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The Soviet Bloc's Answer to European Integration: Catholic Anti-Germanism and the Polish Project of a ‘Catholic-Socialist’ International

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2015

PIOTR H. KOSICKI
PIOTR H. KOSICKI*
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University of Maryland, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA; [email protected]
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Abstract

This article explores an attempt by one Polish organisation – known until 1952 by the name of its weekly journal Dziś i Jutro, thereafter as PAX – to assemble a ‘Catholic-socialist’ international in the decade following the Second World War. This transnational project was predicated on co-operation across the Iron Curtain by Catholic thinkers and activists opposed to the rearmament and incorporation of (West) Germany into an integrated European community. The project's author Wojciech Kętrzyński deployed a discourse of protecting the ‘human person’ based on the prioritisation of global peace. Polish encounters with francophone Catholic activists from across Western Europe – especially with the French journal Esprit – bred serious intellectual engagement across the Iron Curtain at the level of Catholic philosophy and theology. Paradoxically, however, these activists accepted that the dignity of the human person would be best served by transnational anti-Germanism, at the price of complicity with – or outright participation in – Stalinism. The self-styled Catholic-socialist project thus failed, yet, surprisingly, it failed neither immediately nor completely. It thus reveals that possibilities existed throughout the cold war – even at the height of Soviet-bloc Stalinism – for intellectual, cultural and political exchanges and partnerships across the Iron Curtain.

La réponse du bloc soviétique à l’intégration européenne: l’antigermanisme catholique et le projet polonais d’une internationale ‘catholique-socialiste’

Cet article explore la tentative par une organisation polonaise – connue jusqu’en 1952 sous le nom de son hebdomadaire, Dziś i Jutro, puis sous celui de PAX – de mobiliser une Internationale ‘catholique-socialiste’ au cours de la décennie qui a suivi la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Ce projet transnational était fondé sur la coopération entre penseurs et activistes catholiques des deux côtés du rideau de fer opposés au réarmement et à l’incorporation de l’Allemagne (de l’Ouest) dans une communauté européenne intégrée. L’instigateur de ce projet, Wojciech Kętrzyński, a déployé un discours de protection de la ‘personne humaine’ fondé sur le rôle prioritaire de la paix dans le monde. Les rencontres polonaises avec des activistes catholiques francophones de toute l’Europe de l’Ouest, spécialement avec ceux de la revue française Esprit, ont ainsi donné lieu à d’importants échanges intellectuels entre interlocuteurs de part et d’autre du rideau de fer concernant la philosophie et la théologie catholique. Paradoxalement, ces activistes admettaient cependant qu’un antigermanisme transnational était à préconiser pour la dignité de la personne humaine, même si le prix à payer était la complicité avec le stalinisme, ou même la participation au stalinisme. Le projet soi-disant catholique-socialiste fut donc un échec, mais, chose surprenante, ce ne fut ni un échec immédiat, ni un échec total; il montre que tout au long de la Guerre froide – et même au plus fort du stalinisme du bloc soviétique – subsistaient des possibilités d’échanges intellectuels, culturels et politiques et de partenariats par-delà le rideau de fer.

Die antwort des ostblocks auf die europäische integration: katholischer anti-germanismus und das polnische projekt einer ‘katholisch-sozialistischen’ internationale

Dieser Beitrag erforscht den Versuch einer polnischen Organisation – die bis 1952 unter dem Namen ihrer Wochenzeitschrift Dziś i Jutro und anschließend als PAX bekannt war – im ersten Jahrzehnt nach Kriegsende eine ‘katholisch-sozialistische’ Internationale aufzubauen. Das transnationale Projekt gründete sich auf eine Zusammenarbeit von katholischen Denkern und Aktivisten beiderseits des Eisernen Vorhangs, die die Wiederaufrüstung und Einbindung (West-) Deutschlands in eine integrierte europäische Gemeinschaft ablehnten. Der Begründer des Projekts, Wojciech Kętrzyński, beschwor den Schutz der ‘menschlichen Person’ gestützt auf die Vorrangigkeit des Weltfriedens. Begegnungen zwischen den Polen und frankophonen katholischen Aktivisten aus Westeuropa – insbesondere mit der französischen Zeitschrift Esprit – nährten beiderseits des Eisernen Vorhangs eine ernsthafte intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung auf der Ebene katholischer Philosophie und Theologie. Paradoxerweise gingen diese Aktivisten davon aus, dass der Würde der menschlichen Person am besten durch einen transnationalen Anti-Germanismus gedient sei. Dafür nahmen sie eine Komplizenschaft mit dem stalinistischen Regime oder gar eine direkte Beteiligung in Kauf. Das selbststilisierte katholisch-sozialistische Projekt scheiterte daher, doch überraschenderweise weder vollkommen noch sofort. Jedenfalls zeigt es, dass während des Kalten Krieges – selbst auf dem Höhepunkt des Stalinismus im Ostblock – Gelegenheiten zu intellektuellem, kulturellem und politischem Austausch und zu Partnerschaften über den Eisernen Vorhang hinweg bestanden.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 1 - 36
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99 Horodyński to Domenach, 20 Jul. 1953, IMEC ESP2.C1-02.06; Horodyński and Dłuski to Domenach, 26 Sept. 1953, IMEC ESP2.C1-02.06.

