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, AND TO LAY A WREATH AT
THE MEMORIAL FOR THE MARTYR OF SOLIDARITY, FATHER
POPIELUSZKO [Po-PYUSH-Ko].
How OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED IN THOSE FEW
SHORT YEARS. SINCE 1988, OUR WORLD HAS BEEN
TRANSFORMED -- AND THAT CHANGE BEGAN IN POLAND. 11
POLAND OVERTHREW THE CRUEL TYRANNY THAT STALIN IMPOSED
XAFTER YALTA. 11
- 5 -
Now, IMPERIAL COMMUNISM IS DEAD -- AND THE SOVIET UNION
HAS CEASED TO EXIST. III THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR HAS
DIMINISHED DRAMATICALLY. THESE ARE BLESSINGS THAT
MILLIONS OF US HAVE WORKED -- AND PRAYED -- TO ATTAIN.
FOR DECADES WE FACED MORTAL DANGER. THE COMMUNISTS
FOUGHT TO DOMINATE THE WORLD. THE SOVIET UNION
THREATENED THE VERY EXISTENCE OF FREE EUROPE AND THE
UNITED STATES WITH ITS MASSIVE ARMIES AND NUCLEAR
ARSENALS.
- 6 -
THE COMMUNISTS PERSECUTED BELIEVERS AND DEMOLISHED
HOUSES OF WORSHIP. THEY IMPRISONED CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI
[vI-SHIN-SKI] AND MURDERED FATHER POPIELUSZKO.
BUT ALL THE WHILE, BELIEVERS KEPT ON BELIEVING:
STUBBORN BELIEVERS -- WHO SUFFERED EVERY SORT OF
TORMENT IN THE PRISONS AND LABOR CAMPS. PATIENT
BELIEVERS -- WHO THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER LIVE TO SEE THE
ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS.
- 7 -
SIMPLE BELIEVERS -- WHO GRASPED LITTLE OF GEOPOLITICAL
FACTS AND THEORIES, BUT KNEW THEY HELD THE POWER TO
CHANGE THE WORLD IN THEIR FOLDED HANDS.
INSPIRED BY BRAVE LEADERS LIKE LECH WALESA AND POPE
JOHN PAUL, GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON
CURTAIN WORKED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING DEPENDED ON
THEMSELVES -- AND THEY PRAYED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING
DEPENDED ON GOD. 11
- 8 -
WHEN I HAD THE PRIVILEGE IN 1989 AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES TO STAND WITH LECH WALESA AND
THOUSANDS OF FREEDOM-LOVING POLES AT THE GDANSK
SHIPYARD, WHEN I SAW THE FAITH AND COURAGE OF THOSE
PEOPLE -- I KNEW THAT FREEDOM WOULD PREVAIL. 11
EVEN IN THE DARKEST DAYS, WE STOOD STEADFAST FOR
POLAND'S RIGHT TO BE FREE. WE KEPT OUR ALLIANCES
STRONG. WE GAVE HUMANITARIAN AID TO SOLIDARITY WHEN IT
WAS NEEDED THE MOST.
- 9 -
TODAY WE CONTINUE To GIVE ASSISTANCE, HELPING POLAND
BUILD A STABLE DEMOCRACY AND A PROSPERING ECONOMY. IN
ADDITION TO THE SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL AID, I UNDERSTAND
THE ONE THOUSANDTH CARGO CONTAINER OF AMERICAN
HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES WAS JUST SENT ON ITS WAY TO
POLAND. AND I'VE JUST WRITTEN LECH WALESA TO OFFER
FURTHER HELP IN BRINGING MORE AMERICAN INVESTMENT TO
POLAND.
- 10 -
JUST AS IMPORTANT HAS BEEN THE VOLUNTARY HELP FROM
THE CHURCH, FROM ORGANIZED LABOR, AND FROM THE POLISH-
AMERICAN COMMUNITY. HISTORY WILL HONOR THE ROLE OF THE
POLONIA -- THE WORLDWIDE POLISH COMMUNITY -- FOR GIVING
BIRTH TO A NEW AGE OF FREEDOM. AND TO SYMBOLIZE THIS,
THIS YEAR WE WILL FULFILL THE DYING WISH OF IGNACY
PADEREWSKI [PA-DER-EFF-SKI] AND SEND HIS REMAINS FOR
BURIAL IN THE SACRED SOIL OF A FREE POLAND. 11
- 11 -
THE WORLD IS SAFER AND FREER NOW, BUT WE MUST NOT
FORGET THOSE WHO STILL HAVE NOT WON FULL FREEDOM. I
THINK ESPECIALLY OF THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF THOSE REPUBLICS
OF A DISINTEGRATING YUGOSLAVIA WHO ARE SEEKING TO
ESTABLISH THEIR SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENCE. As WE TOLD OUR
EUROPEAN ALLIES LAST WEEK, WE ARE GIVING POSITIVE
CONSIDERATION To THE RECOGNITION OF SLOVENIA AND
CROATIA.
