Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-26
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out with q girl to q cafe or
restaurant. to have drink.
From abroad they can bring her
q scarf or nylonS- treasures for
any girl. ] didn't have regular
girl friend. / was in the army
for the lastitwo years, and dur
ing the last few months / was
unemployed, sad and bitter. I
didn't even have time to look
around. ] don't regret it now.
because If I had had girl it
would have been difficult for me
to leave Poland.
When ashore ] spent my free
time with my family. but. many
sailors. Polish and foreign, hang
around the port or in the res
taurants. But this is an expen-
sive business for a Pole. I very
rarely went into those restau-
rants which are the meeting
places for all the worst elements
in Poland today: regular drunk
ards. black marketeers. police
agents. either spying or enjoying
themselves, and prostitutes.
The problem of prostitution in
Poland is a very peculiar one.
Officially it is prohibited and the
regime says that it has been
wiped out. At the same time in
such restaurants in Gdynia as
Morska, Interklub, Korea or Gen.
tralna you can see many prosti-
tutes. Many are said to be UB
agents seeking secrets from for
eigners and from Poles. How
much they have seen abroad, and
if they were in touch with free
Poles.
Harbor Guards Are Girls.
The so-called harbor guards
are. also girls. We have a joke in
Polish: what is girl from the
port guard?"
well, a girl from the corner
of the street who has gone out
to the middle of the road"
wouldn't like to create the
impression that there are no
decent places in Gdynia. OF
course there are, as the Krakow
ski bar and many others. where
people could have a drink or
meal without being molested. The
family man STAN home. though.
In Gdynia there is a nice Dom
Marynarza - seamen's home -
where when on shore leave, one
could get a room and food. The
house is very modern and prices
are rather moderate. The only
trouble is that the place is con-
trolled entirely by the UB and
every movement of all the in
habitants are closely checked.
It is incredible how deep this
political control goes. Take the
cadets from the Polish merchant
marine school lin Gdynia, for in
stance. They are educated at
state expense, but after they fin-
ish their three or five years of
study, sometimes half of them
never get a permit to sail. Why?
Because they are politically UNI
reliable. The regime doesn't
trust them.
So they are sent to work on
shore.
No New Buildings.
Gdynia doesn't make any
progress. Except In the ship
yards, no new buildings can be
seen in the town. Only the
Polish navy erected a few houses
for its personnel on the eastern
side of the town. Apart from
that the city is as it was before
the war, only neglected, dirty
and generally Nuncared for.
I have left it behind me. Now
I am a free man. Here in Brit
ain rested for few days with
a Polish family. I have seen
many people and am astonished
how free people are here.
They speak in way nobody
in Poland would dare to.
They express their opinions
and thoughts; they criticize
whatever they like. This is some
thing I never INDUCED in in
Poland, and it is a new and
strange experience for me. Now
I am in London staying with
another Free Polish family. I
walk in the streets. nobody mo-
Tests me or snoops upon me. !
know that English policemen
would if necessary defend me
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