ABSTRACT
The whole family, accompanied by Joseph Retinger, agreed to go and visit the latter’s mother-in-law, only about sixteen miles from Cracow but in Russian Poland. While the writer Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski was still almost unknown to the general public even in England, Poland, as we have seen, was concerned about him in various ways. Even in France the first individuals to take notice of his name and work were Poles. The crossing of the North Sea and the journey across Germany were uneventful. The North Sea had been the scene of several of his sea memories, but he had almost no associations with Germany. The approaches to the station were barricaded with barbed wire; an uninterrupted stream of sick and wounded men passed through the refreshment room.