100 On Kaczmarek's arrest and show trial, see Śledzianowski, Jan, Ksiądz Czesław Kaczmarek – biskup kielecki 1895–1963 (Kielce: Kuria Diecezjalna, 1991), 225–305Google Scholar.

101 ‘Doniosły zwrot’, Dziś i Jutro, 4 Oct. 1953. On Wyszyński's arrest and Dziś i Jutro/PAX's response to the event, see Kunicki, Between the Brown and the Red, 98–102.

102 Dominik Horodyński, ‘Nous faisons confiance à la France’, Aujourd’hui et demain (Dziś i Jutro), 25 Dec. 1953.

103 Domenach to Horodyński and Dłuski, 5 Jan. 1954, IMEC ESP2.C2-03.02; Domenach to Horodyński and Dłuski, 11 Feb. 1954, IMEC ESP2.C2-03.02. The quotation is drawn from the latter.

104 Krasiński to Domenach, 29 May 1954, AKSCC V/95.

105 Jean-Marie Domenach, Speech on the occasion of the conferral of the Włodzimierz Pietrzak Prize, Dziś i Jutro, 1 Aug. 1954.

106 Domenach to Stanisław Michalski, 2 Jul. 1954, IMEC ESP2.C2-03.02.

107 KOMUNIKAT, ‘Wręczenie Nagrody Pietrzaka’, Dziś i Jutro, 13 Jun. 1954; repr. in Zygmunt Lichniak, ed., Księga o nagrodzie imienia Włodzimierza Pietrzaka (1948–1972) (Warsaw: PAX, 1978), 91. See also Wojciech Kętrzyński, ‘Jean-Marie Domenach’, Dziś i Jutro, 18 Jul. 1954; ‘Jean-Marie Domenach laureatem nagrody im. Wł. Pietrzaka’, Dziś i Jutro, 1 Aug. 1954; Domenach, Speech on the occasion of the conferral of the Włodzimierz Pietrzak Prize.

108 Domenach, Speech on the occasion of the conferral of the Włodzimierz Pietrzak Prize.

109 Khrushchev, N. S., Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004–2007), III, 55–64Google Scholar.

110 See Jean Lacroix, ‘Sens nowoczesnego ateizmu’, Dziś i Jutro, 8 May 1955; Henri Bartoli, ‘O cywilizację pracy’, Dziś i Jutro, 28 Aug. 1955.

111 See, e.g. Henri Bartoli's discussion of logistics for his visit: Bartoli to Wanda Urstein, 22 Sept. 1955, AKSCC V/98.

112 [Untitled front-cover note], Dziś i Jutro, 8 May 1955. The Vienna Appeal was issued by the World Council of Peace on 17–19 Jan. 1955.

113 On the condemnation, see Raina, Peter, Piasecki na indeksie watykańskim: Geneza sprawy (Warsaw: von Borowiecky, 2002)Google Scholar; Kunicki, Between the Brown and the Red, 102–5.

114 Antoni Dudek and Grzegorz Pytel have suggested this also explains Piasecki's abortive project of co-operation with the East German Christians: Antoni Dudek and Pytel, Grzegorz, Bolesław Piasecki: Próba biografii politycznej (London: Aneks, 1990), 212–14Google Scholar.

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116 Kosicki, ‘L’Avènement des intellectuels catholiques’, 40–7.

117 The importance for Domenach of his personal relationships with Krasiński and Kętrzyński is clear in his correspondence from the time justifying his realignment – and his realignment of Esprit – with Więź: Domenach to Krasiński, 7 Jan. 1957, IMEC ESP2.C3-02.06; Domenach to Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 21 Mar. 1958, IMEC ESP2.C3-02.06.

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