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Brunswick Press [Published Date: 1995]. Hardcover, 80 pp. Stated First Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with white lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing to edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes a few black and white photo reproductions [From jacket flaps] Poland was one of the many Soviet Satellites that followed "Big Brothers" lead in recognizing the State of Israel in 1948. Likewise, after the Six Day War, Poland followed the Soviet lead and withdrew its recognition of the State of Israel and unilaterally broke diplomatic relations. For a period of almost 25 years there were no diplomatic relations between Israel and Poland. As the cold war thawed, a "charge' d' affairs" was appointed in each country as a step towards restoring full diplomatic relations. The next step was the exchange of ambassadors. When Professor Jan Dowgiallo was appointed Poland's first ambassador in 25 years, he also became the first non-communist to represent Poland in Israel. The Polish Foreign Service, like that of the other Soviet Satellites, was staffed with loyal Communist Party members or workers. The selection of ambassadors, when Poland evicted "Big Brother", was complicated by the fact the ambassadors representing Poland were communists. The new regime in Poland decided to select non-communists from academia as its representatives. They selected educators and scientists who had experience living abroad, spoke multiple languages, and were anti-communists or at least not communists. Professor Jan Dowgiallo, a world renown geologist at the Polish Academy of Science, who had served the World Health Organization in North Yemen and the U.N. in India, was selected to serve as his country's ambassador to the Scandinavian countries. Dowgiallo accepted the assignment as an ambassador but elected to serve in Israel and the Foreign Ministry agreed. His stated reasoning was that if he was going to take leave from his research it would have to be a meaningful and challenging assignment...