1.
GV FLAG BEARERS MARCH
0.09

2.
MV GOMULKA ON DAIS
0.13

3.
MV PEOPLE IN PROCESSION
0.18

4.
CU TOWARDS CAMERA
0.21

5.
CU GOMULKA WAVES
0.23

6.
CU PEOPLE PASS
0.28

7.
CU GOMULKA WAVES
0.30

8.
SV MUSICIANS AND GIRLS
0.35

9.
GV PEOPLE PASS DAIS
0.41

10.
GV PAN. VAST CROWD OUTSIDE MONASTERY AT CZESTOCHOWSKA
0.51

11.
STV CLERGY EMERGE
0.54

12.
GV PAN. CLERGY IN PROCESSION
1.00

13.
CU PEOPLE
1.02

14.
SCU CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI SPEAKS
1.07

15.
LV CLERGY AND CROWD
1.10



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Background: MILLIONS OF POLES YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES AFTER ATTENDING HUGE RALLIES CELEBRATING POLAND'S THOUSAND YEARS OF STATEHOOD AND CHRISTIANITY.

ON SUNDAY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ATTENDED A MARCH IN WARSAW, ATTENDED BY THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE POLISH COMMUNIST PARTY, GOMULKA.

FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS, THOUSANDS OF ROMAN CATHOLICS HAVE BEEN MAKING PILGRIMAGES TO CZESTOCHOWSKA, TO CELEBRATE THE MILLENIUM OF POLISH CHRISTIANITY.

ON JASNA GORA (THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT) WHERE THERE IS AN HISTORIC MONASTERY, THE POLISH PRIMATE, CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI, ON TUESDAY PREACHED A SERMON CALLING FOR POLISH PEOPLE TO FORGIVE THEIR ENEMIES. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS CREATED DEEP CONTROVERSY IN POLAND BY ITS OFFER TO FORGIVE THE GERMAN PEOPLE.

DURING THE SERVICE ON JASNA GORA THE POLISH ROMAN CATHOLIC HEIRARCHY DEDICATED POLAND ANEW TO CHRISTIANITY.

BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY ARE FURTHER RALLIES AND CELEBRATIONS TO MARK THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO IN EUROPE, AND THE RETURN OF THE SILESIAN, POMERANIAN AND MAZURIA REGIONS, FORMERLY GERMAN TO POLAND.