ABSTRACT
The Germans are on the frontier, and in the latest special issue of Kultura Adam Michnik takes up the borderlines of Silesia and other controversial issues. There is, alas, only one exception to the general rule about magazines and journals that are produced by exiles and emigres in the West; for they are almost all invariably inward looking, self-indulgent, fractious, cut off from a faraway homeland. It is not easy to explain when one realizes that its leading spirit, Jerzy Giedroyc, came from a Lithuanian aristocratic background, and Russian remains his only other language for conversation. More than that, he was no popular figure in the first waves of refugees from Poland to the West, for he was very far from being a strong nationalist in the old sense, and indeed in his old prewar magazine Polytika he had shown his international spirit.