- 12 -
WE ALSO ARE CONSIDERING THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO
MEET THE DESIRE FOR PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENCE
ON THE PART OF THE OTHER REPUBLICS.
OUR LEADERSHIP FOR FREEDOM MUST CONTINUE. You KNOW
THAT: No ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN POLISH-AMERICANS THE
REWARDS OF STAYING STRONG AND ENGAGED IN THE WORLD. No
ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU THE TRAGIC HARM THAT COMES
FROM WEAKNESS AND ISOLATIONISM.
- 13 -
WE'LL KEEP WORKING TOGETHER. WE'LL SECURE THE PEACE
AND WIN NEW PROSPERITY -- FOR POLAND AND ALL THE FREE
WORLD.
WE MUST CONTINUE CHANGING THE WORLD -- AND WE MUST
REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO CHANGE AMERICA FOR THE BETTER.
GET OUR ECONOMY GOING AGAIN -- CREATE GOOD JOBS.
STRENGTHEN OUR FAMILIES. PUT LIMITS ON BIG GOVERNMENT.
- 14 -
LET ME CLOSE WITH A FABLE ABOUT LIBERAL SOCIAL
PLANNERS THAT REMINDS ME OF LECH WALESA'S DOWN-TO-EARTH
HUMOR. IT'S A STORY RUSSIANS USED TO TELL DURING THE
LAST DAYS OF COMMUNISM:
A FARMER'S CHICKENS WERE DYING. So FOR HELP HE
WENT TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY HACK WHO WAS THE LOCAL
AGRICULTURE COMMISSAR. THE COMMISSAR SAID, "GIVE THEM
ASPIRIN." AND OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, 50 CHICKENS
DIED.
- 15 -
THE COMMISSAR THEN SAID, "GIVE THEM PENICILLIN." AND
IN A FEW DAYS, A HUNDRED MORE CHICKENS DIED. So THE
COMMISSAR ADVISED CASTOR OIL. AFTER THE CASTOR OIL
THERAPY, THE FARMER WENT TO THE COMMISSAR AND ANNOUNCED
THAT ALL THE REMAINING CHICKENS HAD DIED. "WHAT A
PITY! WHAT A PITY!" THE COMMISSAR SAID. "I HAD so
MANY OTHER IDEAS I WANTED TO TRY!" 1111
- 16 -
WELL LET ME TELL YOU: As LONG AS I'M PRESIDENT,
AMERICAN FAMILIES WILL NOT BE GUINEA PIGS FOR SOCIAL
PLANNERS. 11 WE WILL KEEP FAMILY, DIGNITY, WORK, AND
RESPONSIBILITY FIRST -- AND WE'LL MAKE THIS COUNTRY
BETTER. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON FAMILY, FAITH AND
FREEDOM -- AND WE MUST RENEW THOSE SOURCES OF OUR
STRENGTH. As BARBARA AND I COUNT OUR MANY BLESSINGS,
WE KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON POLISH-AMERICANS TO MOVE OUR
COUNTRY FORWARD TO NEW GLORIES.
- 17 -
THANK YOU. MAY GOD BLESS POLAND AND THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA -- LANDS OF THE FREE AND HOMES OF THE BRAVE.
# # #
POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE \ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1992
GOVERNOR EDGAR, ED MOSKAL, ED DYKLA, BISHOP
ZAWISTOWSKI [ZA-VI-STOFF-SKI], FATHER PHILLIPS, ED
DERWINSKI, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THANK YOU FOR THAT
WARM CHICAGO WELCOME. SOMEBODY SUGGESTED THIS VISIT
HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY ELECTION.
11 THAT'S TRUE -- I'M WORKING TO WIN THAT ELECTION.
- 2 -
BUT IF ANYONE THINKS WE HAVE POLITICAL HEADACHES HERE
-- THEY'RE NOTHING COMPARED WITH WHAT LECH WALESA HAS
TO GO THROUGH IN POLAND. WE HAVE TWO MAJOR PARTIES.
LOOK AT ALL THE PARTIES HE HAS TO CONTEND WITH -- CLOSE
TO 20 AT LAST COUNT. EVEN THE POLISH BEER DRINKERS'
PARTY HAS SPLIT INTO TWO FACTIONS! TRUE STORY!
