“No Hope Here”: Stanisław Mackiewicz in the Émigré Tygodnik

This article looks at Stanisław Mackiewicz’s views and journalism in the émigré Tygodnik [The Weekly] from 1954-1956. Originally an organ of the hardliners gathered round the Polish government in exile (aka ‘The Castle’), it gradually toned down its intransigence. Mackiewicz’s position evolved as well. He not only criticized the policies of the West towards Poland but also hit out against his political opponents in exile, accusing them of collaboration with Western intelligence. In 1956 Mackiewicz returned to Poland. Soon afterwards he was able to witness the outbreak of popular protests in Poznań (28 June 1956); he described them in an article which was published by the Tygodnik