TERLECKI Tymon - Poland and the West. An attempt at synthesis [first edition London 1947].

London 1947: Polish Writers' Association. 12.5x18.5 cm, pp. 48, softcover. Very good condition.

First edition.

"If one says Poland and the West, one means: Poland in the circle of the West, educating in it, realizing its cultural personality. It also means: Poland opposing the West in all that was and is in it contrary to the foundations of its culture. It also means: Poland posing to the West patterns of interpersonal and international morality derived from its own ideological assumptions. It means, finally: Poland defending the West against the East, against any cultural opposition that harms the Western system of life, the Western sense of law, the Western instinct for individual and national freedom, the Western type of man." [excerpt]