11
- 3 -
WHENEVER I VISIT HERE, I REMEMBER OTHER OCCASIONS
I'VE HAD TO GET TOGETHER WITH YOUR COMMUNITY: BACK IN
1988 AT THE WAKE FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT OF THE POLISH
NATIONAL ALLIANCE, AL MAZEWSKI [MA-ZEFF-SKI]; AT THE
INAUGURAL CELEBRATION FOR YOUR CURRENT PRESIDENT, ED
MOSKAL; AND AT A VERY BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY MASS AT ST.
HYACINTH'S CHURCH.
- 4 -
THERE I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO JOIN WITH MANY OF YOU IN
PRAYERS FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, AND TO LAY A WREATH AT
THE MEMORIAL FOR THE MARTYR OF SOLIDARITY, FATHER
POPIELUSZKO [po-PYUSH-Ko].
How OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED IN THOSE FEW
SHORT YEARS. SINCE 1988, OUR WORLD HAS BEEN
TRANSFORMED -- AND THAT CHANGE BEGAN IN POLAND. 11
POLAND OVERTHREW THE CRUEL TYRANNY THAT STALIN IMPOSED
AFTER YALTA. 11
- 5 -
Now, IMPERIAL COMMUNISM IS DEAD -- AND THE SOVIET UNION
HAS CEASED TO EXIST. 111 THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR HAS
DIMINISHED DRAMATICALLY. THESE ARE BLESSINGS THAT
MILLIONS OF US HAVE WORKED -- AND PRAYED -- TO ATTAIN.
FOR DECADES WE FACED MORTAL DANGER. THE COMMUNISTS
FOUGHT TO DOMINATE THE WORLD. THE SOVIET UNION
THREATENED THE VERY EXISTENCE OF FREE EUROPE AND THE
UNITED STATES WITH ITS MASSIVE ARMIES AND NUCLEAR
ARSENALS.
- 6 -
THE COMMUNISTS PERSECUTED BELIEVERS AND DEMOLISHED
HOUSES OF WORSHIP. THEY IMPRISONED CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI
[vI-SHIN-SKI] AND MURDERED FATHER POPIELUSZKO.
BUT ALL THE WHILE, BELIEVERS KEPT ON BELIEVING:
STUBBORN BELIEVERS -- WHO SUFFERED EVERY SORT OF
TORMENT IN THE PRISONS AND LABOR CAMPS. PATIENT
BELIEVERS -- WHO THOUGHT THEY'D NEVER LIVE TO SEE THE
ANSWER TO THEIR PRAYERS.
- 7 -
SIMPLE BELIEVERS -- WHO GRASPED LITTLE OF GEOPOLITICAL
FACTS AND THEORIES, BUT KNEW THEY HELD THE POWER TO
CHANGE THE WORLD IN THEIR FOLDED HANDS.
INSPIRED BY BRAVE LEADERS LIKE LECH WALESA AND POPE
JOHN PAUL, GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON
CURTAIN WORKED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING DEPENDED ON
THEMSELVES -- AND THEY PRAYED AS THOUGH EVERYTHING
DEPENDED ON GOD. 11
- 8 -
WHEN I HAD THE PRIVILEGE IN 1989 AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES TO STAND WITH LECH WALESA AND
THOUSANDS OF FREEDOM-LOVING POLES AT THE GDANSK
SHIPYARD, WHEN I SAW THE FAITH AND COURAGE OF THOSE
PEOPLE -- I KNEW THAT FREEDOM WOULD PREVAIL. 11
EVEN IN THE DARKEST DAYS, WE STOOD STEADFAST FOR
POLAND'S RIGHT TO BE FREE. WE KEPT OUR ALLIANCES
STRONG. WE GAVE HUMANITARIAN AID TO SOLIDARITY WHEN IT
WAS NEEDED THE MOST.
- 9 -
TODAY WE CONTINUE TO GIVE ASSISTANCE, HELPING POLAND
BUILD A STABLE DEMOCRACY AND A PROSPERING ECONOMY. IN
ADDITION TO THE SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL AID, I UNDERSTAND
THE ONE THOUSANDTH CARGO CONTAINER OF AMERICAN
HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES WAS JUST SENT ON ITS WAY TO
POLAND. AND I'VE JUST WRITTEN LECH WALESA TO OFFER
FURTHER HELP IN BRINGING MORE AMERICAN INVESTMENT TO
POLAND.
- 10 -
JUST AS IMPORTANT HAS BEEN THE VOLUNTARY HELP FROM
THE CHURCH, FROM ORGANIZED LABOR, AND FROM THE POLISH-
AMERICAN COMMUNITY. HISTORY WILL HONOR THE ROLE OF THE
POLONIA -- THE WORLDWIDE POLISH COMMUNITY -- FOR GIVING
BIRTH TO A NEW AGE OF FREEDOM. AND TO SYMBOLIZE THIS,
THIS YEAR WE WILL FULFILL THE DYING WISH OF IGNACY
PADEREWSKI [PA-DER-EFF-SKI] AND SEND HIS REMAINS FOR
BURIAL IN THE SACRED SOIL OF A FREE POLAND. 11
- 11 -
THE WORLD IS SAFER AND FREER NOW, BUT WE MUST NOT
FORGET THOSE WHO STILL HAVE NOT WON FULL FREEDOM. I
THINK ESPECIALLY OF THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF THOSE REPUBLICS
OF A DISINTEGRATING YUGOSLAVIA WHO ARE SEEKING To
ESTABLISH THEIR SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENCE. As WE TOLD OUR
EUROPEAN ALLIES LAST WEEK, WE ARE GIVING POSITIVE
CONSIDERATION TO THE RECOGNITION OF SLOVENIA AND
CROATIA.
- 12 -
WE ALSO ARE CONSIDERING THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS To
MEET THE DESIRE FOR PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENCE
ON THE PART OF THE OTHER REPUBLICS.
OUR LEADERSHIP FOR FREEDOM MUST CONTINUE. You KNOW
THAT: No ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN POLISH-AMERICANS THE
REWARDS OF STAYING STRONG AND ENGAGED IN THE WORLD. No
ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU THE TRAGIC HARM THAT COMES
FROM WEAKNESS AND ISOLATIONISM.
- 13 -
WE'LL KEEP WORKING TOGETHER. WE'LL SECURE THE PEACE
AND WIN NEW PROSPERITY -- FOR POLAND AND ALL THE FREE
WORLD.
WE MUST CONTINUE CHANGING THE WORLD -- AND WE MUST
REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO CHANGE AMERICA FOR THE BETTER.
GET OUR ECONOMY GOING AGAIN -- CREATE GOOD JOBS.
STRENGTHEN OUR FAMILIES. PUT LIMITS ON BIG GOVERNMENT.
- 14 -
LET ME CLOSE WITH A FABLE ABOUT LIBERAL SOCIAL
PLANNERS THAT REMINDS ME OF LECH WALESA'S DOWN-TO-EARTH
HUMOR. IT'S A STORY RUSSIANS USED TO TELL DURING THE
LAST DAYS OF COMMUNISM:
A FARMER'S CHICKENS WERE DYING. So FOR HELP HE
WENT TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY HACK WHO WAS THE LOCAL
AGRICULTURE COMMISSAR. THE COMMISSAR SAID, "GIVE THEM
ASPIRIN." AND OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, 50 CHICKENS
DIED.
- 15 -
THE COMMISSAR THEN SAID, "GIVE THEM PENICILLIN." AND
IN A FEW DAYS, A HUNDRED MORE CHICKENS DIED. So THE
COMMISSAR ADVISED CASTOR OIL. AFTER THE CASTOR OIL
THERAPY, THE FARMER WENT TO THE COMMISSAR AND ANNOUNCED
THAT ALL THE REMAINING CHICKENS HAD DIED. "WHAT A
PITY! WHAT A PITY!" THE COMMISSAR SAID. "I HAD so
MANY OTHER IDEAS I WANTED TO TRY!" 1111
- 16 -
WELL LET ME TELL YOU: As LONG AS I'M PRESIDENT,
AMERICAN FAMILIES WILL NOT BE GUINEA PIGS FOR SOCIAL
PLANNERS. 11 WE WILL KEEP FAMILY, DIGNITY, WORK, AND
RESPONSIBILITY FIRST -- AND WE'LL MAKE THIS COUNTRY
BETTER. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON FAMILY, FAITH AND
FREEDOM -- AND WE MUST RENEW THOSE SOURCES OF OUR
STRENGTH. As BARBARA AND I COUNT OUR MANY BLESSINGS,
WE KNOW WE CAN COUNT ON POLISH-AMERICANS TO MOVE OUR
COUNTRY FORWARD TO NEW GLORIES.
- 17 -
THANK YOU. MAY GOD BLESS POLAND AND THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA -- LANDS OF THE FREE AND HOMES OF THE BRAVE.
# # #